Entries from 2013-01-01 to 1 month

soft sweep

Glémin S & Ronfort J 2013 Adaptation and maladaptation in selfing and outcrossing species: new mutations versus standing variation. Evolution 67:225-240. simulations to compute the probability of fixation from standing genetic variation, s…

evolutionary rescue

Kirkpatrick M & Peischl S 2013 Evolutionary rescue by beneficial mutations in space and time. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 368:20120082. φt(x) = ∑k = 0∞fk,txk ... (2.1) Pt = 1 − φ0(φ1(. . . φt − 1(0))) ... (2.2) assume that changes in the envir…

evolutionary rescue

Bell G 2013 Evolutionary rescue and the limits of adaptation. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 368:20120080. the role of relative fitness in adaptation is well understood evolutionary rescue emphasizes the need to recognize explicitly the importanc…

soft sweep

Burke MK 2012 How does adaptation sweep through the genome? Insights from long-term selection experiments. Proc R Soc Lond B 279:5029-5038. a classic 'hard' selective sweep describes the process of a novel, major effect mutation arising on…

polygenic adaptation

Radwan J & Babik W 2012 The genomics of adaptation. Proc R Soc Lond B 279:5024-5028. models of adaptive evolution have traditionally assumed adaptation from de novo mutations such scenarios seem to fit the evolution of microorganisms reaso…

polygenic adaptation

Olson-Manning CF, Wagner MR & Mitchell-Olds T 2012 Adaptive evolution: evaluating empirical support for theoretical predictions. Nat Rev Genet 13:867-877. in humans and other species with expanding populations, very large samples (consisti…

polygenic adaptation

Turchin MC, Chiang CWK, Palmer CD, Sankararaman S, Reich D, GIANT Consortium & Hirschhorn JN 2012 Evidence of widespread selection on standing variation in Europe at height-associated SNPs. Nat Genet 44:1015-1019. frequencies of alleles as…

LEGO

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deleterious mutation

Agrawal AF & Whitlock MC 2012 Mutation load: the fitness of individuals in populations where deleterious alleles are abundant. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 43:115-135. most populations harbor an abundance of segregating deleterious alleles thes…

isolation with migration

Mailund T, Halager AE, Westergaard N, Dutheil JY, Munch K, Andersen LN, Lunter G, Prüfer K, Scally A, Hobolth A & Schierup MH 2012 A new isolation with migration model along complete genomes infers very different divergence processes among…