Pritchard JK, Pickrell JK & Coop G 2010 The genetics of human adaptation: hard sweeps, soft sweeps, and polygenic adaptation. Curr Biol 20:R208-R215. most of the recent literature in human population genetics focuses on models of selection…

Hohenlohe PA, Bassham S, Etter PD, Stiffler N, Johnson EA & Cresko WA 2010 Population genomics of parallel adaptation in threespine stickleback using sequenced RAD tags. PLoS Genet 6:e1000862. the parallel evolution appears to occur mostly…

Hermisson J & Pfaffelhuber P 2008 The pattern of genetic hitchhiking under recurrent mutation. Electron J Prob 13:2069-2106. a soft sweep has highly characteristic features, such as a more pronounced pattern of linkage disequilibrium as co…

Leimu R & Fischer M 2008 A meta-analysis of local adaptation in plants. PLoS ONE 3:e4010. we found local adaptation much more common for large plant populations (>1000 flowering individuals) than for small populations ( the much lower like…

Bradley RK, Li X-Y, Trapnell C, Davidson S, Pachter L, Chu HC, Tonkin LA, Biggin MD & Eisen MB 2010 Binding site turnover produces pervasive quantitative changes in transcription factor binding between closely related Drosophila species. P…

Nordborg M, Hu TT, Ishino Y, Jhaveri J, Toomajian C, Zheng H, Bakker E, Calabrese P, Gladstone J, Goyal R, Jakobsson M, Kim S, Morozov Y, Padhukasahasram B, Plagnol V, Rosenberg NA, Shah C, Wall JD, Wang J, Zhao K, Kalbfleisch T, Schulz V,…

Lascoux M & Petit RJ 2010 The 'New Wave' in plant demographic inference: more loci and more individuals. Mol Ecol 19:1075-1078. Instruct is an extension of Structure that eliminates the assumption of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium within clust…

Gao H, Williamson S & Bustamante CD 2007 Markov chain Monte Carlo approach for joint inference of population structure and inbreeding rates from multilocus genotype data. Genetics 176:1635-1651. we extend the popular Bayesian clustering ap…

Charlesworth B 2008 The origin of genomes − not by natural selection? Curr Biol 18:R140-R141. review of: Lynch M 2007 The origins of genome architecture. Sinauer. ISBN:9780878934843 the most important features of genomes, especially of euk…

Bromham L 2009 Does nothing in evolution make sense except in the light of population genetics? Biol Phil 24:387-403. review of: Lynch M 2007 The origins of genome architecture. Sinauer. ISBN:9780878934843 if you want to understand biologi…

Kiester AR, Lande R & Schemske DW 1984 Models of coevolution and speciation in plants and their pollinators. Am Nat 124:220-243. random genetic drift in each species produces stochastic coevolutionary forces on the other species rapid dive…

Nielsen EE, Hemmer-Hansen J, Larsen PF & Bekkevold D 2009 Population genomics of marine fishes: identifying adaptive variation in space and time. Mol Ecol 18:3128-3150. despite 40 years of research effort, good examples of genetic polymorp…

Ellison CK & Burton RS 2010 Cytonuclear conflict in interpopulation hybrids: the role of RNA polymerase in mtDNA transcription and replication. J Evol Biol 23:528-538. depending on the mitonuclear genotype, hybridization may disrupt the no…

Knowles LL 2009 Statistical phylogeography. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 40:593-612. the spread of phylogeography's integrative tradition to analyses of non-neutral variation is becoming increasingly evident a virtually untested, yet critically…

McCauley DE & Olson MS 2008 Do recent findings in plant mitochondrial molecular and population genetics have implications for the study of gynodioecy and cytonuclear conflict? Evolution 62:1013-1025. evidence suggests that nonmaternal inhe…

Hanson MR & Bentolila S 2004 Interactions of mitochondrial and nuclear genes that affect male gametophyte development. Plant Cell 16:S154-S169. although non-Mendelian traits in plants could be encoded by either cytoplasmic genome, in all c…

Gerke J, Lorenz K, Ramnarine S & Cohen B 2010 Gene-environment interactions at nucleotide resolution. PLoS Genet 6:e1001144. variation in sporulation efficiency is shaped largely by genetic and environmental interactions we find clear exam…

Gertz J, Gerke JP & Cohen BA 2010 Epistasis in a quantitative trait captured by a molecular model of transcription factor interactions. Theor Popul Biol 77:1-5.

Gerke J, Lorenz K & Cohen B 2009 Genetic interactions between transcription factors cause natural variation in yeast. Science 323:498-501. natural variation in the efficiency of sporulation, the program in yeast that initiates the sexual p…

Mackay TFC 2009 Mutations and quantitative genetic variation: lessons from Drosophila. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 365:1229-1239. classical variance component analyses generally show little, if any, contribution of epistatic interactions to th…

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Le Corre V & Kremer A 2003 Genetic variability at neutral markers, quantitative trait loci and trait in a subdivided population under selection. Genetics 164:1205-1219. a quantitative model with additive effects was used to link genotypes …