Entries from 2009-01-01 to 1 year
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Otto SP & Whitlock MC 2009 The impact of epistatic selection on the genomic traces of selection. Mol Ecol 18:4985-4987. alleles adapting to a mix of local environments may sometimes be under heterogeneous selection which may act much like …
Zhang J & Rosenberg HF 2002 Complementary advantageous substitutions in the evolution of an antiviral RNase of higher primates. PNAS 99:5486-5491. neutral substitutions are not simply "noises" in protein evolution they may play constructiv…
Wagner GP 2010 The measurement theory of fitness. Evolution, in press. 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00909.x
Dalziel AC, Rogers SM & Schulte PM 2009 Linking genotypes to phenotypes and fitness: how mechanistic biology can inform molecular ecology. Mol Ecol, in press. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04427.x once candidate genes are identified, we arg…
Rice AM & Pfennig DW 2007 Character displacement: in situ evolution of novel phenotypes or sorting of pre-existing variation? J Evol Biol 20:448-459. character displacement transpires when these pre-existing divergent phenotypes increase i…
Bazin E, Glémin S & Galtier N 2006 Response. Science 314:1390. the age of the most recent mtDNA ancestor, in particular, should not be connected to any climatic, geologic, or biotic event unless confirmation is obtained from nuclear markers
Eyre-Walker A 2006 Size does not matter for mitochondrial DNA. Science 312:537-538. if Bazin et al. are correct and the diversity of mitochondrial DNA, and perhaps nuclear DNA, is limited by repeated adaptive substitution, then the rate of…
Kehrer-Sawatzki H & Cooper DN 2008 Divergence between the human and chimpanzee genomes and its impact on protein and transcriptome evolution. Encyclopedia Life Sci a0006115. many members of gene families with multiple paralogues are highly…
Lan T, Yang Z-L, Yang X, Liu Y-J, Wang X-R & Zeng Q-Y 2009 Extensive functional diversification of the Populus glutathione S-transferase supergene family. Plant Cell, in press. doi:10.1105/tpc.109.070219
Krsticevic FJ, Santos HL, Januário S, Schrago CG & Carvalho AB 2010 Functional copies of the Mst77F gene on the Y Chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics, in press. doi:10.1534/genetics.109.107516
Ketterson E 2010 2009 American Society of Naturalists Awards: Sewall Wright Award−Michael J. Wade. Am Nat 175:ii-iii. the dominant view of natural selection has been that population sizes are large, such that genetic drift (chance or sampl…
Whitlock MC & Guillaume F 2009 Testing for spatially divergent selection: comparing QST to FST. Genetics 183:1055-1063. the simulations conducted here all assumed that traits are determined by alleles that interact additively, both between…
Hey J 2010 The divergence of chimpanzee species and subspecies as revealed in multi-population isolation-with-migration analyses. Mol Biol Evol, in press. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp298
Hey J 2010 Isolation with migration models for more than two populations. Mol Biol Evol, in press. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp296 IMa2 Nielsen and Wakeley (2001) developed the first general procedure for estimating population size, migration an…
Pigliucci M 2008 Sewall Wright's adaptive landscapes: 1932 vs. 1988. Biol Philos 23:591-603. it is deeply flawed and may have actually created research questions that are not, in fact, fecund the metaphor is flawed some of the problems whi…
Barton NH, Briggs DEG, Eisen JA, Goldstein DB & Patel NH 2007 Evolution. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN:9780879696849 selection tends to increase mean fitness W, so that populations climb toward peaks in the adaptive landscape i…
Carey CC, Gorman KF & Rutherford S 2006 Modularity and intrinsic evolvability of Hsp90-buffered change. PLoS ONE 1:e76. the relevance of Hsp90-buffered variation for evolution has been most often challenged by the idea that large morpholog…
Milton CC, Ulane CM & Rutherford S 2006 Control of canalization and evolvability by Hsp90. PLoS ONE 1:e75. the extent to which the Hsp90 chaperone also controls smaller and more likely adaptive changes in natural quantitative traits has be…
Escalante AA, Smith DL & Kim Y 2009 The dynamics of mutations associated with anti-malarial drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. Trends Parasitol 25:557-563.
Felsenstein J 2009 Coalescents in full bloom. Evolution 63:3275-3276. review of: Wakeley J 2009 (2008?) Coalescent theory. An introduction. Roberts & Co. ISBN:9780974707754 we should have realized that our paradigm would then change to bei…
Felsenstein J 2001 The troubled growth of statistical phylogenetics. Syst Biol 50:465-467. I used to think that we fought a lot in when I worked in population genetics but in that field we used to sit side by side at meetings without growi…
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Beaumont HJE, Gallie J, Kost C, Ferguson GC & Rainey PB 2009 Experimental evolution of bet hedging. Nature 462:90-93. nine mutations separating 1B4 from the original ancestor were identified confirmed by Sanger sequencing ordered by inspec…
Manicacci D, Camus-Kulandaivelu L, Fourmann M, Arar C, Barrault S, Rousselet A, Feminias N, Consoli L, Francès L, Méchin V, Murigneux A, Prioul J-L, Charcosset A & Damerval C 2009 Epistatic interactions between Opaque2 transcriptional acti…
Steiner CC, Weber JN & Hoekstra HE 2007 Adaptive variation in beach mice produced by two interacting pigmentation genes. PLoS Biol 5:e219. here we identify genetic changes contributing to an adaptive difference in color pattern between two…
Chevin L-M, Bastide H, Montchamp-Moreau C & Hospital F 2009 Molecular signature of epistatic selection: interrogating genetic interactions in the sex-ratio meiotic drive of Drosophila simulans. Genet Res 91:171-182. the linkage disequilibr…
Camus-Kulandaivelu L, Chevin L-M, Tollon-Cordet C, Charcosset A, Manicacci D & Tenaillon MI 2008 Patterns of molecular evolution associated with two selective sweeps in the Tb1-Dwarf8 region in maize. Genetics 180:1107-1121. selection acti…
Chevin L-M, Billiard S & Hospital F 2008 Hitchhiking both ways: effect of two interfering selective sweeps on linked neutral variation. Genetics 180:301-316. we also simulated the sampling of a small number of individuals (2n = 50 gametes)…
Chevin L-M & Hospital F 2008 Selective sweep at a quantitative trait locus in the presence of background genetic variation. Genetics 180:1645-1660. there are two main views of how adaptation occurs as a genetic mechanism the first one, per…