Ailene MacPherson

This study investigates how intergenomic epistasis affects endpoint repeatability in coevolving species, finding high repeatability within landscapes but varying fitness outcomes across landscapes.

This paper shows that cyclic pathogen epidemics can drive the evolution of delayed germination as a bet-hedging strategy against biotic variability.

The paper develops a stage-structured population model to explain masting reproduction, showing it produces masting-like patterns and compares it to resource budget models and empirical data.

This paper explores the use of tree size in phylodynamic inference, showing it provides additional insights for diversification questions not captured by shape or branch lengths alone.

This study investigates whether local adaptation of life-history traits can occur in a seasonal environment through mathematical modeling of population dynamics under different seasonal perturbations.

This study introduces SAASI, a method that improves ancestral state inference by accounting for sampling bias, and demonstrates its effectiveness in reconstructing H5N1 virus transmission in the US.

The paper derives a closed-form expression for clade size distribution under the Kingman coalescent model and extends it to time-varying niche numbers.