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Erik D. Nelson

Howard Hughes Medical InstituteORCID 0000-0001-8345-227XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Organism:human· 1

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Nick V. GrishiniD· 1 shared

Activity by Year

2019-2024 · peak 1/yr

2 papers

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EcologyTheoretical EcologyPeer-reviewedJul 19, 2024

Neutral speciation in realistic populations

Erik D. Nelson

The paper develops a neutral speciation model with realistic dispersal for butterflies, showing speciation occurs under realistic conditions and exhibits scaling behavior.

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bacteria (other)statistical model

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GeneticsGenesPeer-reviewedApr 8, 2019

How often do Protein Genes Navigate Valleys of Low Fitness?

Erik D. Nelson, Nick V. Grishin

The paper estimates the probability that protein genes navigate fitness valleys during human evolution, finding that small protein motifs cross valleys of depth 2Ns ≳ 30 with probability ≳ 0.1.

1 citation

humanstatistical model

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