Entries from 2017-12-01 to 1 month

robustness

Papp B, Notebaart RA & Pál C 2011 Systems-biology approaches for predicting genomic evolution. Nat Rev Genet 12:591-602. is evolution predictable at the molecular level? this Review investigates recent progresses in mapping evolutionary tr…

canalization

Green RM, Fish JL, Young NM, Smith FJ, Roberts B, Dolan K, Choi I, Leach CL, Gordon P, Cheverud JM, Roseman CC, Williams TJ, Marcucio RS & Hallgrímsson B 2017 Developmental nonlinearity drives phenotypic robustness. Nat Commun 8:1970. exce…

polygenic adaptation

Jain K & Stephan W 2017 Rapid adaptation of a polygenic trait after a sudden environmental shift. Genetics 206:389-406. we can observe evolution in action evolution can be so rapid that evolutionary and ecological timescales are confluent …

polygenic adaptation

Jain K & Stephan W 2017 Modes of rapid polygenic adaptation. Mol Biol Evol 34:3169-3175. in contrast to the classical model of directional selection (Charlesworth and Charlesworth 2010), here the strength of selection also depends on the d…

incomplete sweep

Booker TR, Jackson BC & Keightley PD 2017 Detecting positive selection in the genome. BMC Biol 15:98. Fig. 1 d incomplete/partial sweeps if an advantageous allele increases in frequency, but does not reach fixation, there will still be som…

selection

Galtier N 2016 Adaptive protein evolution in animals and the effective population size hypothesis. PLoS Genet 12:e1005774. the proportion of adaptive amino-acid substitution is found to be positively correlated to species effective populat…