population genetics

Whitney and Garland 2010

Did Genetic Drift Drive Increases in Genome Complexity?
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North et al. 2010

LOCAL ADAPTATION IN A CHANGING WORLD: THE ROLES OF GENE-FLOW, MUTATION, AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

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Schmidt et al. 2010

Copy Number Variation and Transposable Elements Feature in Recent, Ongoing Adaptation at the Cyp6g1 Locus
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Gross et al. 2010 and Thurber et al. 2010

Molecular evolution of shattering loci in U.S. weedy rice

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Seeing red: the origin of grain pigmentation in US weedy rice Read More...

Woodhouse et al. 2010

Following Tetraploidy in Maize, a Short Deletion Mechanism Removed Genes Preferentially from One of the Two Homeologs
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Slotte et al. 2010 and Gossman et al. 2010 reprise

Genome-Wide Evidence for Efficient Positive and Purifying Selection in Capsella grandiflora, a Plant Species with a Large Effective Population Size

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Bierne 2010

The distinctive footprints of local hitchhiking in a varied environment and global hitchhiking in a subdivided population
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Karasov et al. 2010

Evidence that Adaptation in Drosophila Is Not Limited by Mutation at Single Sites
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Albrechtsen et al. 2010

Ascertainment biases in SNP chips affect measures of population divergence
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Zheng and Ge 2010

Ecological divergence in the presence of gene flow in two closely related Oryza species (Oryza rufipogon and O. nivara)
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Platt et al. 2010

The Scale of Population Structure in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Domestication showcase showdown


FOUR, yes count’em FOUR articles on domestication competing for the title prize. Dog vs. silkworm vs. maize vs. chicken. Now accepting wagers... Read More...

Michel et al. 2010

Widespread genomic divergence during sympatric speciation
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(Charlesworth) 2010

A pot-luck of Charlesworth Read More...

González et al. 2010

Genome-Wide Patterns of Adaptation to Temperate Environments Associated with Transposable Elements in Drosophila
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Gossmann et al. 2010

Genome wide analyses reveal little evidence for adaptive evolution in many plant species
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Heled and Drummond 2010

Bayesian Inference of Species Trees from Multilocus Data
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Buckler et al. 1999

Meiotic Drive of Chromosomal Knobs Reshaped the Maize Genome
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Rubin et al. 2010 AND Pool et al. 2010

Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication

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Population genetic inference from genomic sequence variation
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Ness et al. 2010

Mating-System Variation, Demographic History and Patterns of Nucleotide Diversity in the Tristylous Plant Eichhornia paniculata
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Slotte et al 2010

Genome-wide evidence for efficient positive and purifying selection in Capsella grandiflora, a plant species with a large effective population size Read More...

Jakob et al 2010

Population demography influences climatic niche evolution: evidence from diploid American Hordeum species (Poaceae)
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Ingvarsson 2010

Natural Selection on Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Mutations Shapes Patterns of Polymorphism in Populus tremula
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Huff et al. 2010

Mobile elements reveal small population size in the ancient ancestors of Homo sapiens
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Wasser et al. 2004

Assigning African elephant DNA to geographic region of origin: Applications to the ivory trade
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Bensasson et al. 2009

Rapid Evolution of Yeast Centromeres in the Absence of Drive
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Kim & Gulisija 2009

Signatures of Recent Directional Selection Under Different Models of Population Expansion During Colonization of New Selective Environments Read More...

Obbard et al. 2009

Quantifying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System
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Wolf et al. 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics of Nonsynonymous (dN) and Synonymous (dS) Substitution Rates Affects Inference of Selection
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Barrick et al. 2009

Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli
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Gutenkunst et al. 2009

Inferring the Joint Demographic History of Multiple Populations from Multidimensional SNP Frequency Data
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Stolzfus & Yampolsky 2009 / Nielsen 2009

Climbing Mount Probable: Mutation as a Cause of Nonrandomness in Evolution

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ADAPTIONISM—30 YEARS AFTER GOULD AND LEWONTIN Read More...

Nielsen et al. 2005

Genomic scans for selective sweeps using SNP data
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Turner et al. 2008

Genomic Analysis of Differentiation between Soil Types Reveals Candidate Genes for Local Adaptation in Arabidopsis lyrata Read More...

Gilad et al. 2009

Characterizing natural variation using next-generation sequencing technologies.
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Sella et al. 2009

Pervasive Natural Selection in the Drosophila Genome?
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Kovach et al. 2009

The origin and evolution of fragrance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Read More...

Slatkin 2008

Linkage disequilibrium — understanding the evolutionary past and mapping the medical future
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Itan et al. 2009

The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe
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Shih et al. 2010

High frequency gene conversion in centromere cores Read More...

Eyre-Walker & Keightley 2009

Estimating the Rate of Adaptive Molecular Evolution in the Presence of Slightly Deleterious Mutations and Population Size Change
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Charlesworth 2009

Effective population size and patterns of molecular evolution and variation
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Holsinger and Weir

Genetics in geographically structured populations: defining, estimating and interpreting FST
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Jones and Wakeley 2009

The Influence of Gene Conversion on Linkage Disequilibrium Around a Selective Sweep Read More...

Städler et al 2009

The Impact of Sampling Schemes on the Site Frequency Spectrum in Nonequilibrium Subdivided Populations
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Harismendy et al. 2009

Evaluation of next generation sequencing platforms for population targeted sequencing studies
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Hahn 2008

TOWARD A SELECTION THEORY OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
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Zhang et al. 2009

Selection on grain shattering genes and rates of rice domestication Read More...

Schneider et al. 2009

Estimates of Positive Darwinian Selection Are Inflated by Errors in Sequencing, Annotation, and Alignment
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McNally et al. 2009

Genomewide SNP variation reveals relationships among landraces and modern varieties of rice Read More...

van Heerwaarden et al. 2010

Fine scale genetic structure in the wild ancestor of maize (Zea mays spp. Parviglumis)
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Guillot 2009

On the inference of spatial structure from population genetics data
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de-Lucas et al. 2008

Mating system and pollen gene flow in Mediterranean maritime pine Read More...

Price et al. 2009

Sensitive Detection of Chromosomal Segments of Distinct Ancestry in Admixed Populations
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Coop et al. 2009

The Role of Geography in Human Adaptation
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Gore et al. 2009

A first generation haplotype map of maize Read More...

Templeton 2009

Statistical hypothesis testing in intraspecific phylogeography: nested clade phylogeographical analysis vs. approximate Bayesian computation

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Marshall et al. 2009

Glacial refugia in a maritime temperate climate: Cicada (Kikihia subalpina) mtDNA phylogeography in New Zealand Read More...

Jensen et al. 2008

An Approximate Bayesian Estimator Suggests Strong, Recurrent Selective Sweeps in Drosophila
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Tishkoff et al. 2009

The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans Read More...

Joyce and Marjoram 2008

Approximately sufficient statistics and bayesian computation.
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Nosil 2009

ADAPTIVE POPULATION DIVERGENCE IN CRYPTIC COLOR-PATTERN FOLLOWING A REDUCTION IN GENE FLOW
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Zardoya and Meyer 1998

Complete mitochondrial genome suggests diapsid affinities of turtles Read More...

Maron et al. 2009

Clinical Outcome and Phenotypic Expression in LAMP2 Cardiomyopath Read More...

Hyten et al. 2006

Impacts of genetic bottlenecks on soybean genome diversity
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Wang et al. 2009

SNP deserts of Asian cultivated rice: genomic regions under domestication Read More...

Paterson et al. 2009

The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses Read More...

Kim et al. 2008

Regulatory Genes Control a Key Morphological and Ecological Trait Transferred Between Species
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Boitard et al. 2009

Detecting Selective Sweeps: A New Approach Based on Hidden Markov Models Read More...

Patterson et al. 2006

Population Structure and Eigenanalysis Read More...

Bilkard et al 2009

Divergent Evolution of Duplicate Genes Leads to Genetic Incompatibilities Within A. thaliana Read More...

Cartwright 2009

Antagonism between local dispersal and self-incompatibility systems in a continuous plant population

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Vigouroux et al. 2008

Population structure and genetic diversity of New World maize races assessed by DNA microsatellites
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Foll and Gaggiotti 2008

A Genome-Scan Method to Identify Selected Loci Appropriate for Both Dominant and Codominant Markers: A Bayesian Perspective
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Namroud et al. 2008

Scanning the genome for gene single nucleotide polymorphisms involved in adaptive population differentiation in white spruce
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Miller et al. 2004

Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth Read More...

Ma et al. 2006

Genetic Structure and Evolutionary History of a Diploid Hybrid Pine Pinus densata Inferred from the Nucleotide Variation at Seven Gene Loci Read More...

Sjodin et al 2005

On the meaning and existence of an effective population size
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Axelsson et al. 2008

The Effect of Ancient DNA Damage on Inferences of Demographic Histories Read More...