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The rate of genome stabilization in homoploid hybrid speciesC Alex Buerkle
Department of Botany, 1000 E University Ave, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
Evolution 62:266-75. 2008..Our modeling of genome stabilization provides an upper bound for the time interval for reproductive isolation to be established and confirms the rapid nature of homoploid hybrid speciation...
Admixture as the basis for genetic mappingC Alex Buerkle
Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 23:686-94. 2008..Our aim in this review is to provide a snapshot of previous and ongoing research, existing methods and challenges, the nature of questions that can be investigated and prospects for the future of admixture mapping...
Ecological context shapes hybridization dynamicsC Alex Buerkle
Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Mol Ecol 18:2077-9. 2009..This research raises several questions about the dynamics of hybridization in this well-studied species complex, and highlights methodological and conceptual issues associated with contemporary research on hybridization...
The n = 1 constraint in population genomicsC A Buerkle
Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Mol Ecol 20:1575-81. 2011..Future progress in population genomics will follow from research that recognizes the 'n = 1 constraint' and that utilizes appropriate and explicit evolutionary models for analysis...
Genomic regions with a history of divergent selection affect fitness of hybrids between two butterfly speciesZachariah Gompert
Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
Evolution 66:2167-81. 2012..Interestingly, concordance of differentiation and introgression was only partial. We discuss multiple, complementary explanations for this partial concordance...
Genomic admixture analysis in European Populus spp. reveals unexpected patterns of reproductive isolation and matingChristian Lexer
University of Wyoming, Department of Botany, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Genetics 186:699-712. 2010..Datasets such as this one are still rare in studies of natural hybrid zones but should soon become more common as high throughput genotyping and resequencing become feasible in nonmodel species...
Hybrid speciation and independent evolution in lineages of alpine butterfliesChris C Nice
Department of Biology, Population and Conservation Biology Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666 E mail Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 Department of Biology MS 314, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557
Evolution 67:1055-68. 2013..These lineages have different genome admixture proportions and distinctive trait combinations that suggest unique and independent evolutionary histories...
Genome-wide association genetics of an adaptive trait in lodgepole pineThomas L Parchman
Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Mol Ecol 21:2991-3005. 2012..Our results provide a first genome-wide association map of serotiny in pines and demonstrate an inexpensive and efficient method for generating population genomic data...
Genomics of isolation in hybridsZachariah Gompert
Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:439-50. 2012....
Bayesian analysis of molecular variance in pyrosequences quantifies population genetic structure across the genome of Lycaeides butterfliesZachariah Gompert
Department of Botany, Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Mol Ecol 19:2455-73. 2010..This study demonstrates the potential of using genome-level data to better understand the phylogeographic history of populations...
A powerful regression-based method for admixture mapping of isolation across the genome of hybridsZachariah Gompert
Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 82071, USA
Mol Ecol 18:1207-24. 2009....
Transcriptome sequencing in an ecologically important tree species: assembly, annotation, and marker discoveryThomas L Parchman
Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
BMC Genomics 11:180. 2010..Here we describe a sequencing study of expressed genes from P. contorta, including their assembly and annotation, and their potential for molecular marker development to support population and association genetic studies...
Low levels of population genetic structure in Pinus contorta (Pinaceae) across a geographic mosaic of co-evolutionThomas L Parchman
Department of Botany, Dept 3165, 1000 E University Ave, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
Am J Bot 98:669-79. 2011....
Cross-species transferability of SSR loci developed from transciptome sequencing in lodgepole pineMark R Lesser
Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Mol Ecol Resour 12:448-55. 2012..Our results indicate the utility of mining pyrosequenced EST collections for gene-based SSRs and provide a source of molecular markers that should bolster evolutionary genetic investigations across the genus Pinus...
A hierarchical Bayesian model for next-generation population genomicsZachariah Gompert
Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
Genetics 187:903-17. 2011..This model will facilitate the population genetic analysis of a wide range of organisms on the basis of next-generation sequence data...
Bayesian estimation of genomic clinesZachariah Gompert
Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Mol Ecol 20:2111-27. 2011....
Genomic consequences of multiple speciation processes in a stick insectPatrik Nosil
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:5058-65. 2012..Future work could adopt experimental, mapping and functional approaches to directly test which genetic regions are affected by selection and determine their physical location in the genome...
De novo characterization of the Timema cristinae transcriptome facilitates marker discovery and inference of genetic divergenceAaron A Comeault
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Mol Ecol Resour 12:549-61. 2012..The results suggest variable levels of genetic divergence and gene flow among taxon pairs and genes and illustrate a first step towards future genomic work in Timema...
