| understanding past population dynamics: bayesian coalescent-based modeling with covariates. | effective population size characterizes the genetic variability in a population and is a parameter of paramount importance in population genetics and evolutionary biology. kingman's coalescent process enables inference of past population dynamics directly from molecular sequence data, and researchers have developed a number of flexible coalescent-based models for bayesian nonparametric estimation of the effective population size as a function of time. major goals of demographic reconstruction in ... | 2016 | 27368344 |