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ReviewGenome biology and evolution2026

Not Just Ne  Ne-More: New Applications for SMC from Ecology to Phylogenies.

David Peede, Trevor Cousins, Arun Durvasula, Anastasia Ignatieva, Toby G L Kovacs, Alba Nieto, Emily E Puckett, Elizabeth T Chevy

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Review in Genome biology and evolution, 2026. 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

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

David PeedeDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4826-0464
Trevor CousinsDepartment of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0428-9345
Arun DurvasulaDivision of Epidemiology, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0631-3238
Anastasia IgnatievaDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6402-9396
Toby G L KovacsSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5322-7928
Alba NietoInstitut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université des Antilles, 75005 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0748-8945
Emily E PuckettDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38111, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9325-4629
Elizabeth T ChevyDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2279-6129

Funding

Predoctoral Training Program in Biological Data Science at Brown UniversityT32GM128596 · NIGMS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI RAMACHANDRAN, SOHINI, SANDSTEDE, BJORN · 2018 to 2022
$1.5M
Leveraging diverse ancestry and environmental variables to understand the evolution and architecture of complex traitsR35GM160467 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Arun Durvasula · 2025 to 2026
$827k
Blavatnik Family Foundation Graduate FellowshipBrown University Predoctoral Training Program in Biological Data ScienceHorizon 2020Marie Skłodowska-Curie 945304NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM160467NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM128596NIH HHS R35GM160467NIH HHS T32 GM128596University of Southern California
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genomes contain the mutational footprint of an organism's evolutionary history, shaped by diverse forces including ecological factors, selective pressures, and life history traits. The sequentially Markovian coalescent (SMC) is a versatile and tractable model for the genetic genealogy of a sample of genomes, which captures this shared history. Methods that utilize the SMC, such as PSMC and MSMC, have been widely used in evolution and ecology to infer demographic histories. However, these methods ignore common biological features, such as gene flow events and structural variation. Recently, there have been several advancements that widen the applicability of SMC-based methods: inclusion of an isolation with migration model, integration with the multi-species coalescent, incorporation of ecological life history traits (such as selfing and dormancy), and many computational advances in applying these models to data. We give an overview of the SMC model and its various recent extensions, discuss examples of biological discoveries through SMC-based inference, and comment on the assumptions, benefits and drawbacks of various methods.

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Models, GeneticPhylogenyAnimalsEcologyEvolution, MolecularGene FlowGenomeMarkov ChainsARG reconstructionconservation biologydemographic inferencegene flowsequentially Markovian coalescent

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PMID41315008
PMCPMC12770822

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