Entries from 2011-03-01 to 1 month

deleterious mutation

Agrawal AF & Whitlock MC 2011 Inferences about the distribution of dominance drawn from yeast gene knockout data. Genetics 187:553-566. our approach allows us to quantify, for the first time, the substantial variance and skew in the distri…

inbreeding depression

Facon B, Hufbauer RA, Tayeh A, Loiseau A, Lombaert E, Vitalis R, Guillemaud T, Lundgren JG & Estoup A 2011 Inbreeding depression is purged in the invasive insect Harmonia axyridis. Curr Biol 21:424-427. bottlenecks in population size reduc…

population history

Henn BM, Gignoux CR, Jobin M, Granka JM, Macpherson JM, Kidd JM, Rodríguez-Botigué L, Ramachandran S, Hon L, Brisbin A, Lin AA, Underhill PA, Kidd KK, Norman PJ, Parham P, Bustamante CD, Mountain JL & Feldman MW 2011 Hunter-gatherer genomi…

weak selection

Ohtsuki H 2010 Evolutionary games in Wright's island model: kin selection meets evolutionary game theory. Evolution 64:3344-3353. it has been argued that nonadditivity of social interaction (or termed synergistic effect) is not captured we…

weak selection

Gardner A, West SA & Barton NH 2007 The relation between multilocus population genetics and social evolution theory. Am Nat 169:207-226. recent years have seen the development of a multilocus methodology for modeling evolution at arbitrary…

inclusive fitness

Nowak MA, Tarnita CE & Wilson EO 2011 Nowak et al. reply. Nature 471:E9-E10. the concept of inclusive fitness assumes that the fitness of individuals can be split into additive components caused by individual actions we distinguish between…

adaptive landscape

Ferriere R & Michod RE 2011 Inclusive fitness in evolution. Nature 471:E6-E8. inclusive fitness was developed by Hamilton to summarize a difficult frequency-dependent selection problem by using a simple maximization principle the average i…

weak selection

Abbot P, Abe J, Alcock J, Alizon S, Alpedrinha JA, Andersson M, Andre JB, van Baalen M, Balloux F, Balshine S, Barton N, Beukeboom LW, Biernaskie JM, Bilde T, Borgia G, Breed M, Brown S, Bshary R, Buckling A, Burley NT, Burton-Chellew MN, …

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Gattuso

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mutation pathway

Salverda MLM, Dellus E, Gorter FA, Debets AJM, van der Oost J, Hoekstra RF, Tawfik DS & de Visser JAGM 2011 Initial mutations direct alternative pathways of protein evolution. PLoS Genet 7:e1001321. epistasis can constrain the type and ord…