Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Articles to discuss fall semester 2011

Papers that we will discuss between September and November 2011:

On the origin of species: insights from the ecological genomics of lake whitefish
Bernatchez et al. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 12 June 2010 vol. 365 no. 1547 1783-1800

Adaptation in the age of ecological genomics: insights from parallelism and convergence
Elmer and Meyer. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, June 2011, Vol. 26, No. 6

Genome-wide approaches to the study of adaptive gene expression evolution
Fraser. BioEssays Volume 33, Issue 6, pages 469–477, June 2011

Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli
Barrick et al. Nature 461, 1243-1247 (29 October 2009)

Population Genomics of Parallel Adaptation in Threespine Stickleback using Sequenced RAD Tags
Hohenlohe et al. PLoS Genet 6(2): e1000862

A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing
The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium. Nature 467, 1061–1073 (28 October 2010)

Plasmodium falciparum genome-wide scans for positive selection, recombination hot spots and resistance to antimalarial drugs
Mu et al. Nature Genetics 42, 268–271 (2010)

Classic Selective Sweeps Were Rare in Recent Human Evolution
Hernandez et al. Science 331, 920 (2011)