Entries from 2009-10-01 to 1 month
Saur Jacobs M & Wade MJ 2003 A synthetic review of the theory of gynodioecy. Am Nat 161:837-851. Charlesworth and Ganders (1979) showed that a cytoplasmic polymorphism could be maintained, in the absence of nuclear restorers, if hermaphrod…
Frank SA 1989 The evolutionary dynamics of cytoplasmic male sterility. Am Nat 133:345-376. Lewis (1941) ... noticed that if male-sterile individuals have a higher fitness through ovules than do hermaphrodites, a cytoplasmic gene causing ma…
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Städler T & Delph LF 2002 Ancient mitochondrial haplotypes and evidence for intragenic recombination in a gynodioecious plant. PNAS 99:11730-11735. genetic exchanges among mitochondrial genomes can occur as nonreciprocal gene conversion, r…
Ingvarsson PK & Taylor DR 2002 Genealogical evidence for epidemics of selfish genes. PNAS 99:11265-11269. evolution of cytoplasmic male sterility has been characterized by frequent turnovers of mutations in natural populations, thus suppor…
Budar F, Touzet P & De Paepe R 2003 The nucleo-mitochondrial conflict in cytoplasmic male sterilities revisited. Genetica 117:3-16. reallocation of resources from pollen to seeds reduces the transmission of nuclear genes because biparental…
McCauley DE & Bailey MF 2009 Recent advances in the study of gynodioecy: the interface of theory and empiricism. Ann Bot 104:611-620. five areas of active inquiry the cost of restoration the influence of population structure on spatial sex…
Foxe JP & Wright SI 2009 Signature of diversifying selection on members of the pentatricopeptide repeat protein (PPR) family in Arabidopsis lyrata. Genetics, in press. doi:10.1534/genetics.109.104778 CMS has been documented in over 150 pla…
Chase CD 2007 Cytoplasmic male sterility: a window to the world of plant mitochondrial-nuclear interactions. Trends Genet 23:81-90. in natural populations, gynodioecy is maintained, in part, through a selective advantage to females showing…
Ptak SE, Enard W, Wiebe V, Hellmann I, Krause J, Lachmann M & Pääbo S 2009 Linkage disequilibrium extends across putative selected sites in FOXP2. Mol Biol Evol 26:2181-2184. the fifth scenario is what the LD and Neandertal data are tellin…
Piganeau G & Eyre-Walker A 2009 Evidence for variation in the effective population size of animal mitochondrial DNA. PLoS ONE 4:e4396. it has recently been shown that levels of diversity in mitochondrial DNA are remarkably constant across …
Galtier N, Nabholz B, Glémin S & Hurst GDD 2009 Mitochondrial DNA as a marker of molecular diversity: a reappraisal. Mol Ecol, in press. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04380.x mitochondrial DNA is not always clonal, far from neutrally evolvi…
Rundle HD, Chenoweth SF & Blows MW 2009 The diversification of mate preferences by natural and sexual selection. J Evol Biol 22:1608-1615. perhaps surprisingly, natural selection in the absence of sexual selection had no consistent effect …
Brown KM, DePristo MA, Weinreich DM & Hartl DL 2009 Temporal constraints on the incorporation of regulatory mutants in evolutionary pathways. Mol Biol Evol 26:2455-2462. regulatory mutations often precede structural ones in enzyme evolutio…
Sung H-M, Wang T-Y, Wang D, Huang Y-S, Wu J-P, Tsai H-K, Tzeng J, Huang C-J, Lee Y-C, Yang P, Hsu J, Chang T, Cho C-Y, Weng L-C, Lee T-C, Chang T-H, Li W-H & Shih M-C 2009 Roles of trans and cis variation in yeast intraspecies evolution of…
Flowers JM, Hanzawa Y, Hall MC, Moore RC & Purugganan MD 2009 Population genomics of the Arabidopsis thaliana flowering time gene network. Mol Biol Evol, in press. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp161 a population genomic study of resequencing data f…
Taylor SJ, Arnold M & Martin NH 2009 The genetic architecture of reproductive isolation in Louisiana irises: hybrid fitness in nature. Evolution 63:2581-2594. a "genic view of speciation" specifically allows for large swaths of the genome …
Strasburg JL & Rieseberg LH 2010 How robust are "Isolation with Migration" analyses to violations of the IM model? A simulation study. Mol Biol Evol, in press. doi:10.1093/molbev/msp233 the effects of a number of violations of the "Isolati…
Dermitzakis ET & Clark AG 2009 Life after GWA studies. Science 326:239-240. genome-wide association findings should be integrated into a wider scope of information, including biological processes and environments the heritability of statur…
Manolio TA, Collins FS, Cox NJ, Goldstein DB, Hindorff LA, Hunter DJ, McCarthy MI, Ramos EM, Cardon LR, Chakravarti A, Cho JH, Guttmacher AE, Kong A, Kruglyak L, Mardis E, Rotimi CN, Slatkin M, David Valle D, Whittemore AS, Boehnke M, Clar…
Chen X, Cho K, Singer BH & Zhang H 2009 Retraction. PNAS 106:17241.Schekman R 2009 PNAS takes action regarding breach of NIH embargo policy on a PNAS paper. PNAS 106:16893.Guttmacher AE, Nabel EG & Collins FS 2009 Why data-sharing policies…
Arthur W 2004 The effect of development on the direction of evolution: toward a twenty-first century consensus. Evol Dev 6:282-288. Gould & Lewontin (1979) ... was a deliberate attempt to provoke a response from the neo-Darwinian school on…
Hayden EC 2009 Genomics shifts focus to rare diseases. Nature 461:458-459. studying the rare stuff because it bears on the common stuff the issue is how we're going to understand the architecture of common disorders three or four years ago…
Holsinger KE & Weir BS 2009 Genetics in geographically structured populations: defining, estimating and interpreting FST. Nat Rev Genet 10:639-650. until Cockerham introduced his indicator formalism10,22, few if any population geneticists …
Carter AJR & Wagner GP 2002 Evolution of functionally conserved enhancers can be accelerated in large populations: a population-genetic model. Proc R Soc Lond B 269:953-960. the rate of evolution by pairs of compensatory mutations increase…
White TD, Asfaw B, Beyene Y, Haile-Selassie Y, Lovejoy CO, Suwa G & WoldeGabriel G 2009 Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids. Science 326:75-86.
Presgraves DC & Yi SV 2009 Doubts about complex speciation between humans and chimpanzees. TREE 24:533-540. there is no discrepancy that requires a lower divergence time (i.e. gene flow) for the X chromosome between humans and chimpanzees