Entries from 2012-04-01 to 1 month

pleiotropy

Wagner GP & Zhang J 2012 Universal pleiotropy is not a valid null hypothesis: reply to Hill and Zhang. Nat Rev Genet 13:296.

pleiotropy

Hill WG & Zhang X-S 2012 Assessing pleiotropy and its evolutionary consequences: pleiotropy is not necessarily limited, nor need it hinder the evolution of complexity. Nat Rev Genet 13:296.

pleiotropy & compensatory evolution

Pavlicev M, Norgard EA, Fawcett GL & Cheverud JM 2011 Evolution of pleiotropy: epistatic interaction pattern supports a mechanistic model underlying variation in genotype–phenotype map. J Exp Zool B316:371-385. understanding changes in the…

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soft sweep

Zöllner S 2008 Population history and linkage disequilibrium. Encyclopedia Life Sci a0005428. the selected allele will be in LD over long distances a fact exploited by the extended haplotype homozygosity (EHH) test for selection if an alle…

cis-trans compensation

Maheshwari S & Barbash DA 2012 Cis-by-trans regulatory divergence causes the asymmetric lethal effects of an ancestral hybrid incompatibility gene. PLoS Genet 8:1002597. many protein-coding genes that contribute to incompatibilities betwee…

soft sweep

Pokalyuk C 2012 The effect of recurrent mutation on the linkage disequilibrium under a selective sweep. J Math Biol 64:291-317. hard sweeps dominate for θs both hard sweeps and soft sweeps occur in the range 0.01 θs for θs > 1, almost all …