Entries from 2009-12-01 to 1 month

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epistatic selection

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 …

Dykhuizen-Hartl effect

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…

epistasis

Wagner GP 2010 The measurement theory of fitness. Evolution, in press. 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00909.x

molecular adaptation

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…

standing variation

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…

standing variation

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

standing variation

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…

gene duplication

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…

gene duplication

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

gene duplication

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

Sewall Wright

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…

QST

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…

population history

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

population history

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…

adaptive landscape

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…