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In the journals Carstens, B. C., T. a Pelletier, N. M. Reid, and J. D. Satler. 2013. How to fail at species delimitation. Molecular Ecology 22:4369–4383. doi: 10.1111/mec.12413. … in most contexts it is better to fail to delimit species … Continue reading →

In the journals Johnston SE, J Gratten, C Berenos, JG Pilkington, TH Clutton-Brock, JM Pemberton, and J Slate. 2013. Life history trade-offs at a single locus maintain sexually selected genetic variation. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature12489. We found that an allele conferring … Continue reading →

In the journals Hedrick, PW. 2013. Adaptive introgression in animals: examples and comparison to new mutation and standing variation as sources of adaptive variation. Molecular Ecology doi: 10.1111/mec.12415. … potential examples of adaptive introgression in animals, including balancing selection for … Continue reading →

In the journals Staats, M., R. H. J. Erkens, B. van de Vossenberg, J. J. Wieringa, K. Kraaijeveld, B. Stielow, J. Geml, J. E. Richardson, and F. T. Bakker. 2013. Genomic treasure troves: Complete genome sequencing of herbarium and insect … Continue reading →

In the journals Berg, J. J., and G. Coop. 2013. The population genetic signature of polygenic local adaptation. arXiv: 1307.7759v1. See also Haldane’s Sieve. We exploit the fact that GWAS provide an estimate of the additive effect size of many … Continue reading →

In the journals Orona-Tamayo D., Wielsch N., Blanco-Labra A., Svatos A., Farías-Rodríguez R., Heil M., 2013 Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock-key system to protect Acacia food bodies from exploitation. Molecular Ecology 22: … Continue reading →

In the journals Assis J., Castilho Coelho N., Alberto F., Valero M., Raimondi P., Reed D., Alvares Serrão E., 2013 High and distinct range-edge genetic diversity despite local bottlenecks (SJ Goldstien, Ed.). PLoS ONE 8: e68646. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068646. As predicted, … Continue reading →

Peter, B.M., and M. Slatkin. 2013. Detecting range expansions from genetic data. Evolution online early. doi: 10.1111/evo.12202. We introduce a statistic ψ (the directionality index) that detects asymmetries in the two-dimensional allele frequency spectrum of pairs of population. These asymmetries … Continue reading →

In the journals Leviyang S., 2013  Computational inference methods for selective sweeps arising in acute HIV infection. Genetics 194: 737–752. doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.150862. HIV escape from CTL [cytotoxic T-lymphocyte] response forms a complex, selective sweep that is difficult to analyze. In … Continue reading →

In the journals Pemberton, T.J., Degiorgio, M. & Rosenberg, N. a. 2013. Population structure in a comprehensive genomic data set on human microsatellite variation. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 3: 891–907. doi: 10.1534/g3.113.005728. Here, we combine eight human population-genetic data sets … Continue reading →