P. Beerli

Population genetics, phylogeography and gene flow of mainland and island vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) populations: an investigation into mainland-island bat movement

The paper investigates gene flow between mainland and island vampire bat populations in Trinidad, finding genetic distinctness and male-biased gene flow, with implications for rabies virus spread.

Estimating Genome-wide Phylogenies Using Probabilistic Topic Modeling

The paper introduces an alignment-free method using probabilistic topic modeling to infer genome-wide phylogenies and evaluates its performance on simulated and biological datasets.

Geodesics to characterize the phylogenetic landscape

This paper introduces a method to generate and visualize phylogenetic treespace using geodesics, finding high likelihood trees not discovered by traditional methods.

Spread of new mutations through space

This study investigates how population density affects the spread of new mutations through space using simulations, finding that neutral mutations decay over time while advantageous ones spread faster in dense populations.

Population divergence time estimation using individual lineage label switching

The paper introduces a Bayesian method for estimating population divergence times using lineage splitting events and evaluates its accuracy with simulations and Zika virus data.

The fractional coalescent

The paper introduces the fractional coalescent (f-coalescent), a new coalescent model that generalizes the Kingman n-coalescent, showing improved model fit in simulations and real datasets.