Academic Publications

  1. LM BĂ„vik*, RS Mehta*, and DB Weissman. "Fifty shades of greenbeard: robust evolution of altruism based on similarity of complex phenotypes." Proc Roy Soc B Biol Sci 290(2000) (2023):1-8 PDF
  2. RS Mehta, RA Petit III, TD Read, and DB Weissman. "Detecting patterns of accessory genome coevolution in Staphylococcus aureus using data from thousands of bacterial genomes." BMC Bioinformatics 24 (2023):243 PDF
  3. RS Mehta, M Steel, and NA Rosenberg. "The probability of joint monophyly of samples of gene lineages for all species in an arbitrary species tree." J Comp Biol 29(7) (2022):679-703. PDF
  4. RS Mehta and JA Kraus. "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of autotomy." Theor Ecol (2021). PDF
  5. RS Mehta and NA Rosenberg. "Modelling anti-vaccine sentiment as a cultural pathogen." Evol Hum Sci 2 (2020): E21 PDF
  6. RS Mehta, AF Feder, SM Boca, and NA Rosenberg. "The relationship between haplotype-based FST and haplotype length." Genetics 213.1 (2019): 281-295 PDF
  7. DE LaScala-Gruenewald, RS Mehta, Y Liu, and MW Denny. "Sensory perception plays a larger role in foraging efficiency than heavy-tailed movement strategies." Ecol Mod 404 (2019): 69-82. PDF
  8. RS Mehta and NA Rosenberg. "The probability of reciprocal monophyly of gene lineages in three and four species." Theor Popul Biol 129 (2019): 133-147 PDF
  9. RS Mehta, D Bryant, and NA Rosenberg. "The probability of monophyly of a sample of gene lineages on a species tree." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 113.29 (2016): 8002-8009. PDF

The Dish on Science

  1. Quantifying the Effects of Anti-vaccine Sentiment on the Spread of Disease
  2. Linguistic Whodunits
  3. The Supreme Court Through the Eyes of Statistical Mechanics