Noemi Kurt

TL;DR: The seed-bank coalescent "does not come down from infinity," and the time to the most recent common ancestor of a sample of size $n$ grows like $\log\log n$, in line with the empirical observation that seed-banks drastically increase genetic variability in a population and indicates how they may serve as a buffer against other evolutionary forces such as genetic drift and selection.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new model for seed banks, where direct ancestors of individuals may have lived in the near as well as the very far past, is presented, and the ancestral process converges to a time-changed Kingman coalescent, while in the case of infinite mean, ancestral lineages might not merge at all with positive probability.

TL;DR: The seed-bank coalescent as discussed by the authors describes the gene genealogy of populations under the influence of a strong seedbank effect, where "dormant forms" of individuals (such as seeds or spores) may jump a significant number of generations before joining the active population.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the presence of a large seedbank considerably alters the distribution of some distance statistics, as well as the site-frequency spectrum, and one should be able to detect from genetic data the existence of aLarge seedbank in natural populations.