Boyko et al. 2010

Thu Sep 30 2010 Filed in: quantitative genetics
A Simple Genetic Architecture Underlies Morphological Variation in Dogs
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Rosas et al 2010

Fri Sep 17 2010 Filed in: quantitative genetics
Cryptic Variation between Species and the Basis of Hybrid Performance
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Whitney and Garland 2010

Fri Sep 10 2010 Filed in: evolution | population genetics
Did Genetic Drift Drive Increases in Genome Complexity?
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North et al. 2010

Fri Sep 03 2010 Filed in: population genetics
LOCAL ADAPTATION IN A CHANGING WORLD: THE ROLES OF GENE-FLOW, MUTATION, AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

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Schmidt et al. 2010

Fri Aug 27 2010 Filed in: population genetics
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

Fri Aug 20 2010 Filed in: domestication | population genetics
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...

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Woodhouse et al. 2010

Fri Aug 13 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Following Tetraploidy in Maize, a Short Deletion Mechanism Removed Genes Preferentially from One of the Two Homeologs
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Coate and Doyle 2010

Fri Aug 06 2010 Filed in: evolution
Quantifying Whole Transcriptome Size, a Prerequisite for Understanding Transcriptome Evolution Across Species: An Example from a Plant Allopolyploid
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Slotte et al. 2010 and Gossman et al. 2010 reprise

Fri Jul 23 2010 Filed in: population genetics
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

Fri Jul 23 2010 Filed in: population genetics
The distinctive footprints of local hitchhiking in a varied environment and global hitchhiking in a subdivided population
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Yang et al. 2010

Fri Jul 16 2010 Filed in: quantitative genetics
Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height
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Karasov et al. 2010

Fri Jul 09 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Evidence that Adaptation in Drosophila Is Not Limited by Mutation at Single Sites
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Albrechtsen et al. 2010

Fri Jul 02 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Ascertainment biases in SNP chips affect measures of population divergence
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Zheng and Ge 2010

Fri Jun 25 2010 Filed in: population genetics
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

Fri Jun 18 2010 Filed in: population genetics
The Scale of Population Structure in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Domestication showcase showdown

Fri Jun 11 2010 Filed in: population genetics | domestication

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...

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Michel et al. 2010

Fri Jun 04 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Widespread genomic divergence during sympatric speciation
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(Charlesworth) 2010

Fri May 28 2010 Filed in: population genetics
A pot-luck of Charlesworth Read More...

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González et al. 2010

Fri May 21 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Genome-Wide Patterns of Adaptation to Temperate Environments Associated with Transposable Elements in Drosophila
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Gossmann et al. 2010

Fri May 14 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Genome wide analyses reveal little evidence for adaptive evolution in many plant species
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Heled and Drummond 2010

Fri May 07 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Bayesian Inference of Species Trees from Multilocus Data
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Buckler et al. 1999

Fri Apr 30 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Meiotic Drive of Chromosomal Knobs Reshaped the Maize Genome
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Rubin et al. 2010 AND Pool et al. 2010

Fri Apr 23 2010 Filed in: domestication | population genetics
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

Fri Apr 16 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Mating-System Variation, Demographic History and Patterns of Nucleotide Diversity in the Tristylous Plant Eichhornia paniculata
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Slotte et al 2010

Fri Apr 09 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Genome-wide evidence for efficient positive and purifying selection in Capsella grandiflora, a plant species with a large effective population size Read More...

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Jakob et al 2010

Fri Apr 02 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Population demography influences climatic niche evolution: evidence from diploid American Hordeum species (Poaceae)
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Lusk and Eisen 2010

Fri Mar 12 2010 Filed in: evolution
Evolutionary Mirages: Selection on Binding Site Composition Creates the Illusion of Conserved Grammars in Drosophila Enhancers
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Ingvarsson 2010

Fri Mar 05 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Natural Selection on Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Mutations Shapes Patterns of Polymorphism in Populus tremula
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Lee et al. 2010

Fri Feb 26 2010 Filed in: molecular genetics
Rational association of genes with traits using a genome-scale gene network for Arabidopsis thaliana
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Yamagata et al 2010

Fri Feb 19 2010 Filed in: evolution
Mitochondrial gene in the nuclear genome induces reproductive barrier in rice
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Huff et al. 2010

Fri Feb 12 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Mobile elements reveal small population size in the ancient ancestors of Homo sapiens
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Wasser et al. 2004

Fri Feb 05 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Assigning African elephant DNA to geographic region of origin: Applications to the ivory trade
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Bensasson et al. 2009

Fri Jan 29 2010 Filed in: population genetics
Rapid Evolution of Yeast Centromeres in the Absence of Drive
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Kim & Gulisija 2009

Fri Jan 22 2010 Filed in: population genetics | domestication
Signatures of Recent Directional Selection Under Different Models of Population Expansion During Colonization of New Selective Environments Read More...

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Kebrom & Brutnell 2007 and Clark et al. 2006

Fri Jan 15 2010 Filed in: evolution
The molecular analysis of the shade avoidance syndrome in the grasses has begun.

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A distant upstream enhancer at the maize domestication gene tb1 has pleiotropic effects on plant and inflorescent architecture.
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Obbard et al. 2009

Fri Dec 18 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Quantifying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System
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Ayroles et al. 2009

Fri Dec 11 2009 Filed in: quantitative genetics
Systems genetics of complex traits in Drosophila melanogaster Read More...

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Latta 2009

Fri Dec 04 2009 Filed in: quantitative genetics
Testing for local adaptation in Avena barbata: a classic example of ecotypic divergence

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Qiu et al. 2006

Fri Nov 20 2009 Filed in: evolution
The deepest divergences in land plants inferred from phylogenomic evidence
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Wolf et al. 2009

Fri Nov 13 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Nonlinear Dynamics of Nonsynonymous (dN) and Synonymous (dS) Substitution Rates Affects Inference of Selection
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Barrick et al. 2009

Fri Nov 06 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli
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Gutenkunst et al. 2009

Fri Oct 30 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Inferring the Joint Demographic History of Multiple Populations from Multidimensional SNP Frequency Data
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Stolzfus & Yampolsky 2009 / Nielsen 2009

Fri Oct 23 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Climbing Mount Probable: Mutation as a Cause of Nonrandomness in Evolution

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Nielsen et al. 2005

Fri Oct 16 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Genomic scans for selective sweeps using SNP data
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Turner et al. 2008

Fri Oct 09 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Genomic Analysis of Differentiation between Soil Types Reveals Candidate Genes for Local Adaptation in Arabidopsis lyrata Read More...

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Gilad et al. 2009

Tue Oct 06 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Characterizing natural variation using next-generation sequencing technologies.
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Piperno et al 2009 & Ranere et al. 2009

Fri Oct 02 2009 Filed in: domestication
Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico

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Sella et al. 2009

Tue Sep 29 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Pervasive Natural Selection in the Drosophila Genome?
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Kovach et al. 2009

Fri Sep 25 2009 Filed in: population genetics | domestication
The origin and evolution of fragrance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Read More...

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Slatkin 2008

Tue Sep 22 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Linkage disequilibrium — understanding the evolutionary past and mapping the medical future
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Itan et al. 2009

Fri Sep 18 2009 Filed in: population genetics
The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe
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Shih et al. 2010

Fri Sep 11 2009 Filed in: population genetics
High frequency gene conversion in centromere cores Read More...

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Orr 2009

Tue Sep 08 2009 Filed in: evolution
Fitness and its role in evolutionary genetics
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Eyre-Walker & Keightley 2009

Fri Sep 04 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Estimating the Rate of Adaptive Molecular Evolution in the Presence of Slightly Deleterious Mutations and Population Size Change
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Charlesworth 2009

Tue Sep 01 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Effective population size and patterns of molecular evolution and variation
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Buckler/McMullen & McMullen/Buckler

Fri Aug 28 2009 Filed in: quantitative genetics
The Genetic Architecture of Maize Flowering Time and Genetic Properties of the Maize Nested Association Mapping Population Read More...

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Holsinger and Weir

Tue Aug 25 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Genetics in geographically structured populations: defining, estimating and interpreting FST
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Fishman and Saunders 2009

Fri Aug 21 2009 Filed in: evolution | quantitative genetics
Centromere-Associated Female Meiotic Drive Entails Male Fitness Costs in Monkeyflowers Read More...

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Jones and Wakeley 2009

Tue Aug 18 2009 Filed in: population genetics
The Influence of Gene Conversion on Linkage Disequilibrium Around a Selective Sweep Read More...

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Städler et al 2009

Fri Aug 14 2009 Filed in: population genetics
The Impact of Sampling Schemes on the Site Frequency Spectrum in Nonequilibrium Subdivided Populations
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Harismendy et al. 2009

Tue Aug 11 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Evaluation of next generation sequencing platforms for population targeted sequencing studies
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Hahn 2008

Fri Aug 07 2009 Filed in: population genetics
TOWARD A SELECTION THEORY OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
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Zhang et al. 2009

Tue Aug 04 2009 Filed in: population genetics | domestication
Selection on grain shattering genes and rates of rice domestication Read More...

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Schneider et al. 2009

Fri Jul 31 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Estimates of Positive Darwinian Selection Are Inflated by Errors in Sequencing, Annotation, and Alignment
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McNally et al. 2009

Tue Jul 28 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Genomewide SNP variation reveals relationships among landraces and modern varieties of rice Read More...

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Chiang et al. 2009

Fri Jul 24 2009 Filed in: evolution | molecular genetics
Major flowering time gene, FLOWERING LOCUS C, regulates seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana Read More...

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van Heerwaarden et al. 2010

Fri Jul 17 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Fine scale genetic structure in the wild ancestor of maize (Zea mays spp. Parviglumis)
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Guillot 2009

Tue Jul 14 2009 Filed in: population genetics
On the inference of spatial structure from population genetics data
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de-Lucas et al. 2008

Fri Jul 10 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Mating system and pollen gene flow in Mediterranean maritime pine Read More...

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Price et al. 2009

Tue Jul 07 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Sensitive Detection of Chromosomal Segments of Distinct Ancestry in Admixed Populations
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Coop et al. 2009

Fri Jul 03 2009 Filed in: population genetics
The Role of Geography in Human Adaptation
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Gore et al. 2009

Tue Jun 30 2009 Filed in: population genetics | domestication
A first generation haplotype map of maize Read More...

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Templeton 2009

Fri Jun 26 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Statistical hypothesis testing in intraspecific phylogeography: nested clade phylogeographical analysis vs. approximate Bayesian computation

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Marshall et al. 2009

Fri Jun 19 2009 Filed in: population genetics | evolution
Glacial refugia in a maritime temperate climate: Cicada (Kikihia subalpina) mtDNA phylogeography in New Zealand Read More...

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Wolfgruber et al. 2009

Fri Jun 12 2009 Filed in: evolution
Maize Centromere Structure and Evolution: Sequence Analysis of Centromeres 2 and 5 Reveals Dynamic Loci Shaped Primarily by Retrotransposons
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Jensen et al. 2008

Fri Jun 05 2009 Filed in: population genetics
An Approximate Bayesian Estimator Suggests Strong, Recurrent Selective Sweeps in Drosophila
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Tishkoff et al. 2009

Fri May 29 2009 Filed in: population genetics
The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans Read More...

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Joyce and Marjoram 2008

Fri May 22 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Approximately sufficient statistics and bayesian computation.
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Flint and Mackay 2009

Fri May 15 2009 Filed in: quantitative genetics
Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in mice, flies, and humans
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Nosil 2009

Tue Apr 14 2009 Filed in: population genetics
ADAPTIVE POPULATION DIVERGENCE IN CRYPTIC COLOR-PATTERN FOLLOWING A REDUCTION IN GENE FLOW
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Zardoya and Meyer 1998

Tue Apr 07 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Complete mitochondrial genome suggests diapsid affinities of turtles Read More...

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Maron et al. 2009

Wed Apr 01 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Clinical Outcome and Phenotypic Expression in LAMP2 Cardiomyopath Read More...

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Hyten et al. 2006

Tue Mar 31 2009 Filed in: domestication | population genetics
Impacts of genetic bottlenecks on soybean genome diversity
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Wang et al. 2009

Tue Mar 24 2009 Filed in: population genetics | domestication
SNP deserts of Asian cultivated rice: genomic regions under domestication Read More...

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Li et al. 2008

Tue Mar 17 2009 Filed in: evolution
An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China
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Paterson et al. 2009

Tue Mar 17 2009 Filed in: population genetics | domestication
The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses Read More...

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Kim et al. 2008

Mon Mar 09 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Regulatory Genes Control a Key Morphological and Ecological Trait Transferred Between Species
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Maynard Smith and Price 1973

Mon Mar 02 2009 Filed in: evolution
The Logic of Animal Conflict
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Boitard et al. 2009

Thu Feb 26 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Detecting Selective Sweeps: A New Approach Based on Hidden Markov Models Read More...

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Moyle et al. 2009

Mon Feb 23 2009 Filed in: evolution
Explosive Pleistocene diversification and hemispheric expansion of a “great speciator”

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Patterson et al. 2006

Thu Feb 19 2009 Filed in: population genetics | quantitative genetics
Population Structure and Eigenanalysis Read More...

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Payne et al. 2004

Mon Feb 16 2009 Filed in: evolution
Large Perturbations of the Carbon Cycle During Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction Read More...

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Bouchez et al. 2002

Tue Feb 10 2009 Filed in: quantitative genetics
Marker-Assisted Introgression of Favorable Alleles at Quantitative Trait Loci Between Maize Elite Lines Read More...

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Bilkard et al 2009

Mon Feb 09 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Divergent Evolution of Duplicate Genes Leads to Genetic Incompatibilities Within A. thaliana Read More...

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Cartwright 2009

Thu Feb 05 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Antagonism between local dispersal and self-incompatibility systems in a continuous plant population

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Briggs et al. 2007

Tue Feb 03 2009 Filed in: quantitative genetics | domestication
Linkage Mapping of Domestication Loci in a Large Maize–Teosinte Backcross Resource
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Ward et al. 2009

Mon Feb 02 2009 Filed in: evolution
Abrupt and Gradual Extinction Among Late Permian Land Vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa Read More...

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Vigouroux et al. 2008

Thu Jan 29 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Population structure and genetic diversity of New World maize races assessed by DNA microsatellites
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Saishho and Purugganan 2007

Tue Jan 27 2009 Filed in: domestication
Molecular Phylogeography of Domesticated Barley Traces Expansion of Agriculture in the Old World Read More...

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Felsenstein 1985

Mon Jan 26 2009 Filed in: evolution
Phylogenies and the Comparative Method
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Foll and Gaggiotti 2008

Thu Jan 22 2009 Filed in: population genetics
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

Tue Jan 20 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Scanning the genome for gene single nucleotide polymorphisms involved in adaptive population differentiation in white spruce
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Payne et al. 2009

Mon Jan 19 2009 Filed in: evolution
Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity
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Miller et al. 2004

Mon Jan 12 2009 Filed in: population genetics
Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth Read More...

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Weber et al. 2008

Thu Jan 08 2009 Filed in: quantitative genetics
The Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits in Teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis): New Evidence From Association Mapping
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Sepkoski 1997

Mon Jan 05 2009 Filed in: evolution
Rates of speciation in the fossil record
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Le Thierry d'Ennequin et al 1999

Thu Dec 18 2008 Filed in: quantitative genetics | domestication
Plant domestication: a model for studying the evolution of linkage Read More...

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Payne and Finnegan 2007

Mon Dec 08 2008 Filed in: evolution
The effect of geographic range on extinction risk during background and mass extinction
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Ma et al. 2006

Mon Dec 01 2008 Filed in: population genetics
Genetic Structure and Evolutionary History of a Diploid Hybrid Pine Pinus densata Inferred from the Nucleotide Variation at Seven Gene Loci Read More...

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Signor and Lipps 1982

Tue Nov 25 2008 Filed in: evolution
Sampling bias, gradual extinction patterns ad catastrophes in the fossil record.
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Sjodin et al 2005

Mon Nov 17 2008 Filed in: population genetics
On the meaning and existence of an effective population size
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Peters 2008

Mon Nov 10 2008 Filed in: evolution
Environmental determinants of extinction selectivity in the fossil record
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Peters and Foote 2002

Mon Nov 10 2008 Filed in: evolution
Determinants of extinction in the fossil record
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Organ et al 2007

Mon Nov 03 2008 Filed in: evolution
Origin of avian genome size and structure in non-avian dinosaurs
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Organ and Shedlock 20008

Mon Oct 27 2008 Filed in: evolution
Palaeogenomics of pterosaurs and the evolution of small genome size in flying vertebrates
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Raff 2007

Mon Oct 20 2008 Filed in: evolution
Written in stone: fossils, genes and evo–devo
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Sahney and Benton 2008

Mon Oct 13 2008 Filed in: evolution
Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time
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Axelsson et al. 2008

Mon Oct 06 2008 Filed in: population genetics
The Effect of Ancient DNA Damage on Inferences of Demographic Histories Read More...

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