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FALL 2008

Des Marais, D.L. and M.D. Rausher, 2008. Escape from adaptive conflict after duplication in an anthocyanin pathway gene. Nature 454: 762-765.

Fernandez, A.A. and M.R. Morris, 2008. Mate choice for more melanin as a mechanism to maintain a functional oncogene. PNAS 105(36): 13503-13507.

Findlay, G.D. Y. Xianhua, M.J. MacCross, and W.J. Swanson, 2008. Proteomics reveals novel Drosophila seminal fluid proteins transferred at mating. PLoS Biology 6(7): 1417-1426.

Hammer, M.F., F.L. Mendez, M.P. Cox, A.E. Woerner, and J.D. Wall, 2008. Sex-biased evolutionary forces shape genomic patterns of human diversity. PLoS Genetics 4(9): e1000202.

Liao, B-Y. and J. Zhang, 2008. Null mutations in human and mouse orthologs frequently result in different phenotypes. PNAS 105(19): 6987-6992.

Mancera, E., R. Bourgon, A. Brozzi, W. Huber, and L.M. Steinmetz, 2008. High-resolution mapping of meiotic crossovers and non-crossovers in yeast. Nature 454: 479-485.

Novembre, J., T. Johnson, K. Bryc, Z. Kutalik, A.R. Boyko, A. Auton, A. Indap, K.S. King, S. Bergmann, M.R. Nelson, M. Stephens, and C.D. Bustamante, 2008. Genes mirror geography within Europe. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature07331.

Palopoli, M.F., M.V. Rockman, A. TinMaung, C. Ramsay, S. Curwen, A. Aduna, J. Laurita, and L. Kruglyak, 2008. Molecular basis of the copulatory plug polymorphism in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 454: 1019-1022.

Seehausen, O., Y. Terai, I.S. Magalhaes, K.L. Carleton, H.D.J. Mrosso, R. Miyagi, I. van der Sluijs, M.V. Schneider, M.E. Maan, H. Tachida, H. Imai, and N. Okada, 2008. Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish. Nature 455: 620-626.

Smadja, C. and G. Ganem, 2007. Divergence of odorant signals within and between the two European subspecies of the house mouse. Behavioral Ecology 19(1): 223-231.

Storz, J.F., M. Baze, J.L. Waite, F.G. Hoffmann, J.C. Opazo, and J.P. Hayes, 2007. Complex signatures of selection and gene conversion in the duplicated globin genes of house mice. Genetics 177: 481-500.

Sultan, M., M.H. Schultz, H. Richard, A. Magen, A. Klingenhoff, M. Scherf, M. Seifert, T. Borodina, A. Soldatov, D. Parkhomchuk, D. Schmidt, S. O'Keeffe, S. Haas, M. Vingron, H. Lehrach, and M-L. Yaspo, 2008. A global view of gene activity and alternative splicing by deep sequencing of the human transcriptome. Science 321: 956-960.

Via, S. and J. West, 2008. The genetic mosaic suggests a new role for hitchhiking in ecological speciation. Molecular Ecology 17: 4334-4345.

Yokoyama, S., T. Tada, H. Zhang, and L. Britt, 2008. Elucidation of phenotypic adaptations: Molecular analysis of dim-light vision proteins in vertebrates. PNAS 195(36): 13480-13485.

SPRING 2008

Bolnick, D.I., M. Turelli, H. Lopez-Fernandez, P.C. Wainwright, and T.J. Near, 2008. Accelerated Mitochondrial Evolution and "Darwin's Corollary": Asymmetric Viability of Reciprocal F1 Hybrids in Centrarchid Fishes. Genetics 178: 1037-1048.

Coyne, J.A., E.H. Kay, and S. Pruett-Jones, 2007. The Genetics Basis of Sexual Dimorphism in Birds. Evolution 62-1: 214-219.

Chaine, A.S. and B.E. Lyon, 2008. Adaptive Plasticity in Female Mate Choice Dampens Sexual Selection on Male Ornaments in the Lark Bunting. Science 319: 459-462.

Gratten, J., A.J., Wilson, A.F. McRae, D. Beraldi, P.M., Visscer, J.M. Pemberton, and J. Slate, 2008. A Localized Negative Genetic Correlation Constrains Microevolution of Coat Color in Wild Sheep. Science 319: 318-320.

Grim, T., 2008. A Possible Role of Social Activity to Explain Differences in Publication Output Among Ecologists. Oikos: doi: 10.1111/j.2008.0030-1299.16551.x.

Lohmueller, K.E., A.R. Indap, S. Schmidt, A.R. Boyko, R.D. Hernandez, M.J. Hubisz, J.J. Sninsky, T.J. White, S.R. Sunyaev, R. Nielsen, A.G. Clark, and C.D. Bustamante, 2008. Proportionally More Deleterious Genetic Variation in European than in African Populations. Nature 451: 994-998.

Hill, W.G., M.E. Goddard, and P.M. Visscher, 2008. Data and Theory Point to Mainly Additive Genetic Variance for Complex Traits. PLoS Genetics doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000008.eor.

Malone, J.H. and P. Michalak, 2008. Physiological Sex Predicts Hybrid Sterility Regardless of Genotype. Science 319: 59.

FALL 2007

Chen, S-T., H-C. Cheng, D.A. Barbash, and H-P. Yang, 2007. Evolution of hydra, a Recently Evolved Testis-Expressed Gene with Nine Alternative First Exons in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genetics 3(7): 1131-1143.

Frazer, K.A., E. Eskin, H.M. Kang, M.A. Brogue, D.A. Hinds, E.J. Beilharz, R.V. Gupta, J. Montgomery, M.M. Morenzoni, G.B. Nilsen, C.L. Pethiyagoda, L.L. Stuve, F.M. Johnson, M.J. Daly, C.M. Wade and D.R. Cox, 2007. A Sequence-Based Variation Map of 8.27 Million SNPs in Inbred Mouse Strains. Nature doi:10.1038/nature06067.

Levy, S., G. Sutton, P.C. Ng, L. Feuk, A.L. Halpern, et. al., 2007. The diploid genome sequence of an individual human. PLoS Biology 5(10): e254.

Qin, J., P. Calabrese, I. Tiemann-Boege, D. Narendra Shinde, S-R. Yoon, D. Gelfand, K. Bauer, and N. Arnheim, 2007. The molecular anatomy of spontaneous germline mutations in human testes. PLoS Biology 5(9): e224.

Yang, H., T.A. Bell, G.A. Churchill, and F. Pardo-Manuel de Villena, 2007. On the subspecific origin of the laboratory mouse. Nature Genetics doi:10.1038/np2087.

SPRING 2007

Anderson, W.W., Y-K. Kim, and P.A. Gowaty, 2007. Experimental Constraints on Mate Preferences in Drosophila pseudoobscura Decrease Offspring Viability and Fitness of Mated Pairs. PNAS 104(11): 4484-4488.

Armakolas, A., and A.J.S. Klar, 2007. Left-Right Dynein Motor Implicated in Selective Chromatid Segregation in Mouse Cells. Science 315: 100-101.

Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., M. Cardillo, K.E. Jones, R.D.E. MacPhee, R.M.D. Beck, R. Grenyer, S.A. Price, R.A. Vos, J.L. Gittleman, and A. Purvis, 2007. The Delayed Rise of Present-Day Mammals. Nature 446: 507-512.

Di Rienzo, A., and R.R. Hudson, 2006. An Evolutionary Framework for Common Diseases: the Ancestral-Susceptibility Model. Trends in Genetics 21(11): 596-601.

Greig, D., 2007. A Screen for Recessive Speciation Genes Expressed in the Gametes of F1 Hybrid Yeast. PLoS Genetics 3(2): 281-286.

Immler, S., H.D.M. Moore, W.G. Breed, and T.R. Birkhead, 2007. By Hook or by Crook? Morphometry, Competition, and Cooperation in Rodent Sperm. PLoS One 2(1): e170 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000170.

Libert, S., J. Zwiener, X. Chu, W. VanVoorhies, G. Roman, and S.D. Pletcher, 2007. Regulation of Drosophila Life Span by Olfaction and Food-Derived Odors. Science 315: 1133-1137.

Parera, M., G. Fernandez, B. Clotet, and M.A. Martinez, 2007. HIV-1 Protease Catalytic Efficiency Effects Caused by Random Single Amino Acid Substitutions. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24(2): 382-387.

Slotman, M.A., L.J. Reimer, T. Thiemann, G. Dolo, E. Fondjo, and G.C. Lanzaro, 2006. Reduced Recombination Rate and Genetic Differentiation Between the M and S Forms of Anopheles gambiae s.s. Genetics 174: 2081-2093.


FALL 2006

Brideau, N.J., H.A. Flores, J. Wang, S. Maheshwari, X. Wang, and D.A. Barbash, 2006. Two Dobzhansky-Muller Genes Interact to Cause Hybrid Lethality in Drosophila. Science 314: 1292 -1295.

Counterman, B.A., and M.A.F. Noor, 2006. Multilocus Test for Introgression between the Cactophilic Species Drosophila mojavensis and Drosophila arizonae. The American Naturalist 168 (5): 682-696.

Pattarini, J.M., W.T. Starmer, A. Bjork, and S. Pitnick, 2006. Mechanisms Underlying the Sperm Quality Advantage in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 60 (10): 2064-2080.

Tang, T., J. Lu, J. Huang, J. He, S.R. McCouch, Y. Shen, Z. Kai, M.D. Purugganan, S. Shi, and C-I. Wu, 2006. Genomic Variation in Rice: Genesis of Highly Polymorphic Linkage Blocks during Domestication. PLoS Genetics 2 (11): 1824 -1833.