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AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS

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side_view_toon_small.JPG We talk about molecular population and evolutionary GENETICS and GENOMICS. You know, the caliper measurement of a gene's evolvability in moles.

Eschewing obfuscation ever since Morgan.

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Population Genetics:

Deborah Charlesworth on Lynch's Origin of Genome Architecture

She's more critical than Brian.

Charlesworth on Lynch

Is sexual reproduction, not relaxed constraint in small populations, to blame for genomic complexity in eukaryotes?

Inferring Demographic History Using Multiple Loci

The coalescent and what it's good for.

Competitive Release and Antibiotic Resistance

Is the current approach in prescribing antibiotics flawed?

Accelerated Evolution -- yet again

Can positive selection drown out neutral evolution?

Why Accelerated Adaptive Evolution isn't Faster Evolution

The population genetics of neutral mutations and beneficial mutations.

Recent Accelerated Adaptive Evolution in Humans

For those of you interested in recent adaptive evolution in some insignificant bipedal primate, John Hawks and pals have published a paper in PNAS describing something you'll find interesting.

Geese, Ganders, and Genomes

Sex-biased genes and sex chromosomes.

Of Geese and Ganders

Brian at Laelaps has written a post entitled "What's good for the gander isn't always good for the goose", in which he describes some examples of sexual dimorphism in charismatic vertebrates. Studying the phenotypes of these traits is interesting, but...

Two More Drosophila Genomes

And many more are on the way!

LOL Sieve

Haldane never had it so good.

Zombie Labs Eat Brain Genes

Bruce Lahn's never ending crusade to defend his research.

Junk on Cancer

If you don't have lung cancer, be thankful for your junk DNA.

Selective Constraint on Ultraconserved Elements

Conserved sequences in the human genome are under strong purifying selection.

Evolution of Form via Protein Sequence and Expression Changes

Beach mice adapting to different habitat.

The Frailty of Nearly Neutral Hypotheses

What effect does population size have on mutation-selection balance?

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