Academia Biology recently published a paper by Blyth Institute research director Jonathan Bartlett. The paper, titled “Alternate mutation modalities in models of population dynamics,” covers the way that new discoveries in mutation theory mean that the way that we model population dynamics needs to change as well. Since “random mutations” are no longer the primary way in which mutations are known to originate, alternate modalities of mutation need to be described and modeled. The paper describes multiple mutation modalities that reflect what is being found experimentally, and shows how such modalities can be modeled mathematically and computationally.

The Blyth Institute was glad to be an invited contributor to this journal. This paper was the result of an invitation from the journal to help grow Academia Biology‘s “Computational and Theoretical Biology” section.