MO: To read and discuss research papers and books that use mathematics to understand biology.

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Papers

2024

Date Paper
20th June 2024 Chapter 2 Rice Chapter 2 of Evolutionary Theory by Rice
13th June 2024 Chapter 1 Rice Chapter 1 of Evolutionary Theory by Rice
6th June 2024 Chapter 1 Rice Chapter 1 of Evolutionary Theory by Rice
11th March 2024 Malet 1972 Looking at the notion of carrying capacity
29th January 2023 Karlin McGregor 1972 Polymorphisms for Genetic and Ecological Systems and Weak Coupling

2023

Date Paper
5th April 2023 Veller 2003 Generalization of the Price Equation
22nd March 2023 Kerr 2008 Generalization of the Price Equation
8th February 2023 Fisher pg.30-38 Price 1972 Fisher's fundamental theorem made clear
25th January 2023 Kimura1965 Attainment of quasi linkage equilibrium when gene fequencies are changing by natural selection

2022

Date Paper
7th November 2022 McGregorKarlin1971 Application of Method of Small Parameters to Multi-Niche Population Genetic Models
24th October 2022 McGregorKarlin1971 Application of Method of Small Parameters to Multi-Niche Population Genetic Models
26th Sept 2022 Lewontin1970 Units of Selection
8th Aug 2022 MaynardSmith1983 Models of Evolution
25th July 2022 LevinsResponse1993 Critique and response to Levins Strategy of model building in population biology
11th July 2022 Levins1966 The strategy of model building in population biology
13th June 2022 OttoDayChap15 Chapter 15 of Otto and Day: Analyzing Continuous Stochastic Models-Diffusion in Time and Space
30th May 2022 Gillespie1975 Derivations around selection for variance in offspring number
16th May 2022 Gillespie1977 Gillespie1973 Natural selection for variance in offspring number
4th April 2022 Blanquart et al. 2013 Presentation on local adaptions (optional reading)
21st March 2022 CharlesworthSection9.5 Age structured populations and the evolution of life histories and box 10.2 Otto and Day
7th March 2022 CharlesworthSection9.5 Age structured populations and the evolution of life histories
7th February 2022 Hurford2010 Next-generation tools for evolutionary invasion analysis
24th January 2022 Diekmann2010 , The construction of next-generation matrices for compartmental epidemic models.

2021

Date Paper
8th December 2021 Melbinger et al (2015), The emergence of cooperation from a single mutant during microbial life cycles. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12 20150171.
27th October 2021 Van den Berg et al (2021), Fluctuating environment can negate cheater success due to speed-agility trade-off. Preprint on bioRxiv
13th October 2021 Bury et al (2021), Deep learning for early warning signals of tipping points. PNAS 118(39) e2106140118. Commentary
29th September 2021 Coyne et al (1997), Perspective: A critique of Sewall Wright's shifting balance theory of evolution. Evolution 51(3) 643-671.
15th September 2021 Arani et al (2021), Exit time as a measure of ecological resilience. Science 372 eaay4895. Supplementary material
28th April 2021 Martinossi-Allibert et al (2021), Invasion and maintenance of meiotic drivers in populations of ascomycete fungi. Evolution 75(5) 1150-1169.
17th March 2021 Noble et al (2021), Paracrine behaviors arbitrate parasite-like interactions between tumor subclones. Preprint on bioRxiv
3rd March 2021 Nareddy et al (2020), Dynamical Ising model of spatially coupled ecological oscillators. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17 20200571. Supplementary material
3rd February 2021 Roberts and Heesterbeek (2018), Quantifying the dilution effect for models in ecological epidemiology. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 15 20170791.
20th January 2021 Donahue (2006), Allee effects and conspecific cueing jointly lead to conspecific attraction. Oecologia 149 33-43.
(Author participated in discussion)
6th January 2021 Felsenstein (1974), The evolutionary advantage of recombination. Genetics 78(2) 737-756.
(Author participated in discussion)

2020

Date Paper
25th November 2020 Donnelly (1983), The probability that related individuals share some section of genome identical by descent. Theoretical Population Biology 23 34-63.
28th October 2020 Yamaguchi and Otto (2020), Insights from Fisher’s geometric model on the likelihood of speciation under different histories of environmental change. Evolution 74(8) 1603-1619.
(Authors participated in discussion)
14th October 2020 Ghosh et al (2020), Tail associations in ecological variables and their impact on extinction risk. Ecosphere 11(5) e03132.
30th September 2020 Haigh (1978), The accumulation of deleterious genes in a population: Muller's Ratchet. Theoretical Population Biology 14 251-267.
12th August 2020 Roques et al (2012), Allee effect promotes diversity in traveling waves of colonization. PNAS 109(23) 8828-8833.
20th July 2020 Saltelli et al (2020), Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto. Nature 582 482-484.
8th July 2020 Allen (2011), Eugenics and modern biology: Critiques of Eugenics 1910-1945. Annals of Human Genetics 75 314-325.
(Author participated in discussion)
17th June 2020 Cranmer et al. (2020), The frontier of simulation-based inference. PNAS 117(48) 30055-30062.
3rd June 2020 Lafferty et al. (2015), A general consumer-resource population model. Science 349(6250) 854-857. Supplementary material
20th May 2020 Ellner et al. (2020), Individual specialization and multihost epidemics: Disease spread in plant-pollinator networks. The American Naturalist 195(5) E118-E131.
6th May 2020 Hurford et al. (2010), Next-generation tools for evolutionary invasion analyses. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 7 561-571.
22nd April 2020 Wallinga and Lipsitch (2007), How generation intervals shape the relationship between growth rates and reproductive numbers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274 599-604.
8th April 2020 Tuljapurkar et al. (2020), Skewed distributions of lifetime reproductive success: beyond mean and variance. Ecology Letters 23 748-756. Supplementary material
11th March 2020 Erm and Phillips (2020), Evolution transforms pushed waves into pulled waves. The American Naturalist 195(3) E87-E99.
26th February 2020 Tilman et al. (2020), Evolutionary games with environmental feedbacks. Nature Communications 11 915.
12th February 2020 Rael et al. (2018), Emergent niche structuring leads to increased differences from neutrality in species abundance distributions. Ecology 99(7) 1633-1643.
29th January 2020 Hastings et al. (2018), Transient phenomena in ecology. Science 361(6406) eaat6412.

2019

Date Paper
18th December 2019 Spangenberg et al. (2019), Slowing down wolves to protect boreal caribou populations: a spatial simulation model of linear feature restoration. Ecosphere 10( 10):e02904. Find supplementary material here.
4th December 2019 Constable & Kokko (2018), The rate of facultative sex governs the number of expected mating types in isogamous species. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 1168–1175 (2018) Supplementary material
20th November 2019 Thompson & Fronhofer (2019), The conflict between adaptation and dispersal for maintaining biodiversity in changing environments. PNAS 116 (42) pp.21061-21067 Supplementary material
6th November 2019 Olito & Connallon (2019), Sexually Antagonistic Variation and the Evolution of Dimorphic Sexual Systems. The American Naturalist 193 (5) pp.1345-1354
23d October 2019 Parsons et al. (2010), Some Consequences of Demographic Stochasticity in Population Genetics. Genetics 185(4) pp.1345-1354
10th October 2019 Kidwell et al. (1977), Regions of stable equilibria for models of differential selection in the two sexes under random mating. Genetics 85.1 pp. 171-183.
25th September 2019 Lynch et al. (1991), Adaptive and demographic responses of plankton populations to environmental change. Limnology and Oceanography.
5th June 2019 Bourrat (2019), Evolutionary Transitions in Heritability and Individuality. Theory Biosci.
22nd June 2019 Dieckmann & Law (1996), The dynamical theory of coevolution: a derivation from stochastic ecological processes. J. Math. Biol. 34: 579—612
8th May 2019 Coulson et al. (2017), Modeling Adaptive and Nonadaptive Responses of Populations to Environmental Change Am. Nat. Vol. 190, pp. 313–336.
Janeiro et al. (2017), Towards robust evolutionary inference with integral projection models J. Evol. Biol. 30 270–288.
24th April 2019 Stadler et al. (2015), How well can the exponential-growth coalescent approximate constant-rate birth–death population dynamics? Proc. R. Soc. B 282:20150420.
10th April 2019 Peischl et al. (2013), On the accumulation of deleterious mutations during range expansions. Molecular Ecology, 22.
Peischl and Escoffier. (2015), Expansion load: recessive mutations and the role of standing genetic variation Molecular Ecology, 24.
Peischl et al. (2015), Expansion Load and the Evolutionary Dynamics of a Species Range. The American Naturalist, 185.
13th March 2019 Connallon et al. (2019), Evolutionary consequences for sex-specific selection in variable environments: Four simple models reveal diverse evolutionary outcomes. American Naturalist, 193.
13th February 2019 Rowe & Houle (1996), The lek paradox and the capture of genetic variance by condition dependent traits. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 263: 1415-1421.
23rd January 2019 Wilkinson-Herbots (1998), Genealogy and subpopulation differentiation under various models of population structure. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 6: 535-585.

2018

Date Paper
14th December 2018 Rice (2008), A Stochastic Version of the Price equation Reveals the Interplay of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes in Evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8: 1-16.
30th November 2018 Grafen (2000), Developments of the Price Equation and Natural Selection under Uncertainty. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 267: 1223-1227.
16th November 2018 Kennedy et al. (2018), Altruism in a Volatile World. Nature Letters, 555: 359-362.
Kennedy et al. (2018), Supplementary Material.
2nd November 2018 Bartfield et al. (2011), Evolution in Stage-Structured Populations. American Naturalist, 177: 397-409.
Bartfield et al. (2014) Correction. American Naturalist, 184: 284-287.
19th October 2018 Kotil and Vetsigian (2018), Emergence of evolutionarily stable communities through eco-evolutionary tunnelling. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2: 1644–1653.
5th October 2018 Wade, M. J. (1985), Soft Selection, Hard Selection, Kin Selection, and Group Selection. American Naturalist, 125: 61–73.
Okasha (2004) Multilevel Selection and the Partitioning of Covariance: A Comparison of Three Approaches. Evolution, 58: 486–494.
21st September 2018 Frank, S. A. (2012), Natural selection. IV. The Price equation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25: 1002–1019.
14th September 2018 Allen (2010) Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology.
Chapter 9: Biological Applications of Stochastic Differential Equations
7th September 2018 Allen (2010) Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology.
Chapter 8: Diffusion Processes and Stochastic Differential Equations
9th August 2018 Allen (2010) Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology.
Chapter 6: Continuous-Time Birth and Death Chains
27th July 2018 Allen (2010) Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology.
Chapter 5: Continuous-Time Markov Chains
13th July 2018 Allen (2010) Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology.
Chapter 4: Discrete-Time Branching Processes
29th June 2018 Allen (2010) Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology.
Chapter 3: Biological Applications of Discrete-Time Markov Chains
15th June 2018 Allen (2010) Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology.
Chapter 3: Biological Applications of Discrete-Time Markov Chains
1st June 2018 Allen (2010) Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology.
Chapter 2: Discrete-Time Markov Chains
18th May 2018 Allen (2010) Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology.
Chapter 1: Probability Theory and an Introduction to Stochastic Processes
27th April 2018 Rosenberg (2003) The shapes of neutral gene genealogies in two species: probabilities of monophyly, paraphyly, and polyphyly in a coalescent model.
19th April, 2018 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 6.
5th April, 2018 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 5.
22nd March, 2018 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 4.
22nd February, 2018 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 3.
8th February, 2018 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 2.
25th January, 2018 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 1.
11th January 2018 Maynard Smith & Haigh (1974) The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene

2017

Date Paper
12th December 2017 Starrfelt & Kokko (2012) Bet-hedging -- a triple trade-off between means, variances and correlations
Stearns (2000) Daniel Bernoulli (1738): evolution and economics under ris k
28th November 2017 Barton et al. (2017) The infinitesimal model: definition, derivations and implications
[see also Turelli (2017) Commentary: Fisher's infinitesimal model: A stor y for the ages]
14th November 2017 Haldane (1957) The cost of natural selection
Grant & Flake (1974) Solutions to the cost-of-selection dilemma
Maynard Smith (1968) "Haldane's dilemma" and the rate of evolution
31st October 2017 Visiting researcher Vincent Calvez presents his work on maladaptation in a changing environment
17th October 2017 Quickfall & Marshall (2017) The evolution of mutualism with modifiers
3rd October 2017 Haldane (1964) A defense of beanbag genetics, with commentary from Crow (2008) and Ewens (2008)
8th September 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 9: Distributions of gene frequencies in populations
28th August 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 8: Stochastic processes
11th August 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 7: Properties of a finite population
31st July 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 6: Populations in approximate equilibrium
14th July 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 5: Selection (5.8-5.12)
10th July 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 5: Selection (5.1-5.7)
30th June 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 4: Correlation between relatives and assortative mating
19th June 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 3: Inbreeding
12th June 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 2: Randomly mating populations
2nd June 2017 Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 1: Models of population growth
7th April 2017 Queller (2017) Fundamental theorems of evolution
24th March 2017 Savage et al. (2004) Effects of body size and temperature on population growth
10th March 2017 Wakano et al. (2009) Spatial dynamics of ecological public goods SOM
10th February 2017 Good and Desai (2014) Deleterious passengers in adapting populations
13th January 2017 Bergstromm and Lachmann (1997) Signalling among relatives I: is costly signalling too costly?

2016

Date Paper
9th December 2016 Martin and Lenormand (2015) Fitness effects of mutations across enviroments
18th November 2016 Guillon (2016) Sex ratio evolution when fitness and dispersal vary
14th October 2016 Durrett (1999) Spatial models for hybrid zones
30th September 2016 Barton (1979) The Dynamics of Hybrid Zones
16th September 2016 Matuszewski et al. (2015) Catch me if you can: Adaptation from standing genetic variation to a moving phenotypic optimum
10th June 2016 Uecker and Hermisson (2016) The Role of Recombination in Evolutionary Rescue
27th May 2016 Chisholm et al. (2016) The emergence of latent infection in the early evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
13th May 2016 Gao et al. (2016) Interpreting the Dependence of Mutation Rates on Age and Time
29th April 2016 Connallon and Clark (2014a) Balancing Selection in Species with Separate Sexes: Insights from Fisher’s Geometric Model
8th April 2016 Yamamichi and Ellner (2016) Antagonistic coevolution between quantitative and Mendelian traits
11th March 2016 Ubeda et.al. (2014) On the origin of sex chromosomes from meiotic drive
16th March 2016 Wakano Miura (2014) Trade-off between learning and exploitation
26th February 2016 Fyon et. al. (2015) Enhancer Runaway and the Evolution of Diploid Gene Expression
12th February 2016 Muirhead and Presgraves (2016) Hybrid Incompatibilities, Local Adaptation, and the Genomic Distribution of Natural Introgression between Species
29th January 2016 Coulson et al. (2015) Quantitative Genetics Meets Integral Projection Models.
15th January 2016 Lion (2015) Moment equations in spatial evolutionary ecology. J. Theoretical Biology

2015

Date Paper
11th September 2015 Birch J and Okasha S (2015) Kin selection and its critics. BioScience 65(1): 22-32.
22nd May 2015 Shaw AK and Kokko H (2015) Dispersal Evolution in the Presence of Allee Effects Can Speed Up or Slow Down Invasions? Am Nat 185(5): 631-639
24th April 2015 Kuijper, B and Hoyle, RB (2015) When to rely on maternal effects and when on phenotypic plasticity? Evolution 69(4): 950-968
9th April 2015 Peischl S, Kirkpatrick M, Excoffier L (2015) Expansion Load and the Evolutionary Dynamics of a Species Range. American Naturalist 185(4): E81-E93
27th March 2015 Engelstädter J (2015) , Host-Parasite Coevolutionary Dynamics with Generalized Success/Failure Infection Genetics. American Naturalist 185(5) E000.
13th March 2015 Wakano J and Iwasa Y (2013) , Evolutionary Branching in a Finite Population: Deterministic Brancing vs. Stochastic Branching. Genetics 193: 229-241.
30th January 2015 Polechová J, Barton N (2015) , Limits to adaptation along environmental gradients. bioRxivdoi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/012690.
16th January 2015 Cheptou P and Massol F (2009) , Pollination fluctuations drive evolutionary syndromes linking dispersal and mating system. Am Nat 107(1) 46-55 ( Appendices A-C ). See also Pannell J and Barrett (1998) Baker's law revisited: reproductive assurance in a metapopulation. Evolution 53(3) 657-668.

2014

Date Paper
14th November 2014 Rueffler C, Egas M and Metz JAJ (2006) , Evolutionary Predictions Should Be Based on Individual‐Level Traits. Am Nat 168(5) 148-162.
24th October 2014 G Parker , The origin and maintenance of two sexes (anisogamy), and their gamete sizes by gamete competition. In Togashi and Cox (2011) The Evolution Of Isogamy, Cambridge University Press p17-68.
10th October 2014 Hurst and Hamilton (1992), Cytoplasmic Fusion and the Nature of Sexes. Pro. R. Soc. Lond. B 247 189-194.
26th September 2014 Hamilton (1967), Extraordinary Sex Ratios. Science 156: 478-488.
28th March 2014 Hansen (2013), Why epistasis is important for selection and adaptation. Evolution 67-12: 3501–3511
28th February 2014 van den Heuvel et al. (2013), The Predictive Adaptive Response: Modeling the Life-History Evolution of the Butterfly Bicyclus anynana in Seasonal Environments. mathematical details supp mat, supplementary figures and tables
7th February 2014 Turelli et al. (2001), Stable two-allele polymorphisms maintained by fluctuating selection and seed banks: protecting the blues in Linanthus parryae.
24th January 2014 Allen et al. (2013), The Limitations of Inclusive Fitness.
17th January 2014 McPeek and Holt (1992), The Evolution of Dispersal in Spatially and Temporally Varying Environments.

2013

Date Paper
22nd November 2013 Weissman et al (2010), The rate of fitness-valley crossing in sexual populations.
8th November 2013 Sellis et al (2011), Heterozygote advantage as a natural consequence of adaptation in diploids. PNAS 108(51): 20666-20671. Supp Mat
24th October 2013 Nee et al (1994), The Reconstructed Evolutionary Process. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 344: 305-311.
10th October 2013 Barfield et al (2011), Evolution in Stage-Structured Populations. American Naturalist 177(4): 397-409.
27 September 2013 Metz et al (1992), How Should We Define 'Fitness' for General Ecological Scenarios? TREE 7(6): 198-202.
10 September 2013 Rousset F. (2004), Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations. Chap. 4: Interpretations of Inbreeding and Relatedness Coefficients in Subdivided Populations. F. Rousset's "Corrections and afterthoughts"
28 August 2013 Rousset F. (2004), Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations. Chap. 3: Spatially Homogeneous Dispersal: The Island Model and Isolation by Distance.
15 August 2013 Rousset F. (2004), Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations. Chap. 5: Evolutionary Dynamics.
12 August 2013 Rousset F. (2004), Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations. Chap. 1 and 2: Selection and Drift.
10 July 2013 Evans M.R. et al (2013), Do simple models lead to generality in ecology? TREE, in press. 10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.022.
6 June 2013 Shpak M and Proulx SR (2013), The role of life cycle and migration in selection for variance in offspring number. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 2007, 69:837-860.
24 May, 2013 Otto S.P. and Day T. (2007), A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution, Chapter 15: Analyzing continuous Stochastic Models - Diffusion in Time and Space.
3 May, 2013 Frank, S. A. (2012), Natural selection. IV. The Price equation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25: 1002–1019.
19 April, 2013 Pavlidis P., Metzler D. and Stephan W. (2012), Selective sweeps in multilocus models of quantitative traits. Genetics. 2012 Sep;192(1):225-39.
5 April, 2013 Kirkpatrick M. and Peischl S. (2012), Evolutionary rescue by beneficial mutations in environments that change in space and time. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B., January 19, 2013 368 1610 20120082; doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0082 1471-2970. SOM.
8 March, 2013 Rajon, E. and Masel, J. (2013), Compensatory evolution and the origins of innovations. Genetics, Early Online.
22 February, 2013 Ripa, J. and Dieckmann, U. (2013), Mutant invasions and adaptive dynamics in variable environments. Evolution. doi: 10.1111/evo.12046 (online early; supp info added to the pdf)
8 February, 2013 Abrams, P. A., Tucker, C. M. and Gilbert, B. (2013), Evolution of the storage effect. Evolution, 67: 315–327. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01756.x. +SuppInfo.
25 January, 2013 Coulson, T. and Tuljapurkar S. (2008). The dynamics of a quantitative trait in an age-structured population living in a variable environment, The American Naturalist 172(5):599-612. +App A.
11 January, 2013 Otto S.P., Servedio, M.R. & Nuismer, S.L. (2008). Frequency-Dependent Selection and the Evolution of Assortative Mating, Genetics 179(4): 2091-2112.

2012

Date Paper
16 November, 2012 Chevin (2012). Genetic contraints on adaptation to a changing environment, Evolution (early view), doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01809.x
1 November, 2012 Zhang (2012). Fisher's geometrical model of fitness landscape and variance in fitness within a changing environment, Evolution 66(8): 2350-2368
5 October, 2012 van Doorn and Kirkpatrick (2007). Turnover of sex chromosomes induced by sexual conflict. Nature, 449: 909-912. doi:10.1038/nature06178
21 September, 2012 Hanski, I. et al (2011). Eco-Evolutionary Metapopulation Dynamics and the Spatial Scale of Adaptation. The American Naturalist, 177(1), 29-43. doi:10.1086/657625
7 September, 2012 Peischl and Kirkpatrick (2012), Establishment of New Mutations in Changing Environments, Genetics 191(3): 895-906.
9 August, 2012 Blanquart F. et al (2012), The effects of migration and drift on local adaptation to a heterogeneous environment. JEB 25(7) 1351-1363 [supp info added to the pdf].
26 July, 2012 Bürger R. and Akerman A. (2011), The effects of linkage and gene flow on local adaptation: a two-locus continent-island model. Theor Popul Biol. 80(4):272-88.
14 June, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 8: Developmental Evolution.
17 May, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 9: Evolutionary Game Theory and Strategy Dynamics.
2 May, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 10: Multilevel Selection.
26 April, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 7: Quantitative Genetics.
5 April, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 6: The Algebra of Evolution: Price's Theorem.
29 March, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 5: Diffusion Theory.
22 March, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 4: Effective Population Size.
8 March, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 3: Drift at Neutral Loci.
23 February, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 2: Selection on Two Loci. (notes)
9 February, 2012 Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 1: Selection on One Locus.
26 January, 2012 Kremer and Le Corre (2011), Decoupling of differentiation between traits and their underlying genes in response to divergent selection. Heredity, doi: 10.1038/hdy.2011.81.
12 January, 2012 Lee et al. (2012), An evolutionary mechanism for diversity in siderophore-producing bacteria. Ecology Letters, 15: 119-125.

2011

Date Paper
8 December, 2011 Via and Lande (1985), Genotype-environment interaction and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. Evolution, 39: 505-523.
24 November, 2011 Doebeli and Ispolatov (2010), Complexity and Diversity. Science 328: 494-497.
10 November, 2011 Bond and Midgley (1995), Kill Thy Neighbour: An Individualistic Argument for the Evolution of Flammability. Oikos 73(1): 79-85
27 October, 2011 Kimura (1962), On the Probability of Fixation of Mutant Genes in a Population, Genetics 47: 713-719
13 October, 2011 Geritz et al. (1998), Evolutionarily singular strategies and the adaptive growth and branching of the evolutionary tree. Evolutionary Ecology 12: 35-57.
29 September, 2011 Lenormand and Otto (2000), The Evolution of Recombination in a Heterogeneous Environment, Genetics 156(1): 423-438
15 September, 2011 Thibert-Plante and Hendry, 2011. Factors influencing progress toward sympatric speciation, JEB (Early view).

2010

Date Paper
28 July, 2010 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapters 5 & 6.
19 July, 2010 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 4.
17 June, 2010 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 3.
10 June, 2010 Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 1 and chapter 2.

2009

Date Paper
19 October Hammerschmidt et al. 2009. When to go: optimization of host switching in parasites with complex life cycles. Evolution 63: 1976-1986.
5 October Tarnita et al. 2009. Evolutionary dynamics in set structured populations. PNAS 106: 8601-8604.
21 September Draghi & Wagner 2008. The evolutionary dynamics of evolvability in a gene network model. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 599-611.
9 June Proulx S.R. & Phillips, P.C. 2005. The opportunity for canalization and the evolution of genetic networks. The American Naturalist 165: 147-162.
3 June Wagner G.P. & Altenberg L. 1996. Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability Evolution 50: 967-976.
27 May Maynard Smith J. 1981. Sympatric speciation American Naturalist 100: 637-650.
11 May Felsenstein J. 1981. Skepticism towards Santa Rosalia, or why are there so few kinds of animals? Evolution 35: 124-138.
1 May Nozawa M., Suzuki Y. & Nei M 2009. Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods. PNAS in press.
3 April Yukilevich R., Lachance J., Aoki F., & True J.R. 2008. Long-term adaptation of epistatic genetic networks. Evolution 62: 2215-2235.
27 March Palmer M.E. & Feldman M.W. 2008. Dynamics of hybrid incompatibility in gene networks in a constant environment. Evolution 63: 418-431.
20 March Uyeda J.C., Arnold S.J., Hohenlohe P.A. & Mead L.S. 2009. Drift promotes speciation by sexual selection. Evolution 63: 583-594.
13 March Gandon S. & Nuismer S.L. 2009. Interactions between genetic drift, gene flow, and selection mosaics drive parasite local adaptation. The American Naturalist 173: 212-224.
6 March Hey J. & Nielsen R. 2004. multilocus methods for estimating population sizes, migration rates and divergence time, with applications to the divergence of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis. Genetics 167: 747-760.
28 February Lande R. 2007. Expected relative fitness and the adaptive topography of fluctuating selection. Evolution 61: 1835-1846
20 February Johnson T. & Barton N. 2005. Theoretical models of selection and mutation on quantitative traits. Philosohpical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 360: 1411-1425.
13 February Kerr, B. & Godfrey-Smith, P. 2009. Generalization of the Price equation for evolutionary change. Evolution 63: 531-536.
6 February Case, T.J. & Taper, M.L. 2000. Interspecific Competition, Environmental Gradients, Gene Flow, and the Coevolution of Species' Borders. The American Naturalist 155: 583-605.
30 January Martin, G. & Lenormand, T. 2006. A general multivariate extension of Fisher's geometrical model and the distribution of mutation fitness effects across species. Evolution 60:893-907.
23 January Barton, N.H. 2001. The role of hybridization in evolution. Molecular Ecology 10: 551-568.

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