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The evolution of competition and policing: opposing selection within and among groupsYaniv Brandvain
Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA
BMC Evol Biol 7:203. 2007..We examine these possibilities in a series of explicit population-genetic models...
Opposing levels of selection can cause neutrality: mating patterns and maternal-fetal interactionsM J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA
Evolution 54:290-2. 2000..This pattern of selection is remarkably similar to that observed for the maternal effect selfish genes, Medea in flour beetles and scat in the mouse, and the Gp-9 gene in the fire ant...- Multilevel and kin selection in a connected worldMichael J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Nature 463:E8-9; discussion E9-10. 2010.... - Reversing mother's curse: selection on male mitochondrial fitness effectsMichael J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405, USA
Evolution 63:1084-9. 2009..We discuss the implications of our findings for the evolution of organelles and endosymbionts and genomic conflict... - The co-evolutionary genetics of ecological communitiesMichael J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 East Third Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 3700, USA
Nat Rev Genet 8:185-95. 2007.... - Evolution: postponing extinction by polyandryMichael J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA
Curr Biol 20:R239-40. 2010..A driving X causes highly female-biased sex ratios and the risk of extinction. Polyandry can rescue a population from extinction... - Cyto-nuclear epistasis: two-locus random genetic drift in hermaphroditic and dioecious speciesMichael J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Evolution 60:643-59. 2006..g., Wolbachia), have the potential to release heritable nuclear variation as they sweep through a host population, supporting the view that cytoplasmic introgression plays an important role in adaptation and speciation... - Estimating the strength of sexual selection from Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA diversityMichael J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Evolution 58:1613-6. 2004..8% of total selection, supporting Darwin's proposal that sexual selection has played a significant role in human evolution and the recent proposal regarding a shift from polygamy to monogamy in humans... - Sexual selection: harem size and the variance in male reproductive successMichael J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405, USA
Am Nat 164:E83-9. 2004..A review of mating system data reveals that in nature the median ratio for Vharem/H is 1.04, but as H increases, females tend to become more aggregated across mating males with V(harem) two to three times larger than H... - Maternal expression relaxes constraint on innovation of the anterior determinant, bicoidMichael S Barker
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
PLoS Genet 1:e57. 2005..Our results suggest that the accelerated rate of evolution observed for bcd is owing, at least partly, to variation generated by relaxed selective constraint... - A genetic interpretation of the variation in inbreeding depressionJacob A Moorad
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Genetics 170:1373-84. 2005..As quantitative predictions of selection depend upon understanding genetic variation, our approach reveals the important difference between how inbreeding depression is measured experimentally and how it is viewed by selection... 
Microevolutionary support for a developmental hourglass: gene expression patterns shape sequence variation and divergence in DrosophilaTami Cruickshank
Biology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Evol Dev 10:583-90. 2008..This pattern is obscured by genes with both maternal and zygotic expression, which experience the strongest evolutionary constraint...- A synthetic review of the theory of gynodioecyMeaghan Saur Jacobs
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Am Nat 161:837-51. 2003..Because our approach increases the number and specificity of theoretical predictions, we argue that it provides a better framework for empirical testing... - The functional transfer of genes from the mitochondria to the nucleus: the effects of selection, mutation, population size and rate of self-fertilizationYaniv Brandvain
Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 E Third St, Bloomington, 47405, USA
Genetics 182:1129-39. 2009..This latter effect, however, is much weaker than the former. Our results are relevant to understanding the probabilities of fixation when loci in different genomes interact... - Genetic differentiation among wild populations of Tribolium castaneum estimated using microsatellite markersDouglas W Drury
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
J Hered 100:732-41. 2009..We discuss the possibility that local extinction and kin-structured colonization have increased the level of genetic differentiation between Tribolium populations... - The genetic signature of conditional expressionJ David Van Dyken
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Genetics 184:557-70. 2010..Our theory suggests that null hypotheses for levels of standing genetic variation and sequence divergence must be corrected to account for the frequency of expression of the genes under study... - Toward a population genetic framework of developmental evolution: the costs, limits, and consequences of phenotypic plasticityEmilie C Snell-Rood
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 47405, USA
Bioessays 32:71-81. 2010..This tradeoff has broad implications for understanding the origin and maintenance of plasticity and may contribute to a better understanding of the role of plasticity in the origin, diversification, and loss of phenotypic diversity... - Sexual selection favors female-biased sex ratios: the balance between the opposing forces of sex-ratio selection and sexual selectionMichael J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Am Nat 162:403-14. 2003..We discuss our findings in the context of the primary sex-ratio biases observed in strongly sexually selected species and indicate how this perspective can assist the experimental study of sex ratio evolution... - Gene co-inheritance and gene transferYaniv Brandvain
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Science 315:1685. 2007..We suggest that reproductive modes, such as selfing and vegetative reproduction, conserve adaptive mitonuclear gene combinations, allowing functional transfer, whereas outcrossing prevents transfer by breaking up these combinations... - Population differentiation in the beetle Tribolium castaneum. II. Haldane'S rule and incipient speciationJeffery P Demuth
Indiana University, Department of Biology, 1001 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Evolution 61:694-9. 2007.... - Paternal leakage sustains the cytoplasmic polymorphism underlying gynodioecy but remains invasible by nuclear restorersMichael J Wade
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Am Nat 166:592-602. 2005..Paternal leakage enhances the stability of joint cytonuclear polymorphism by reducing the chance that a CMS allele is lost by drift... - The evolutionary origin and elaboration of sociality in the aculeate Hymenoptera: maternal effects, sib-social effects, and heterochronyTimothy A Linksvayer
Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Q Rev Biol 80:317-36. 2005.... - On the theoretical and empirical framework for studying genetic interactions within and among speciesJeffery P Demuth
Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Am Nat 165:524-36. 2005.... - Maternal expression increases the rate of bicoid evolution by relaxing selective constraintJeffery P Demuth
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Genetica 129:37-43. 2007..We discuss general implications of our findings for the role of maternal effect genes in early developmental patterning... - Population differentiation in the beetleTribolium castaneum. I. Genetic architectureJeffery P Demuth
Indiana University, Department of Biology, 1001 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Evolution 61:494-509. 2007.... - Genetic caste determination in harvester ants: possible origin and maintenance by cyto-nuclear epistasisTimothy A Linksvayer
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Ecology 87:2185-93. 2006..Finally, we propose experiments and observations that might help resolve the origin and maintenance of this unusual system of caste determination... - The evolutionary ecology of metacommunitiesMark C Urban
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 23:311-7. 2008..We demonstrate that such an approach generates several novel outcomes and substantially enhances understanding of both ecological and evolutionary phenomena in three core research areas at the interface of ecology and evolution... - A retrospective study of weight changes and the contributing factors in short term adult psychiatric inpatientsJames L Megna
Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Ann Clin Psychiatry 18:163-7. 2006..The authors endeavored to determine if there is significant weight gain during acute psychiatric inpatient hospitalization for adults and, if so, what are the contributing factors... - Potential genetic variance and the domestication of maizeTanya M Gottlieb
Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle 98109-1024, USA
Bioessays 24:685-9. 2002..1 This work is the first to demonstrate hidden variance for selected (agronomically 'adaptive') traits in a well-characterized model for morphological evolution...
Research Grants
- Effect of coinheritance on host-pathogen coevolutionMichael J Wade; Fiscal Year: 2010..This proposal will develop genetic theory for addressing how the co-inheritance of host genes and host pathogens affects the evolution of disease virulence. ..
- Epistasis: its role in complex tratis, gene expression and speciationMICHAEL J contact WADE; Fiscal Year: 2010..Although single genes involved in reproductive isolation between species have been identified, the gene combinations and their specific causal interactions are not known. ..
- Epistasis: its role in complex tratis, gene expression and speciationMichael Wade; Fiscal Year: 2009..Although single genes involved in reproductive isolation between species have been identified, the gene combinations and their specific causal interactions are not known. ..
- Epistasis: Its role in complex traits and speciationMichael Wade; Fiscal Year: 2006..castaneum and T. freemani may represent either, a sample of the genes posing incipient barriers, to gene exchange between populations of T. castaneum, or it may be unique. ..
- Epistasis: its role in complex tratis, gene expression and speciationMICHAEL J contact WADE; Fiscal Year: 2010..abstract_text> ..