Mattieu Bégin

Summary

Affiliation: McGill University
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi The common quantitative genetic basis of wing morphology and diapause occurrence in the cricket Gryllus veletis
    M Begin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Heredity (Edinb) 89:473-9. 2002
  2. ncbi The constancy of the G matrix through species divergence and the effects of quantitative genetic constraints on phenotypic evolution: a case study in crickets
    Mattieu Bégin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada
    Evolution 57:1107-20. 2003
  3. ncbi The effect of temperature and wing morphology on quantitative genetic variation in the cricket Gryllus firmus, with an appendix examining the statistical properties of the Jackknife-MANOVA method of matrix comparison
    M Begin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    J Evol Biol 17:1255-67. 2004
  4. ncbi From micro- to macroevolution through quantitative genetic variation: positive evidence from field crickets
    Mattieu Bégin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, Canada
    Evolution 58:2287-304. 2004
  5. ncbi Low impact of germline transposition on the rate of mildly deleterious mutation in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Mattieu Bégin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada
    Genetics 174:2129-36. 2006
  6. ncbi Transposable elements, mutational correlations, and population divergence in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Mattieu Bégin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, Canada
    Evolution 61:1062-70. 2007

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi The common quantitative genetic basis of wing morphology and diapause occurrence in the cricket Gryllus veletis
    M Begin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Heredity (Edinb) 89:473-9. 2002
    ....
  2. ncbi The constancy of the G matrix through species divergence and the effects of quantitative genetic constraints on phenotypic evolution: a case study in crickets
    Mattieu Bégin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada
    Evolution 57:1107-20. 2003
    ..Overall, this study provided some support for the validity of the predictive power of quantitative genetics over evolutionary time scales...
  3. ncbi The effect of temperature and wing morphology on quantitative genetic variation in the cricket Gryllus firmus, with an appendix examining the statistical properties of the Jackknife-MANOVA method of matrix comparison
    M Begin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    J Evol Biol 17:1255-67. 2004
    ..The implications of this result are discussed with respect to the prediction of evolutionary trajectories...
  4. ncbi From micro- to macroevolution through quantitative genetic variation: positive evidence from field crickets
    Mattieu Bégin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, Canada
    Evolution 58:2287-304. 2004
    ..Alternative explanations are discussed...
  5. ncbi Low impact of germline transposition on the rate of mildly deleterious mutation in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Mattieu Bégin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada
    Genetics 174:2129-36. 2006
    ..This study suggests that high rates of TE activity do not necessarily translate into high rates of detectable nonlethal mutation...
  6. ncbi Transposable elements, mutational correlations, and population divergence in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Mattieu Bégin
    Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, Canada
    Evolution 61:1062-70. 2007
    ..Our results suggest that mutations induced by mobile elements in C. elegans are similar to other spontaneous mutations with respect to their contribution to the microevolution of quantitative traits...