Entries from 2009-08-01 to 1 month

coalescent with epistasis

Takahasi KR 2009 Coalescent under the evolution of coadaptation. Mol Ecol, in press. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04424.x

missing heritability

Slatkin M 2009 Epigenetic inheritance and the missing heritability problem. Genetics 182:845-850. the solution to the problem of missing heritability is not necessarily the same as the solution to the problem of missing causality as has be…

cis versus trans effects

Zhang X & Borevitz JO 2009 Global analysis of allele-specific expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 182:943-954. in a single hybrid pair, cis variation is not tested across segregating trans backgrounds thus, the cis × trans effect …

cis versus trans effects

Graze RM, McIntyre LM, Main BJ, Wayne ML & Nuzhdin SV 2009 Regulatory divergence in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans, a genome-wide analysis of allele-specific expression. Genetics, in press. doi:10.1534/genetics.109.105957 variatio…

cis versus trans effects

Nuzhdin SV, Tufts DM & Hahn MW 2008 Abundant genetic variation in transcript level during early Drosophila development. Evol Dev 10:683-689. one standard interpretation of our results finding a small number of factors for both the segmenta…

systems genetics

Mackay TFC, Stone EA & Ayroles JF 2009 The genetics of quantitative traits: challenges and prospects. Nat Rev Genet 10:565-577. a list of all genes and QTNs associated with quantitative traits is just that a list, devoid of biological cont…

population history

Wall JD, Lohmueller KE & Plagnol V 2009 Detecting ancient admixture and estimating demographic parameters in multiple human populations. Mol Biol Evol 26:1823-1827. our analysis also corrects a misuse of the popular coalescent simulator ms…

preferential mating

Tinghitella RM & Zuk M 2009 Asymmetric mating preferences accommodated the rapid evolutionary loss of a sexual signal. Evolution 63:2087-2098. for a sexual signal to change, the change must be favorable for the signaler, but must also be a…

preferential mating

Greenspoon PB & Otto SP 2009 Evolution by Fisherian sexual selection in diploids. Evolution 63:1076-1083. the female preference must reach a threshold frequency, perhaps through genetic drift, before a runaway can occur when the rare male …

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multilocus balancing selection

Navarro A & Barton NH 2002 The effects of multilocus balancing selection on neutral viability. Genetics 161:849-863. forward simulations are probably the most straightforward method (Barton & Navarro 2002) we aim to focus on qualitative re…

coalescent with epistasis

Barton NH & Navarro A 2002 Extending the coalescent to multilocus systems: the case of balancing selection. Genet Res 79:129-139. structured coalescent approach breaks down when the number of backgrounds approaches the population size beca…

coalescent with epistasis

Kelly JK & Wade MJ 2000 Molecular evolution near a two-locus balanced polymorphism. J Theor Biol 204:83-101. the three loci are sufficiently close so that at most one recombination event in the region spanning A, B, and C is possible per g…

population history

Lohmueller KE, Bustamante CD & Clark AG 2009 Methods for human demographic inference using haplotype patterns from genomewide single-nucleotide polymorphism data. Genetics 182:217-231.

modularity

Kashtan N, Parter M, Dekel E, Mayo AE & Alon U 2009 Extinctions in heterogeneous environments and the evolution of modularity. Evolution 63:1964-1975. in the absence of extinction events, the evolved computational networks are typically hi…

recombination & sex

Agrawal AF 2009 Differences between selection on sex versus recombination in Red Queen models with diploid hosts. Evolution 63:2131-2141. sex and recombination are not equivalent in diploids because selection on sex depends on the conseque…

random inbreeding

Yasuda N & Furusho T 1971 Random and nonrandom inbreeding revealed from isonymy study. I. Small cities of Japan. Am J Hum Genet 23:303-316.

population history

McNally KL, Childs KL, Bohnert R, Davidson RM, Zhao K, Ulart VJ, Zeller G, Clark RM, Hoen DR, Bureau TE, Stokowski R, Ballinger DG, Frazer KA, Cox DR, Padhukasahasram B, Bustamante CD, Weigel D, Mackill DJ, Bruskiewich RM, Rätsch G, Buell …

positive epistasis

Trindade S, Sousa A, Xavier KB, Dionisio F, Ferreira MG & Gordo I 2009 Positive epistasis drives the acquisition of multidrug resistance. PLoS Genet 5:e1000578. while epistasis between gene deletions has been the focus of recent research, …

mutational robustness & genome architecture

Keller PJ & Knop M 2009 Evolution of mutational robustness in the yeast genome: a link to essential genes and meiotic recombination hotspots. PLoS Genet 5:e1000533 in budding yeast, a prominent genome-wide enrichment of essential genes has…

disease resistance

Yoshida K & Miyashita NT 2009 DNA polymorphism in the blast disease resistance gene Pita of the wild rice Oryza rufipogon and its related species. Genes Genet Systems 84:121-136.

emergence of large-scale pattern

Frank SA 2009 The common patterns of nature. J Evol Biol 22:1563-1585. aggregation of processes that preserves information only about the mean and variance attracts to the Gaussian pattern aggregation that preserves information only about …