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Bayesian Inference of Natural Selection from Allele Frequency Time Series by Schraiber, Joshua G, Evans, Steven N, Slatkin, Montgomery

“…The advent of accessible ancient DNA technology now allows the direct ascertainment of allele frequencies in ancestral populations, thereby enabling the use of…”
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age-specific force of natural selection and biodemographic walls of death by Wachter, Kenneth W., Evans, Steven N., Steinsaltz, David

“…W. D. Hamilton’s celebrated formula for the age-specific force of natural selection furnishes predictions for senescent mortality due to mutation accumulation,…”
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Edge principal components and squash clustering: using the special structure of phylogenetic placement data for sample comparison by Matsen, 4th, Frederick A, Evans, Steven N

“…Principal components analysis (PCA) and hierarchical clustering are two of the most heavily used techniques for analyzing the differences between nucleic acid…”
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Evolutionary shaping of demographic schedules by Wachter, Kenneth W., Steinsaltz, David, Evans, Steven N.

“…Evolutionary processes of natural selection may be expected to leave their mark on age patterns of survival and reproduction. Demographic theory includes three…”
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The semigroup of metric measure spaces and its infinitely divisible probability measures by EVANS, STEVEN N., MOLCHANOV, ILYA

“…inter alia, establishing that there are no infinitely divisible elements and that each element has a unique factorization into prime elements…”
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Shape-based peak identification for ChIP-Seq by Hower, Valerie, Evans, Steven N, Pachter, Lior

“…The identification of binding targets for proteins using ChIP-Seq has gained popularity as an alternative to ChIP-chip. Sequencing can, in principle, eliminate…”
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Analysis and rejection sampling of Wright–Fisher diffusion bridges by Schraiber, Joshua G., Griffiths, Robert C., Evans, Steven N.

“…We investigate the properties of a Wright–Fisher diffusion process starting at frequency x at time 0 and conditioned to be at frequency y at time T. Such a…”
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Correction: Edge Principal Components and Squash Clustering: Using the Special Structure of Phylogenetic Placement Data for Sample Comparison by Matsen IV, Frederick A., Evans, Steven N.

“…Images for Figures 2 and 3 were incorrectly switched. Citation: Matsen IV FA, Evans SN (2013) Correction: Edge Principal Components and Squash Clustering:…”
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Quasistationary distributions for one-dimensional diffusions with killing by Steinsaltz, David, Evans, Steven N.

“…We extend some results on the convergence of one-dimensional diffusions killed at the boundary, conditioned on extended survival, to the case of general…”
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Transcriptional regulation: effects of promoter proximal pausing on speed, synchrony and reliability by Boettiger, Alistair N, Ralph, Peter L, Evans, Steven N

“…Recent whole genome polymerase binding assays in the Drosophila embryo have shown that a substantial proportion of uninduced genes have pre-assembled RNA…”
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Coverage statistics for sequence census methods by Evans, Steven N, Hower, Valerie, Pachter, Lior

“…We study the statistical properties of fragment coverage in genome sequencing experiments. In an extension of the classic Lander-Waterman model, we consider…”
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Estimating allele age and selection coefficient from time-serial data by Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Malaspinas, Orestis, Evans, Steven N, Slatkin, Montgomery

“…Recent advances in sequencing technologies have made available an ever-increasing amount of ancient genomic data. In particular, it is now possible to target…”
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Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics by DeWitt, William S., Evans, Steven N., Hiesmayr, Ella, Hummel, Sebastian

“…Multi-type birth–death processes underlie approaches for inferring evolutionary dynamics from phylogenetic trees across biological scales, ranging from…”
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Protected polymorphisms and evolutionary stability of patch-selection strategies in stochastic environments by Evans, Steven N., Hening, Alexandru, Schreiber, Sebastian J.

“…We consider a population living in a patchy environment that varies stochastically in space and time. The population is composed of two morphs (that is,…”
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The phylogenetic Kantorovich-Rubinstein metric for environmental sequence samples by Evans, Steven N., Matsen, Frederick A.

“…It is now common to survey microbial communities by sequencing nucleic acid material extracted in bulk from a given environment. Comparative methods are needed…”
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Stochastic population growth in spatially heterogeneous environments by Evans, Steven N., Ralph, Peter L., Schreiber, Sebastian J., Sen, Arnab

“…Classical ecological theory predicts that environmental stochasticity increases extinction risk by reducing the average per-capita growth rate of populations…”
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Polar Decomposition of Scale-Homogeneous Measures with Application to Lévy Measures of Strictly Stable Laws by Evans, Steven N., Molchanov, Ilya

“…A scaling on some space is a measurable action of the group of positive real numbers. A measure on a measurable space equipped with a scaling is said to be α…”
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Addressing Polymorphism in Linguistic Phylogenetics by Canby, Marc E., Evans, Steven N., Ringe, Donald, Warnow, Tandy

“…Understanding how languages change is important not only for the reconstruction of protolanguages and for estimating diversification dates (i.e. the dates when…”
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DOOB–MARTIN BOUNDARY OF RÉMY'S TREE GROWTH CHAIN by Evans, Steven N., Grübel, Rudolf, Wakolbinger, Anton

“…Rémy's algorithm is a Markov chain that iteratively generates a sequence of random trees in such a way that the nth tree is uniformly distributed over the set…”
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Ubiquity of synonymity: almost all large binary trees are not uniquely identified by their spectra or their immanantal polynomials by Matsen, Frederick A, Evans, Steven N

“…There are several common ways to encode a tree as a matrix, such as the adjacency matrix, the Laplacian matrix (that is, the infinitesimal generator of the…”
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