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ArticlePNAS nexus2025

Maintaining diversity in structured populations.

David A Brewster, Jakub Svoboda, Dylan Roscow, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Josef Tkadlec, Martin A Nowak

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Article in PNAS nexus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mixed updating in structured populations.PLoS computational biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

David A BrewsterJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02134, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9776-4343
Jakub SvobodaInstitute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1419-3267
Dylan RoscowDepartment of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Krishnendu ChatterjeeInstitute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4561-241X
Josef TkadlecComputer Science Institute, Charles University, Prague 116 36, Czech Republic.
Martin A NowakDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5489-0908

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examine population structures for their ability to maintain diversity in neutral evolution. We use the general framework of evolutionary graph theory and consider birth-death (bd) and death-birth (db) updating. The population is of size

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diversityevolutionary dynamicsgraphsmoran processrandom walk

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PMID40838023
PMCPMC12363668

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