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Alex McAvoy

University of North Carolina at Chapel HillORCID 0000-0002-9110-4635Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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A model for within- and between-host evolution in pathogens

James Crescenzi, Alex McAvoy, Parul Johri

This paper models within- and between-host evolution in pathogens, showing that bottlenecks reduce within-host variation and skew site frequency spectra, suggesting biases in population genetic inference.

bioRxiv · Sep 29, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology