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| B M FitzpatrickSummaryAffiliation: University of Tennessee Country: USA Publications
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Estimating ancestry and heterozygosity of hybrids using molecular markersBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
BMC Evol Biol 12:131. 2012....
Retention of low-fitness genotypes over six decades of admixture between native and introduced tiger salamandersJarrett R Johnson
Department of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
BMC Evol Biol 10:147. 2010..Additionally, we examined the inheritance of quantitative phenotypic variation to better understand how evolution has progressed since secondary contact...
Hybrid dysfunction: population genetic and quantitative genetic perspectivesBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
Am Nat 171:491-8. 2008..This unified theoretical framework encourages application of quantitative genetic methods to the study of speciation...
Rapid spread of invasive genes into a threatened native speciesBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:3606-10. 2010....
Power and sample size for nested analysis of molecular varianceBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Mol Ecol 18:3961-6. 2009....
Pattern, process and geographic modes of speciationB M Fitzpatrick
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
J Evol Biol 22:2342-7. 2009..Advances in the study of speciation have come from studies of the processes that constrain or promote divergence, and how they are affected by geography...
Rapid fixation of non-native alleles revealed by genome-wide SNP analysis of hybrid tiger salamandersBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
BMC Evol Biol 9:176. 2009..To assess variation of admixture dynamics, we scored a large panel of markers in five wild hybrid populations formed when Barred Tiger Salamanders were introduced into the range of California Tiger Salamanders...
Frequency-dependent selection by wild birds promotes polymorphism in model salamandersBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
BMC Ecol 9:12. 2009..Polymorphism for presence/absence of a dorsal stripe is widespread in many salamander species and its maintenance is a long-standing mystery...
What, if anything, is sympatric speciation?B M Fitzpatrick
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
J Evol Biol 21:1452-9. 2008..Rather, we believe this context can be better understood by modelling and measuring quantities, such as gene flow and selection, rather than assigning cases to discrete categories like sympatric and allopatric speciation...
Distinctiveness in the face of gene flow: hybridization between specialist and generalist gartersnakesBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Mol Ecol 17:4107-17. 2008....
Dobzhansky-Muller model of hybrid dysfunction supported by poor burst-speed performance in hybrid tiger salamandersB M Fitzpatrick
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
J Evol Biol 21:342-51. 2008..The approach demonstrated here can be applied to a broad array of nonmodel species, potentially leading to important generalizations about the genetics of hybrid dysfunction...
Hybrid vigor between native and introduced salamanders raises new challenges for conservationBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:15793-8. 2007..The ecological consequences for other native species are unknown...
Introduction history and habitat variation explain the landscape genetics of hybrid tiger salamandersBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996, USA
Ecol Appl 17:598-608. 2007..Management favoring natural habitat characteristics may substantially decrease the rate of spread of introduced alleles...
The geography of mammalian speciation: mixed signals from phylogenies and range mapsBenjamin M Fitzpatrick
Section of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology University of California, Davis 95616, USA
Evolution 60:601-15. 2006..Yet, even if few clades provide clear signals, meta-analytic approaches such as ARC may set bounds on the prevalence of alternative modes of speciation...
