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A selective advantage to immigrant genes in a Daphnia metapopulationDieter Ebert
Zoologisches Institut, Universitat Basel, Rheinsprung 9, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Science 295:485-8. 2002..This can affect the persistence of local populations and the entire metapopulation...
Reproductive isolation and local adaptation quantified for a chromosome inversion in a malaria mosquitoDiego Ayala
Section of Integrative Biology C 0930, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Evolution 67:946-58. 2013..The inversion is also implicated in strong assortative mating. In the savannah, the two homozygote forms show 92% reproductive isolation, suggesting that this one inversion can generate most of the genetic barriers needed for speciation...
Evolutionary rescue by beneficial mutations in environments that change in space and timeMark Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 368:20120082. 2013..This critical speed limit, which is proportional to the mutation's maximum selective advantage, represents an absolute constraint on the potential of locally adapted mutations to contribute to evolutionary rescue...- Sexual selection and sex linkageMark Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, 1 University Station C 0930, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Evolution 58:683-91. 2004..g., X-linked preferences and autosomal displays), the good-genes mechanism is particularly powerful. These theoretical results suggest empirical tests based on the comparative method... - Sexual selection can constrain sympatric speciationMark Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:687-93. 2004..We show that this effect can substantially impede sympatric speciation. Our results emphasize the need for data on the strength of the stabilizing component of selection generated by mating in natural populations... - Direct estimation of genetic principal components: simplified analysis of complex phenotypesMark Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Genetics 168:2295-306. 2004..We develop these concepts for both multivariate and function-valued phenotypes and illustrate their application in the restricted maximum-likelihood framework... - Wright meets AD: not all landscapes are adaptiveM Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
J Evol Biol 18:1166-9. 2005 - Chromosome inversions, local adaptation and speciationMark Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin 78712, USA
Genetics 173:419-34. 2006..We discuss data that support the hypothesis, review other mechanisms for inversion evolution, and suggest possible tests... - Patterns of quantitative genetic variation in multiple dimensionsMark Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, 1 University Station C 0930, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Genetica 136:271-84. 2009.... - Patterns of neutral genetic variation on recombining sex chromosomesMark Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Genetics 184:1141-52. 2010..The results may be useful for testing hypotheses regarding how new sex chromosomes originate and how selection acts upon them... - Male-biased mutation, sex linkage, and the rate of adaptive evolutionMark Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University Station C 0930, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Evolution 58:437-40. 2004..Male-biased mutation could cause adaptive changes to accumulate more readily on certain kinds of chromosomes and favor animals with Z-W sex determination to have rapidly evolving male sexual displays... - The strength of indirect selection on female mating preferencesM Kirkpatrick
Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin 78712, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94:1282-6. 1997.... - Artificial selection on phenotypically plastic traitsM Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin 78712, USA
Genet Res 74:265-70. 1999..Methods for estimating genetic covariance functions are reviewed... - General models of multilocus evolutionMark Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Genetics 161:1727-50. 2002..We illustrate the methods by finding the effect of natural selection, sexual selection, mutation, and migration on the genetic composition of a population... - Reinforcement during ecological speciationM Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology C0930, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Proc Biol Sci 268:1259-63. 2001..When genetic variation in the ecological trait is caused by many loci, stabilizing selection on it further contributes to reinforcement... - Reinforcement and divergence under assortative matingM Kirkpatrick
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin 78712, USA
Proc Biol Sci 267:1649-55. 2000..Additional selection against hybrid genetic incompatibilities reduces the effective migration rate and allows greater divergence. The role of assortment in speciation is discussed in the light of these results... - Mate choiceMichael J Ryan
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Curr Biol 17:R313-6. 2007 - Reinforcement and sex linkageDavid W Hall
Section of Integrative Biology, 1 University Station C 0930, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Evolution 60:908-21. 2006..We find that reinforcement can lead to complete reproductive isolation in some cases but not others and that the mode of inheritance can determine which outcome occurs... - Reinforcement and the genetics of hybrid incompatibilitiesAlan R Lemmon
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Genetics 173:1145-55. 2006..Our simulations also show that incompatibilities that evolve in allopatry by drift or weak selection are likely to be lost by swamping during secondary contact, even when selection against hybrids is strong... - Gene flow and the coevolution of parasite rangeScott L Nuismer
1 University Station C0930, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Evolution 57:746-54. 2003..As a consequence, reciprocal adaptation between host and parasite can become uncoupled from the rate of host gene flow... - The reinforcement of mating preferences on an islandM Kirkpatrick
Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Genetics 151:865-84. 1999..Reinforcement of the preference is also affected by the number of epistatically interacting genes involved in incompatibility, independent of the overall intensity of selection against hybrids... - When sources become sinks: migrational meltdown in heterogeneous habitatsO Ronce
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin 78712, USA
Evolution 55:1520-31. 2001..Analysis of our model also shows cases of hysteresis in which small transient changes in the landscape structure or accidental demographic disturbances have irreversible effects on the evolution of specialization... - Cryptic recombination in the ever-young sex chromosomes of Hylid frogsR F Guerrero
Section of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
J Evol Biol 25:1947-54. 2012..We estimate that rate to be approximately 10(5) times smaller than that between X chromosomes. Our findings support the notion that very low recombination rate may be sufficient to maintain homomorphism in sex chromosomes... - Effects of the [PSI+] prion on rates of adaptation in yeastS B Joseph
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
J Evol Biol 21:773-80. 2008..A major factor affecting the rate of adaptation was initial fitness in the new environment: lines with low initial fitness evolved faster than lines with high initial fitness... - Species range expansion by beneficial mutationsK D Behrman
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
J Evol Biol 24:665-75. 2011..Sexual reproduction allows for larger range expansions and adaptation to more extreme environments than asexual reproduction... - Reproductive character displacement is not the only possible outcome of reinforcementA R Lemmon
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
J Evol Biol 17:177-83. 2004..We conclude that the absence of reproductive character displacement is not evidence against the operation of reinforcement... - Runaway sexual selection when female preferences are directly selectedD W Hall
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin 78712, USA
Evolution 54:1862-9. 2000..We analyze the causes of the runaway seen in a model developed by Iwasa and Pomiankowski (1995)... - A model for chloroplast captureAnne Tsitrone
Section of Integrative Biology C0930, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Evolution 57:1776-82. 2003..We discuss empirical predictions that can be used to test this mechanism... - Sex chromosomes and male ornaments: a comparative evaluation in ray-finned fishesJudith E Mank
Department of Genetics, Life Sciences Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Biol Sci 273:233-6. 2006..Results suggest that sex-determination mechanism is at best a relatively minor factor affecting the outcomes of sexual selection in ray-finned fishes... - Restricted maximum likelihood estimation of genetic principal components and smoothed covariance matricesKarin Meyer
Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia
Genet Sel Evol 37:1-30. 2005..It is shown that reduced rank estimation can reduce computational requirements of multivariate analyses substantially. An application to the analysis of eight traits recorded via live ultrasound scanning of beef cattle is given... - Sensory ecology: in sight of speciationMark Kirkpatrick
Nature 455:601-2. 2008 - The evolution of infidelity in socially monogamous passerines: the strength of direct and indirect selection on extrapair copulation behavior in femalesGoran Arnqvist
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, University of Uppsala, SE 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Am Nat 165:S26-37. 2005.... - Up hill, down dale: quantitative genetics of curvaceous traitsKarin Meyer
Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales 2351, Australia
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1443-55. 2005..It is shown that direct estimation of the leading principal components of covariance functions is feasible and advantageous. Extensions to multi-dimensional analyses are discussed...