Daniel M Weinreich

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Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Rapid evolutionary escape by large populations from local fitness peaks is likely in nature
    Daniel M Weinreich
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Evolution 59:1175-82. 2005
  2. ncbi Perspective: Sign epistasis and genetic constraint on evolutionary trajectories
    Daniel M Weinreich
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Evolution 59:1165-74. 2005
  3. ncbi Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins
    Daniel M Weinreich
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Science 312:111-4. 2006
  4. ncbi The rank ordering of genotypic fitness values predicts genetic constraint on natural selection on landscapes lacking sign epistasis
    Daniel M Weinreich
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Genetics 171:1397-405. 2005
  5. ncbi Mutational reversions during adaptive protein evolution
    Mark A DePristo
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, MA, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 24:1608-10. 2007
  6. ncbi Temporal constraints on the incorporation of regulatory mutants in evolutionary pathways
    Kyle M Brown
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 26:2455-62. 2009
  7. ncbi Missense meanderings in sequence space: a biophysical view of protein evolution
    Mark A DePristo
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Nat Rev Genet 6:678-87. 2005
  8. ncbi Patterns and mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in marine microbes
    Martin F Polz
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:2009-21. 2006
  9. ncbi Stepwise acquisition of pyrimethamine resistance in the malaria parasite
    Elena R Lozovsky
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12025-30. 2009
  10. ncbi Widespread genetic exchange among terrestrial bacteriophages
    Olin K Silander
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:19009-14. 2005

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Publications11

  1. ncbi Rapid evolutionary escape by large populations from local fitness peaks is likely in nature
    Daniel M Weinreich
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Evolution 59:1175-82. 2005
    ..Thus, counterintuitively, mass selection alone offers a biologically realistic resolution to the problem of evolutionary escape from local fitness peaks in natural populations...
  2. ncbi Perspective: Sign epistasis and genetic constraint on evolutionary trajectories
    Daniel M Weinreich
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Evolution 59:1165-74. 2005
    ..These theoretical and empirical considerations imply that strong genetic constraint on the selective accessibility of trajectories to high fitness genotypes may exist and suggest specific areas of investigation for future research...
  3. ncbi Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins
    Daniel M Weinreich
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Science 312:111-4. 2006
    ..This implies that the protein tape of life may be largely reproducible and even predictable...
  4. ncbi The rank ordering of genotypic fitness values predicts genetic constraint on natural selection on landscapes lacking sign epistasis
    Daniel M Weinreich
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Genetics 171:1397-405. 2005
    ..This statistical association is robust to population size, permitting general inferences about some of the characteristics of fitness rank orderings responsible for genetic constraint on natural selection...
  5. ncbi Mutational reversions during adaptive protein evolution
    Mark A DePristo
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, MA, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 24:1608-10. 2007
    ..Altogether, this discovery highlights the unusual and potentially circuitous routes natural selection can follow during adaptation...
  6. ncbi Temporal constraints on the incorporation of regulatory mutants in evolutionary pathways
    Kyle M Brown
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 26:2455-62. 2009
    ..A mathematical model of beta-lactam resistance is examined in detail and shown to be consistent with the observed results...
  7. ncbi Missense meanderings in sequence space: a biophysical view of protein evolution
    Mark A DePristo
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Nat Rev Genet 6:678-87. 2005
    ..We then advance a biophysical model of protein evolution that helps us to understand phenomena that range from the dynamics of molecular adaptation to the clock-like rate of protein evolution...
  8. ncbi Patterns and mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in marine microbes
    Martin F Polz
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:2009-21. 2006
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  9. ncbi Stepwise acquisition of pyrimethamine resistance in the malaria parasite
    Elena R Lozovsky
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12025-30. 2009
    ..Our results also suggest an explanation for why I164L is detected in Southeast Asia and South America, but not at significant frequencies in Africa...
  10. ncbi Widespread genetic exchange among terrestrial bacteriophages
    Olin K Silander
    Department of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:19009-14. 2005
    ..This extraordinary rate of genetic exchange between highly unrelated individuals is unprecedented in any taxa. We discuss our results in light of the biological species concept applied to viruses...
  11. ncbi Empirical fitness landscapes reveal accessible evolutionary paths
    Frank J Poelwijk
    FOM Institute AMOLF, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Nature 445:383-6. 2007
    ..With this first view on empirical evolutionary landscapes, we can now finally start asking why particular evolutionary paths are taken...