Entries from 2011-01-01 to 1 month

polygenic adaptation

Casto AM & Feldman MW 2011 Genome-wide association study SNPs in the Human Genome Diversity Project populations: does selection affect unlinked SNPs with shared trait associations? PLoS Genet 7:e1001226. given the polygenic nature of compl…

mutational robustness

Rajon E & Masel J 2011 Evolution of molecular error rates and the consequences for evolvability. PNAS 108:1082-1087. there are two ways to handle the dangers posed by errors one is to avoid making errors this is normally a global solution …

landscape genetics

Segelbacher G, Cushman SA, Epperson BK, Fortin M-J, Francois O, Hardy OJ, Holderegger R & Manel S 2010 Applications of landscape genetics in conservation biology: concepts and challenges. Conserv Genet 11:375-385. landscape genetics has de…

12th Population Genetics Meeting in Hayama (till 18th Jan, 2011)

deleterious mutation

Subramanian S 2011 High proportions of deleterious polymorphisms in constrained human genes. Mol Biol Evol 28:49-52. genome-wide estimates using >14,000 human-chimp nuclear genes and 1 million SNPs from four human genomes showed a signific…

PPR

Fujii S, Bond CS & Small ID 2011 Selection patterns on restorer-like genes reveal a conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes throughout angiosperm evolution. PNAS, in press. doi:10.1073/pnas.1007667108 most angiosperms for which …

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retroposition

Szcześniak MW, Ciomborowska J, Nowak W, Rogozin IB & Makałowska I 2011 Primate and rodent specific intron gains and the origin of retrogenes with splice variants. Mol Biol Evol 28:33-37. many genome-wide comparisons of eukaryotic species d…