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Evolutionary genetics
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fitness
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natural selection
7 March 2010Empowered by technology and sampling efforts designed to facilitate genome-wide association mapping, human geneticists are now studying the geography of genetic variation in unprecedented detail.
With high genomic coverage and geographic resolution, these studies are identifying loci with spatial signatures of selection, such as extreme levels of differentiation and correlations with environmental variables.
Collectively, patterns at these loci are beginning to provide new insights into (...) -
neutral theory of molecular evolution
21 November 2006References
Chamary JV, Parmley JL, Hurst LD. Hearing silence: non-neutral evolution at synonymous sites in mammals. Nat Rev Genet. 2006 Feb;7(2):98-108. PMID: #16418745# -
RNA selection pressure
18 November 2006References
Xing Y, Lee C. Alternative splicing and RNA selection pressure—evolutionary consequences for eukaryotic genomes. Nat Rev Genet. 2006 Jul;7(7):499-509. PMID: #16770337# -
ecosystems
18 November 2006References
Whitham TG, Bailey JK, Schweitzer JA, Shuster SM, Bangert RK, LeRoy CJ, Lonsdorf EV, Allan GJ, DiFazio SP, Potts BM, Fischer DG, Gehring CA, Lindroth RL, Marks JC, Hart SC, Wimp GM, Wooley SC. A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems. Nat Rev Genet. 2006 Jul;7(7):510-23. PMID: #16778835# -
computational evolution
18 November 2006References
Banzhaf W, Beslon G, Christensen S, Foster JA, Kepes F, Lefort V, Miller JF, Radman M, Ramsden JJ. Guidelines: From artificial evolution to computational evolution: a research agenda. Nat Rev Genet. 2006 Sep;7(9):729-35. PMID: #16894364# -
artificial evolution
18 November 2006References
Banzhaf W, Beslon G, Christensen S, Foster JA, Kepes F, Lefort V, Miller JF, Radman M, Ramsden JJ. Guidelines: From artificial evolution to computational evolution: a research agenda. Nat Rev Genet. 2006 Sep;7(9):729-35. PMID: #16894364# -
chordates
13 February 2006Hemichordates, the phylum of bilateral animals most closely related to chordates, could reveal the evolutionary origins of chordate traits such as the nerve cord, notochord, gill slits and tail.
The anteroposterior maps of gene expression domains for 38 genes of chordate neural patterning are highly similar for hemichordates and chordates, even though hemichordates have a diffuse nerve-net.
The map of dorsoventral expression domains, centered on a Bmp-Chordin axis, differs between the two (...) -
neutral theory of molecular evolution
30 January 2006According to the neutral theory of molecular evolution, some classes of mutation have too small an effect on fitness to be affected by natural selection.
References
Chamary JV, Parmley JL, Hurst LD. Hearing silence: non-neutral evolution at synonymous sites in mammals. Nat Rev Genet. 2006 Feb;7(2):98-108. PMID: #16418745# -
developmental evolution
18 January 2006References
Alonso CR, Wilkins AS. Opinion: the molecular elements that underlie developmental evolution. Nat Rev Genet. 2005 Sep;6(9):709-15. PMID: #16094311#
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