Entries from 2009-01-01 to 1 year

polygenic adaptation

Coop G, Pickrell JK, Novembre J, Kudaravalli S, Li J, Absher D, Myers RM, Cavalli-Sforza LL, Feldman MW & Pritchard JK 2009 The role of geography in human adaptation. PLoS Genet 5:e1000500. there are surprisingly few fixed or nearly fixed …

polygenic adaptation

Goldstein DB & Holsinger KE 1992 Maintenance of polygenic variation in spatially structured populations: roles for local mating and genetic redundancy. Evolution 46:412-429. mutation-selection balance play a role, but there is considerable…

creationism

balancing selection

Andrés AM, Hubisz MJ, Indap A, Torgerson DG, Degenhardt JD, Boyko AR, Gutenkunst RN, White TJ, Green ED, Bustamante CD, Clark AG, Nielsen R 2009 Targets of balancing selection in the human genome. Mol Biol Evol 26:2755-2764. current biolog…

population history

Gutenkunst RN, Hernandez RD, Williamson SH & Bustamante CD 2009 Inferring the joint demographic history of multiple populations from multidimensional SNP frequency data. PLoS Genet 5:e1000695. combining our demographic model with a previou…

modularity

Mao L, Van Hemert JL, Dash S & Dickerson JA 2009 Arabidopsis gene co-expression network and its functional modules. BMC Bioinf 10:346. genes in the same module are co-expressed across diverse conditions suggesting the potential underlying …

two-locus sampling theory

Ethier SN & Griffiths RC 1990 On the two-locus sampling distribution. J Math Biol 29:131-159.

robustness

Martin OC & Wagner A 2009 Effects of recombination on complex regulatory circuits. Genetics 183:673-684. recombination has weaker deleterious effects on the expression phenotypes of these circuits than mutations if a population of such cir…

ecology

Wilson EO 1994 Naturalist. Island Press. ISBN:9781559632887 anyone who would hire an ecologist is out of his mind I don't think we should use 'ecology' as an expression anymore it's become a dirty word when one culture sets out to erase an…

speciation

Burgess R & Yang Z 2008 Estimation of hominoid ancestral population sizes under Bayesian coalescent models incorporating mutation rate variation and sequencing errors. Mol Biol Evol 25:1979-1994. we obtained robust and precise estimates fo…

speciation

Caswell JL, Mallick S, Richter DJ, Neubauer J, Schirmer C, Gnerre S & Reich D 2008 Analysis of chimpanzee history based on genome sequence alignments. PLoS Genet 4:e1000057. bonobos and common chimpanzees were separated ~1,290,000 years ag…

speciation

Caswell JL, Mallick S, Richter DJ, Neubauer J, Schirmer C, Gnerre S & Reich D 2008 Analysis of chimpanzee history based on genome sequence alignments. PLoS Genet 4:e1000057. bonobos and common chimpanzees were separated ~1,290,000 years ag…

evolution & genetics

Charlesworth B & Charlesworth D 2009 Darwin and genetics. Genetics 183:757-766. Mendel's ability to solve the most difficult problem in 19th century biology after the mechanism of evolution rests on his use of a then-unique approach combin…

interview with Brian Charlesworth

Evolution – the Molecular Landscape

CMS

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…

CMS

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…

eSATA

PW12D-SLOT (PC Hotline 091031)

eSATA

SATA2REI3-LPPCI (PC Hotline 051112) / SATA2EI3-LPPCI (PC Hotline 051126) / REX-PCI15PM (PC Hotline 060930) / SATA300 TX4302 (PC Hotline 070407)

CMS

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…

CMS

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…

CMS

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…

CMS

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…

PPR

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…

CMS

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…

FOXP2

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…

mtDNA

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 …

mtDNA

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…

preferential mating

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 …

mutation landscape

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…

cis versus trans effects

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…