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| Dolph SchluterSummaryAffiliation: University of British Columbia Country: Canada Publications
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Parallel evolution and inheritance of quantitative traitsDolph Schluter
Zoology Department and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Am Nat 163:809-22. 2004....
Evidence for ecological speciation and its alternativeDolph Schluter
Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Science 323:737-41. 2009..However, we still have not identified all aspects of selection, and identifying the underlying genes for reproductive isolation remains challenging...- Frequency dependent natural selection during character displacement in sticklebacksDolph Schluter
Zoology Department and Centre for Biodiversity Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4 Canada
Evolution 57:1142-50. 2003..They suggest that displacement along the resource gradient also led to divergence in vulnerability to agents of mortality, probably including predation... 
Genetics and ecological speciationDolph Schluter
Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:9955-62. 2009..Selection from standing genetic variation is likely to play a large role in ecological speciation, which may partly account for its rapidity...- Natural selection and the genetics of adaptation in threespine sticklebackDolph Schluter
Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:2479-86. 2010..Studies of the effects of selection on genes complement efforts to identify the molecular basis of adaptive differences, and improve our understanding of phenotypic evolution... - Natural selection on a major armor gene in threespine sticklebackRowan D H Barrett
Zoology Department and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Science 322:255-7. 2008..Opposing selection at the larval stage and changing dominance for fitness throughout life suggest either that the gene affects additional traits undergoing selection or that linked loci also are affecting fitness... - The latitudinal gradient in recent speciation and extinction rates of birds and mammalsJason T Weir
Biodiversity Research Center and Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Science 315:1574-6. 2007..Instead, our findings suggest that faster turnover at high latitudes contributes to the latitudinal diversity gradient... - The genetics of adaptive shape shift in stickleback: pleiotropy and effect sizeArianne Y K Albert
Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Evolution 62:76-85. 2008..Our results are consistent with predictions of the geometric model of adaptation. Shape evolution in stickleback results from a few genes with large and possibly widespread effects and multiple genes of smaller effect... - The Great American Biotic Interchange in birdsJason T Weir
Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:21737-42. 2009..In contrast to mammals, the direction of traffic across the land bridge in birds was primarily south to north. The event transformed the tropical avifauna of the New World... - Environment specific pleiotropy facilitates divergence at the Ectodysplasin locus in threespine sticklebackRowan D H Barrett
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Evolution 63:2831-7. 2009..Furthermore, because size is important for mate choice in stickleback, the growth rate differences influenced by Eda may have effects on reproductive isolation between marine and freshwater populations... - Rapid evolution of cold tolerance in sticklebackRowan D H Barrett
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Proc Biol Sci 278:233-8. 2011..Our results suggest that cold tolerance is under strong selection and that marine sticklebacks carry sufficient genetic variation to adapt to changes in temperature over remarkably short time scales... - Niche specialization influences adaptive phenotypic plasticity in the threespine sticklebackRichard Svanback
Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Am Nat 180:50-9. 2012..Our data indicate that plasticity can evolve rapidly after colonization of a new environment in response to changing niche use... - Selection and the origin of speciesArianne Y K Albert
Zoology Department and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Curr Biol 15:R283-8. 2005 - Parallel evolution by correlated response: lateral plate reduction in threespine sticklebackKerry B Marchinko
Department of Zoology, 6270 University Boulevard, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Evolution 61:1084-90. 2007.... - Intraguild predation drives evolutionary niche shift in threespine sticklebackTravis Ingram
Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 2370 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Evolution 66:1819-32. 2012..These findings suggest that intraguild prey evolution has altered food web structure by reducing both predation by the intraguild predator and diet overlap between species... - Adaptation from standing genetic variationRowan D H Barrett
Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Trends Ecol Evol 23:38-44. 2008..Understanding how the source of genetic variation affects adaptation will be integral for predicting how populations will respond to changing environments... - Strong assortative mating between allopatric sticklebacks as a by-product of adaptation to different environmentsTimothy H Vines
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 273:911-6. 2006..Our results indicate that the by-product mechanism is a potent source of reproductive isolation, and likely contributed to the origin of sympatric species of sticklebacks... - Ice sheets promote speciation in boreal birdsJason T Weir
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 271:1881-7. 2004..One explanation for the absence of pre-Pleistocene superspecies in boreal avifaunas is that strong selection pressures operated in boreal refugia, causing superspecies members to achieve ecological differentiation at an accelerated rate... - Experimental test of predation's effect on divergent selection during character displacement in sticklebacksHoward D Rundle
Department of Zoology and Centre for Biodiversity Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:14943-8. 2003..In this way, predation and other agents of mortality may facilitate, rather than hinder, character displacement... - The probability of genetic parallelism and convergence in natural populationsGina L Conte
Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 279:5039-47. 2012..Declines in the probability of gene reuse with increasing age suggest that these biases diverge with time... - The effect of temporal scale on the outcome of trophic cascade experimentsThomas Bell
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Oecologia 134:578-86. 2003..We found that, as predicted by our literature review, there was no decline in the strength of the trophic cascade as the experiment progressed... - Impacts of trout predation on fitness of sympatric sticklebacks and their hybridsSteven M Vamosi
Department of Zoology and Centre for Biodiversity Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
Proc Biol Sci 269:923-30. 2002..The results implicate predation by trout in the divergence of the species but not through increased vulnerability of F(1) hybrids... - Predators favour mimicry in a tropical reef fishM Julian Caley
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity and School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 270:667-72. 2003..prionurus. The relatively broad protective umbrella has probably facilitated the initial evolution of resemblance in the palatable prey species despite the potential hazards of greater conspicuousness... - Character shifts in the defensive armor of sympatric sticklebacksSteven M Vamosi
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
Evolution 58:376-85. 2004..These results suggest that predation may facilitate, rather than hinder, the process of divergence in sympatry... - The genetic architecture of parallel armor plate reduction in threespine sticklebacksPamela F Colosimo
Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
PLoS Biol 2:E109. 2004..These results suggest that a small number of genetic changes can produce major skeletal alterations in natural populations and that the same major locus is used repeatedly when similar traits evolve in different locations... - Genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacksMichael D Shapiro
Department of Developmental Biology and HHMI, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5329, USA
Nature 428:717-23. 2004..Regulatory mutations in major developmental control genes may provide a mechanism for generating rapid skeletal changes in natural populations, while preserving the essential roles of these genes in other processes... - Evidence for ecology's role in speciationJeffrey S McKinnon
Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin 53190, USA
Nature 429:294-8. 2004..Together, these results suggest that speciation may arise largely as a by-product of ecological differences and divergent selection on a small number of phenotypic traits... - Male-male competition and nuptial-colour displacement as a diversifying force in Lake Victoria cichlid fishesOle Seehausen
Molecular and Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
Proc Biol Sci 271:1345-53. 2004..We suggest that male-male competition is an important and previously neglected agent of diversification among haplochromine cichlid fishes... - The master sex-determination locus in threespine sticklebacks is on a nascent Y chromosomeCatherine L Peichel
Department of Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
Curr Biol 14:1416-24. 2004..Here, we investigate the genetic and chromosomal mechanisms that underlie sex determination in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)... - Widespread parallel evolution in sticklebacks by repeated fixation of Ectodysplasin allelesPamela F Colosimo
Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5329, USA
Science 307:1928-33. 2005.... - cis-Regulatory changes in Kit ligand expression and parallel evolution of pigmentation in sticklebacks and humansCraig T Miller
HHMI and Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Cell 131:1179-89. 2007..These experiments suggest that regulatory changes in Kitlg contribute to natural variation in vertebrate pigmentation, and that similar genetic mechanisms may underlie rapid evolutionary change in fish and humans... - Parallel evolution of sexual isolation in sticklebacksJanette Wenrick Boughman
Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Evolution 59:361-73. 2005..Body size and color have diverged in a strongly parallel manner, similar to ecological traits. The data implicate ecologically based divergent natural and sexual selection as engines of speciation in this group... - Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeographyGary G Mittelbach
W K Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA
Ecol Lett 10:315-31. 2007..Distinguishing the roles of history, speciation and extinction in the origin of the latitudinal gradient represents a major challenge to future research...