Steve Krone: Research by Subject

Most of this work was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Theoretical Population Genetics

1. Coalescent Theory

  • On the Meaning and Existence of an Effective Population Size
    (with P. Sjödin, I. Kaj, M. Lascoux, M. Nordborg). Genetics (2005) 169, 1061-1070.
    abstract | pdf

  • The Coalescent Process in a Population with Stochastically Varying Size
    (with I. Kaj). Journal of Applied Probability (2003) 40, 33-48.
    abstract | pdf

  • Separation of Time Scales and Convergence to the Coalescent in Structured Populations
    (with M. Nordborg). (2002) In Modern Developments in Theoretical Population Genetics, pp. 194-232, M. Slatkin and M. Veuille, editors. Oxford University Press.
    abstract | pdf | ps

  • Coalescent Theory for Seed Bank Models
    (with I. Kaj and M. Lascoux). Journal of Applied Probability (2001) 38, 285-300.
    abstract | pdf | figure 1

  • Ancestral Processes with Selection
    (with C. Neuhauser). Theoretical Population Biology (1997) 51, 210-237.
    abstract | pdf

  • The Genealogy of Samples in Models with Selection
    (with C. Neuhauser). Genetics (1997) 145, 519-534.
    abstract

2. Diffusion Processes

  • When Can One Detect Overdominant Selection in the Infinite Alleles Model?
    (with P. Joyce and T.G. Kurtz). Annals of Applied Probability (2003) 13, 181-212.
    abstract | pdf | dvi

  • Gaussian Limits Associated with the Poisson-Dirichlet Distribution and the Ewens Sampling Formula
    (with P. Joyce and T.G. Kurtz). Annals of Applied Probability (2002) 12, 101-124.
    abstract | pdf

Spatial Models

  • Spatial structure and nutrients promote invasion of IncP-1 plasmids in bacterial populations
    (with R. Fox, X. Zhong, and E.M. Top). The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology (2008) to appear.
    abstract | pdf

  • A Spatially Structured Metapopulation Model to Simulate Microbial Growth and Competition in Saturated Particulate and Porous Environments
    (with S.J. Bent and L.J. Forney). (2008) preprint.
    abstract

  • Space, Time and Host Evolution Facilitate Coexistence of Competing Bacteriophages: Theory and Experiment
    (with L.C. Coberly, W. Wei, K.Y. Sampson, J. Millstein, and H.A. Wichman). (2008) preprint.
    abstract

  • Modeling Phage Plaque Growth
    (with S.T. Abedon). (2008) In Bacteriophage Ecology: Population Growth, Evolution, and Impact of Bacterial Viruses, Cambridge University Press, Abedon, S.T. (ed).

  • Modeling the Spatial Dynamics of Plasmid Transfer and Persistence
    (with R. Lu, R. Fox, H. Suzuki, and E.M. Top). Microbiology (2007) 153, 2803-2816.
    abstract | pdf

  • Analyzing Animal Movements Using Brownian Bridges
    (with J. Horne, E.O. Garton, and J.S. Lewis). Ecology (2007) 88, 2354-2363.
    abstract | pdf | Appendix

  • Spatial Self-Organization in a Cyclic Resource-Species Model
    (with Y. Guan). Journal of Theoretical Biology (2006) 241, 14-25.
    abstract | pdf

  • Spatial Invasion by a Mutant Pathogen
    (with W. Wei). Journal of Theoretical Biology (2005) 236, 335-348.
    abstract | pdf

  • WinSSS: Stochastic Spatial Simulator
    (with Y. Guan) Bulletin of Ecological Society of America (2004) 85, Number 3, 102-104.

  • Spatial Models: Stochastic and Deterministic
    Mathematical and Computer Modelling (2004) 40, 393-409.
    abstract | pdf

  • A Spatial Model of Range-Dependent Succession
    (with C. Neuhauser). Journal of Applied Probability (2000) 37, 1044-1060.
    abstract

  • The Two-Stage Contact Process
    Annals of Applied Probability (1999) 9, 331-351.
    abstract

  • Stepping Stone Models with Extinction and Recolonization
    (with H. Kang and C. Neuhauser). Annals of Applied Probability (1995) 5, 1025-1060.
    abstract

  • A Note on the Stepping Stone Model with Extinction and Recolonization
    (with H. Kang and C. Neuhauser). (1994) In Progress in Population Genetics and Human Evolution. P. Donnelly and S. Tavare, eds. Springer, New York.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo

  • Small-World MCMC and Convergence to Multi-modal Distributions: From Slow Mixing to Fast Mixing
    (with Y. Guan). Annals of Applied Probability (2007) 17, 284-304.
    abstract | pdf

  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Small Worlds
    (with Y. Guan, R. Fleissner, P. Joyce). Statistics and Computing (2006) 16, 193-202.
    abstract | pdf

Random Networks

  • On the Evolution of Structure in Ecological Networks
    (with M. Labrum, T. Soule, A. Blue). Proceedings of International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, to appear.
    abstract | pdf | ps

Measure-Valued Diffusions

  • Representations for Continuous Additive Functionals of Super-Brownian and Super-Stable Processes
    Statistics and Probability Letters (1997) 34, 211-223.
    abstract

  • Comparing Fleming-Viot and Dawson-Watanabe Processes
    (with S.N. Ethier). Stochastic Processes and their Applications (1995) 60, 171-190.
    abstract

  • Conditioned Superprocesses and their Weighted Occupation Times
    Statistics and Probability Letters (1995) 22, 59-69.
    abstract

  • Local Times for Superdiffusions
    Annals of Probability (1993) 21, 1599-1623.

For paper versions of the above, please email me (krone@uidaho.edu).

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