Entries from 2012-10-01 to 1 month

epistasis

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…

epistasis

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…

adaptive dynamics

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…

population history

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…

ancient structure

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…

ancient structure

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…

isolation with migration

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 …

isolation with migration

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…

ancient structure

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…

ancient structure

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…

isolation with migration

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…

population genetics

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…

mutation

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…