The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes Mutations are fundamental for evolution, and their mathematical modelling in population genetics heavily relies on our perception of their frequency and the timescale over which they occur. A comm...

Glad to see this out today in MEE!
The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes
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Glad to present my work on the implications of different mutation models in #popgen and #phylo inference at #PopGroup58 in Sheffield (even tried my hand at cèilidh dancing). Kudos to the organizers for this excellent meeting! #statsstandrews