Entries from 2011-04-01 to 1 month

sweeps at linked loci

Hartfield M & Otto SP 2011 Recombination and hitchhiking of deleterious alleles. Evolution, in press. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01311.x once established, the frequency of A1B1 can be modeled by the standard deterministic equation for ha…

weak selection

Rousset F & Lion S 2011 Much ado about nothing: Nowak et al.'s charge against inclusive fitness theory. J Evol Biol, in press. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02251.x some limitations ascribed to inclusive fitness are actually limitations of …

weak selection

Lion S, Jansen VAA & Day T 2011 Evolution in structured populations: beyond the kin versus group debate. TREE 26:193-201. biological assumptions the parallel between the MS and IF methodologies is sometimes obfuscated because many practiti…

genetic purging

Bouzat JL 2010 Conservation genetics of population bottlenecks: the role of chance, selection, and history. Conserv Genet 11:463-478. it has been commonly accepted that purging is a very unlikely process in small populations purging using …