Entries from 2010-12-01 to 1 month

compensatory evolution

Denver DR, Howe DK, Wilhelm LJ, Palmer CA, Anderson JL, Stein KC, Phillips PC & Estes S 2010 Selective sweeps and parallel mutation in the adaptive recovery from deleterious mutation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genome Res 20:1663-1671. DNA …

multilocus sampling theory

Paul JS & Song YS 2010 A principled approach to deriving approximate conditional sampling distributions in population genetics models with recombination. Genetics 186:321-338.

two-locus sampling theory

Jenkins PA & Song YS 2010 An asymptotic sampling formula for the coalescent with recombination. Ann Appl Prob 20:1005-1028.

two-locus importance sampling

Griffiths RC, Jenkins PA & Song YS 2008 Importance sampling and the two-locus model with subdivided population structure. Adv Appl Prob 40:473-500.

plant mitochondria

Hazle T & Bonen L 2007 Comparative analysis of sequences preceding protein-coding mitochondrial genes in flowering plants. Mol Biol Evol 24:1101-1112. we examined the nucleotide sequences preceding 23 mitochondrial protein-coding genes hel…

plant mitochondria

Kubo T & Newton KJ 2008 Angiosperm mitochondrial genomes and mutations. Mitochondrion 8:5-14. the sizes of angiosperm mitochondrial genomes have expanded since plants colonized the land although the genomes have lost some genes during this…

plant mitochondria

Palmer JD, Adams KL, Cho Y, Parkinson CL, Qiu Y-L & Song K 2000 Dynamic evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes: mobile genes and introns and highly variable mutation rates. PNAS 97:6960-6966. we summarize our recent studies showing that …

plant mitochondria

Bafna V & Pevzner PA 1995 Sorting by reversals: genome rearrangements in plant organelles and evolutonary history of X chrmosome. Mol Biol Evol 12:239-246. table 1 presents the results of our program on a series of experimental data by Pal…

plant mitochondria

Palmer JD & Herbon LA 1988 Plant mitochondrial DNA evolves rapidly in structure, but slowly in sequence. J Mol Evol 28:87-97. the rate of rearrangements is extraordinarily faster in plant mtDNA than in cpDNA and animal mtDNA we shall use "…

cis-trans compensation

Kuo D, Licon K, Bandyopadhyay S, Chuang R, Luo C, Catalana J, Ravasi T, Tan K & Ideker T 2010 Coevolution within a transcriptional network by compensatory trans and cis mutations. Genome Res 20:1672-1678. a trans mutation has occurred very…

cis versus trans effects

Emerson JJ, Hsieh L-H, Sung H-M, Wang T-Y, Huang C-J, Lu HH-S, Lu M-YJ, Wu S-H & Li W-H 2010 Natural selection on cis and trans regulation in yeasts. Genome Res 20:826-836. expression polymorphism in yeast is common for both cis and trans …

recombination

Connallon T & Clark AG 2010 Sex linkage, sex-specific selection, and the role of recombination in the evolution of sexually dimorphic gene expression. Evolution 64:3417-42.

mutation

Charlesworth B 2010 Molecular population genomics: a short history. Genet Res 92:397-411. it is interesting to note that Alan Robertson and Bill Hill (Robertson & Hill, 1983) used the results of Orkin et al. (1982) to infer that the mean n…