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Frank SA 2012 Natural selection. V. How to read the fundamental equations of evolutionary change in terms of information theory. J Evol Biol 25:2377-2396. the variance in fitness is equivalent to a symmetric form of the Kullback–Leibler in…
Granka JM, Henn BM, Gignoux CR, Kidd JM, Bustamante CD & Feldman MW 2012 Limited evidence for classic selective sweeps in African populations. Genetics 182:1049-1064. the absence of observed genic enrichment for highly differentiated polym…
Peter BM, Huerta-Sanchez E & Nielsen R 2012 Distinguishing between selective sweeps from standing variation and from a de novo mutation. PLoS Genet 8:e1003011. selection acts only to change the allele frequency in the selected site the eff…
Pavlidis P, Jensen JD, Stephan W & Stamatakis A 2012 A critical assessment of storytelling: gene ontology categories and the importance of validating genomic scans. Mol Evol Biol 29:3237-3248. a disadvantage of using empirical distribution…
Breen MS, Kemena C, Vlasov PK, Notredame C & Kondrashov FA 2012 Epistasis as the primary factor in molecular evolution. Nature 490:535-538. epistasis—nonlinear genetic interactions between polymorphic loci an epistatic perspective of molec…
Huang W, Richards S, Carbone MA, Zhu D, Anholt RRH, Ayroles JF, Duncan L, Jordan KW, Lawrence F, Magwire MM, Warner CB, Blankenburg K, Han Y, Javaid M, Jayaseelan J, Jhangiani SN, Muzny D, Ongeri F, Perales L, Wu Y-Q, Zhang Y, Zou X, Stone…
Kuijper B, Pen I & Weissing FJ 2012 A guide to sexual selection theory. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 43:287-311. 2.3. Invasion Analysis quantitative genetics is based on the assumption that a continuous distribution of phenotypes (and typically…
Lohse K, Barton NH, Melika G & Stone GN 2012 A likelihood-based comparison of population histories in a parasitoid guild. Mol Ecol 21:4605-4617. if we want to actually test how concordant spatial histories are between species, we need a st…
Sankararaman S, Patterson N, Li H, Pääbo S & Reich D 2012 The date of interbreeding between Neandertals and modern humans. PLoS Genet 8:e1002947. Neandertals share more genetic variants with non-Africans than with Africans this could be du…
Eriksson A & Manica A 2012 Effect of ancient population structure on the degree of polymorphism shared between modern human populations and ancient hominins. PNAS 109:13956-12960. the excess polymorphism shared between Eurasians and Neande…
Pinho C & Hey J 2010 Divergence with gene flow: models and data. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 41:215-230. gene flow mapping: identifying targets of disruptive selection by studying gene flow if it is found that gene flow has occurred, then the …
Sousa VC, Grelaud A & Hey J 2011 On the nonidentifiability of migration time estimates in isolation with migration models. Mol Ecol 20:3956-3962. some conclusions of previous studies that draw upon the posterior distribution for times of m…
Yang MA, Malaspinas A-S, Durand EY & Slatkin M 2012 Ancient structure in Africa unlikely to explain Neanderthal and non-African genetic similarity. Mol Biol Evol 29:2987-2995. the ancient structure model results in more variation in gene t…
Durand EY, Patterson N, Reich D & Slatkin M 2011 Testing for ancient admixture between closely related populations. Mol Biol Evol 28:2239-2252. D statistics do not allow us to distinguish between the models of admixture and ancestral subdi…
Wilkinson-Herbots HM 2012 The distribution of the coalescence time and the number of pairwise nucleotide differences in a model of population divergence or speciation with an initial period of gene flow. Theor Popul Biol 82:92-108. estimat…
Leffler EM, Bullaughey K, Matute DR, Meyer WK, Ségurel L, Venkat A, Andolfatto P & Przeworski M 2012 Revisiting an old riddle: what determines genetic diversity within species? PLoS Biol 10:e31001388. species with larger population sizes m…
Scally A & Durbin R 2012 Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution. Nat Rev Genet 13:745-753. comparison of the sequence divergence between humans and macaques with fossil evidence for the split betwe…
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Barriére A, Gordon KL & Ruvinsky I 2012 Coevolution within and between regulatory loci can preserve promoter function despite evolutionary rate acceleration. PLoS Genet 8:e1002961. phenotypes that appear to be conserved could be maintained…
Manhart M, Haldane A & Morozov AV 2012 A universal scaling law determines time reversibility and steady state of substitutions under selection. Theor Popul Biol 82:66-76. the condition necessary to guarantee a monomorphic population is μ ≤…
Miller-Messmer M, Kühn K, Bichara M, Le Ret M, Imbault P & Gualberto JM 2012 RecA-dependent DNA repair results in increased heteroplasmy of the Arabidopsis mitochondrial genome. Plant Physiol 159:211-226. replication repair of double-stran…
Llopart A 2012 The rapid evolution of X-linked male-biased gene expression and the large-X effect in Drosophila yakuba, D. santomea and their hybrids. Mol Biol Evol, in press. doi:10.1093/molbev/mss190 the detection of a large fraction of …
Zhang X-S 2012 Fisher's geometrical model of fitness landscape and variance in fitness within a changing environment. Evolution 66:2350-2368. predictions from Fisher's geometrical model are consistent with empirical estimates, implying tha…
