Bob Week

This paper develops a population-genetics model to study how host-associated microbes can assist in population rescue during environmental change, identifying two microbial contributions that shape rescue outcomes.

This paper develops a stochastic framework for modeling multivariate trait evolution, showing drift causes directional shifts in genetic covariance matrices, contrasting with common assumptions.

The paper extends quantitative genetic theory to include host-associated microbes as factors influencing phenotypic variation and demonstrates how microbiome-mediated responses to selection can arise from various transmission modes.

This paper introduces a mathematical model to study how microbiome inheritance affects host trait evolution, finding that transmission mode has no effect on trait dynamics if microbiomes are passed between generations.