Entries from 2010-01-01 to 1 month

CMS

Sandhu APS, Abdelnoor RV & Mackenzie SA 2007 Transgenic induction of mitochondrial rearrangements for cytoplasmic male sterility in crop plants. PNAS 104:1766-1770. CMS mutations might not arise de novo in a mitochondrial population at the…

CMS

Delph LF, Touzet P & Bailey MF 2007 Merging theory and mechanism in studies of gynodioecy. TREE 22:17-24. CMS is caused by chimeric genes, formed from segments of other mitochondrial genes as well as from segments of unknown origin these s…

hybridization

Hedge SG, Nason JD, Clegg JM & Ellstrand NC 2006 The evolution of California's wild radish has resulted in the extinction of its progenitors. Evolution 60:1187-1197.

hybridization

Campbell LG & Snow AA 2009 Can feral weeds evolve from cultivated radish (Raphanus sativus, Brassicaceae)? Am J Bot 96:498-502. unharvested crop seeds may generate feral populations, at times causing serious weed problems but little is kno…

hybridization

Ridley CE, Kim S-C & Ellstrand NC 2008 Bidirectional history of hybridization in California wild radish, Raphanus sativus (Brassicaceae), as revealed by chloroplast DNA. Am J Bot 95:1437-1442. cultivated radish and R. raphanistrum shared n…

hybridization

Ridley CE & Ellstrand NC 2010 Rapid evolution of morphology and adaptive life history in the invasive California wild radish (Raphanus sativus) and the implications for management. Evol Appl 3:64-76. early generation Raphanus hybrids quick…

selection versus evolution

Shuker DM 2010 Sexual selection: endless forms or tangled bank? Anim Behav 79:e11-e17. statistical descriptions of genetic change derived from the breeder's equation partition 'selection' from 'heredity' i.e. separating selection from gene…

epistasis

Hurst LD 2000 Epistasis and the evolutionary process. Heredity 85:625-626. review of: Wolf JB, Brodie ED III & Wade MJ, eds. 2000 Epistasis and the evolutionary process. Oxford UP. ISBN:9780195128060 Brodie suggests that Fisher, when analy…

epistasis

Wade MJ 2000 Epistasis as a genetic constraint within populations and an accelerant of adaptive divergence among them. Pages 213-231 in Wolf JB, Brodie ED III & Wade MJ, eds. Epistasis and the evolutionary process. Oxford UP. ISBN:97801951…

selective constraints

Eöry L, Halligan DL & Keightley PD 2010 Distributions of selectively constrained sites and deleterious mutation rates in the hominid and murid genomes. Mol Biol Evol 27:177-192. the level of selective constraint operating in hominid noncod…

deleterious mutation

Lynch M 2010 Rate, molecular spectrum, and consequences of human mutation. PNAS 107:961-968. a consideration of the long-term consequences of current human behavior for deleterious-mutation accumulation leads to the conclusion that a subst…

variance components

Pérez-Figueroa A, Caballero A, García-Dorado A & López-Fanjul C 2009 The action of purifying selection, mutation and drift on fitness epistatic systems. Genetics 183:299-313. our aim was to describe and analyze drift-induced changes in the…

inbreeding depression

García-Dorado A 2008 A simple method to account for natural selection when predicting inbreeding depression. Genetics 180:1559-1566. recently, a simpler method was proposed on the basis of results derived for the mutation–selection–drift b…

inbreeding depression

García-Dorado A 2007 Shortcut predictions for fitness properties at the mutation–selection–drift balance and for its buildup after size reduction under different management strategies. Genetics 176:983-997. the fitness decline is that expe…

deleterious mutation

Chavarrías D, López-Fanjul C & García-Dorado A 2001 The rate of mutation and the homozygous and heterozygous mutational effects for competitive viability: a long-term experiment with Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 158:681-693. the rate …

deleterious mutation

Ávila V & García-Dorado A 2002 The effects of spontaneous mutation on competitive fitness in Drosophila melanogaster. J Evol Biol 15:561-565. the rate of mean log-fitness decline and that of increase of the between-line variance were consi…

deleterious mutation

Charlesworth B, Borthwick H, Bartolomé C & Pignatelli P 2004 Estimates of the genomic mutation rate for detrimental alleles in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 167:815-826. there is a detectable decline in mean viability associated with t…

deleterious mutation

Eyre-Walker A, Woolfit M & Phelps T 2006 The distribution of fitness effects of new deleterious amino acid mutations in humans. Genetics 173:891-900. we present a new method by which the distribution can be estimated the method is fairly r…

deleterious mutation

Fry JD & Nuzhdin SV 2003 Dominance of mutations affecting viability in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 163:1357-1364. we investigated whether transposable element (TE) insertions have higher average dominance for egg-to-adult viability t…

deleterious mutation

Denver DR, Morris K, Lynch M & Thomas WK 2004 High mutation rate and predominance of insertions in the Caenorhabditis elegans nuclear genome. Nature 430:679-672. our sequence-based estimate of Ut (~2.1 mutations per haploid genome per gene…

deleterious mutation

Haag-Liautard C, Dorris M, Maside X, Macaskill S, Halligan DL, Houle D, Charlesworth B & Keightley PD 2007 Direct estimation of per nucleotide and genomic deleterious mutation rates in Drosophila. Nature 445:82-85. from 37 mutation events …

deleterious mutation

Ossowski S, Schneeberger K, Lucas-Lledó JI, Warthmann N, Clark RM, Shaw RG, Weigel D & Lynch M 2010 The rate and molecular spectrum of spontaneous mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 327:92-94. if we assume that only nonsynonymous m…

robustness

Masel J & Siegal ML 2009 Robustness: mechanisms and consequences. Trends Genet 25:395-403. robustness to mutation might have evolved as an adaptation to reduce the effect of mutations as a congruent byproduct of adaptive robustness to envi…

historical inference

Beaumont MA, Nielsen R, Robert C, Hey J, Gaggiotti O, Knowles L, Estoup A, Panchal M, Corander J, Hickerson M, Sisson SA, Fagundes N, Chikhi S, Beerli P, Vitalis R, Cornuet J-M, Huelsenbeck J, Foll M, Yang Z, Rousset F, Balding D & Excoffi…