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Evolution and stability of the G-matrix on a landscape with a moving optimumAdam G Jones
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Evolution 58:1639-54. 2004..One major remaining challenge is to gain a sufficient understanding of the G-matrix to allow the confident estimation of G...- Sea turtles: old viruses and new tricksAdam G Jones
Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77845, USA
Curr Biol 14:R842-3. 2004..New research has led to the disturbing conclusion that recent, human-induced environmental changes are responsible... - Stability of the G-matrix in a population experiencing pleiotropic mutation, stabilizing selection, and genetic driftAdam G Jones
School of Biology, 310 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Evolution 57:1747-60. 2003..Rather, we should expect the G-matrix to be extremely stable for some suites of characters and unstable for others over similar spans of evolutionary time... - Methods of parentage analysis in natural populationsAdam G Jones
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 310 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Mol Ecol 12:2511-23. 2003..Our survey leads to some important insights with respect to the utility of the different approaches. This review should serve as a useful guide to anyone who wishes to embark on the study of parentage... 
Sympatric speciation as a consequence of male pregnancy in seahorsesAdam G Jones
School of Biology, 310 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:6598-603. 2003....- The evolution of alternative cryptic female choice strategies in age-structured populationsAdam G Jones
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 310 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Evolution 56:2530-6. 2002..They also illustrate that the evolution of choice strategies in females may be complex and may mirror in some important respects the evolution of alternative mating tactics in males... - The mutation matrix and the evolution of evolvabilityAdam G Jones
Department of Biology, 3258 TAMU, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
Evolution 61:727-45. 2007.... 
Environmental, demographic, and genetic mating system variation among five geographically distinct dusky pipefish (Syngnathus floridae) populationsKenyon B Mobley
Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 3258, USA
Mol Ecol 18:1476-90. 2009..Overall, this study confirms the expectation that geographical variation in mating systems is widespread and shows that the dusky pipefish is an excellent model for continued research into the factors affecting mating systems in nature...- Gene cooption without duplication during the evolution of a male-pregnancy gene in pipefishApril Harlin-Cognato
Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 3258, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:19407-12. 2006..These findings contribute to a growing understanding of morphological innovation, a critically important but poorly understood process in evolutionary biology... - Male pregnancy and the evolution of body segmentation in seahorses and pipefishesEric A Hoffman
Department of Biology, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA
Evolution 60:404-10. 2006..Body segmentation may thus afford excellent opportunities for comparative study of homologous complex traits among disparate vertebrate taxa... - Post-copulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in the evolution of male pregnancyKimberly A Paczolt
Department of Biology, 3258 TAMU, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77845, USA
Nature 464:401-4. 2010..Hence, the male brood pouch of syngnathid fishes, which nurtures offspring, also seems to have an important role as an arbiter of conflict between the sexes... - Validation of Bateman's principles: a genetic study of sexual selection and mating patterns in the rough-skinned newtAdam G Jones
Department of Zoology, 3029 Cordley Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Proc Biol Sci 269:2533-9. 2002.... - Genetic structure in the coral-reef-associated Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderniEric A Hoffman
School of Biology, 310 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Mol Ecol 14:1367-75. 2005.... - A practical guide to methods of parentage analysisAdam G Jones
Department of Biology, 3258 TAMU, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Mol Ecol Resour 10:6-30. 2010..Overall, we find that parentage analysis is feasible and satisfying in most systems, and we try to provide a simple roadmap to help other scientists navigate the confusing topography of statistical techniques... - An analysis of selection on a colour polymorphism in the northern leopard frogEric A Hoffman
Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA
Mol Ecol 15:2627-41. 2006..This study illustrates the importance of using a locus comparison approach to detect evidence for selective maintenance before conducting studies to measure the selective mechanisms maintaining a polymorphism... - Population Structure of the Gulf Pipefish in and around Mobile Bay and the Northern Gulf of MexicoCharlyn Partridge
The Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843
J Hered 103:821-30. 2012..It is also possible that different selective pressures between coastal and estuarine habitats may be contributing to the genetic differences between these populations... - Short-term exposure to a synthetic estrogen disrupts mating dynamics in a pipefishCharlyn Partridge
Department of Biology, Texas A and M Univ, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Horm Behav 58:800-7. 2010..However, disrupting these processes could have profound effects on the viability of exposed populations... - Molecular parentage analysis in experimental newt populations: the response of mating system measures to variation in the operational sex ratioAdam G Jones
Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
Am Nat 164:444-56. 2004..Overall, our results show that Bateman's principles provide the best available method for the statistical characterization of mating systems in nature... - A theoretical quantitative genetic study of negative ecological interactions and extinction times in changing environmentsAdam G Jones
Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
BMC Evol Biol 8:119. 2008..Existing models of evolution and extinction in changing environments focus only on single species, even though the dynamics of extinction almost certainly depend upon the nature of species interactions... - Multiple mating and a low incidence of cuckoldry for nest-holding males in the two-spotted goby, Gobiusculus flavescensKenyon B Mobley
Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
BMC Evol Biol 9:6. 2009.... - A microarray analysis of sex- and gonad-biased gene expression in the zebrafish: evidence for masculinization of the transcriptomeClayton M Small
Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX, USA
BMC Genomics 10:579. 2009..Here we use a microarray assessment of sex- and gonad-biased gene expression to test this hypothesis in zebrafish... - Male pregnancyAdam G Jones
School of Biology, 310 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Curr Biol 13:R791. 2003 - On the opportunity for sexual selection, the Bateman gradient and the maximum intensity of sexual selectionAdam G Jones
Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
Evolution 63:1673-84. 2009.... - Mate choice and sexual selection: what have we learned since Darwin?Adam G Jones
Department of Biology, Texas A and M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:10001-8. 2009..Although we have made significant progress in some areas of sexual selection research, we still have much to accomplish... - Stabilizing selection on behavior and morphology masks positive selection on the signal in a salamander pheromone signaling complexRichard A Watts
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Mol Biol Evol 21:1032-41. 2004..Thus, different selection modes prevail at different levels in this reproductive functional complex. Evolutionary studies of integrated sets of characters therefore require separate analyses of selective action at each level... - Topping off: a mechanism of first-male sperm precedence in a vertebrateAdam G Jones
Department of Zoology, 3029 Cordley Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:2078-81. 2002.... - Sexually selected females in the monogamous Western Australian seahorseCharlotta Kvarnemo
Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Proc Biol Sci 274:521-5. 2007.... - Multiple paternity in a natural population of a salamander with long-term sperm storageErika M Adams
Department of Zoology, 3029 Cordley Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Mol Ecol 14:1803-10. 2005..Nevertheless, the number of males siring offspring per clutch in D. ocoee did not differ appreciably from that in other species of urodeles with shorter storage periods... - Genetic mating systems and reproductive natural histories of fishes: lessons for ecology and evolutionJohn C Avise
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA
Annu Rev Genet 36:19-45. 2002..Additional phenomena addressed by genetic parentage analyses in fishes include clustered mutations, filial cannibalism, and local population size. All results are discussed in the context of relevant behavioral and evolutionary theory...