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Not Just $N_e$ $N_e$-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
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00692

Not Just $N_e$ $N_e$-more: New Applications for SMC from Ecology to Phylogenies
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 method…