Restoration of eastern oyster populations with positive density dependence.

Positive density dependence (i.e., Allee effects) can create a threshold of population states below which extinction of the population occurs.

The demographic consequences of growing older and bigger in oyster populations.

Structured population models, particularly size- or age-structured, have a long history of informing conservation and natural resource management. While size is often easier to measure than age and is the focus of many management strategies, age-structure can have important effects on population dynamics that are not captured in size-only models. However, relatively few studies have included the simultaneous effects of both age- and size-structure.

A Statistical Approach for Testing Cross-Phenotype Effects of Rare Variants.

Increasing empirical evidence suggests that many genetic variants influence multiple distinct phenotypes. When cross-phenotype effects exist, multivariate association methods that consider pleiotropy are often more powerful than univariate methods that model each phenotype separately. Although several statistical approaches exist for testing cross-phenotype effects for common variants, there is a lack of similar tests for gene-based analysis of rare variants.