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ARTICLE

January 19

Hubby, J.L. and R.C. Lewontin, 1966.  A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations.  I. The number of alleles at different loci in Drosophila pseudoobscura.  Genetics 54: 577-594.*

Lewontin, R.C. and J.L. Hubby, 1966. A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygoisty in natural populations.  II.  Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura.  Genetics 54: 595-609.

January 26

 Kreitman, M., 1983. Nucleotide polymorphism at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster.  Nature 304: 412-417.

Li, W.-H. and L.A. Sadler, 1991. Low nucleotide diversity in man.  Genetics 129: 513-523.*

Aquadro, C.F., V. Bauer DuMont, and F.A. Reed, 2001. Genome-wide variation in the human and fruitfly: a comparison.  Curr. Op. Genet. Develop. 11: 627-634.*

February 2

Evans, P.D. et al. 2005. Microcephalin, a gene regulating brain size, continues to evolve adaptively in humans. Science 309: 1717-172.

February 9

Palumbi, S.R., 2001. Humans as the world’s greatest evolutionary force. Science 293: 1786-1790.

Bamshad, M. and S.P. Wooding, 2003.  Signatures of natural selection in the human genome.  Nat. Rev. Genet. 4: 99-111.*

February 16

Bustamante, C. et al. 2005. Natural selection on protein coding genes in the human genome. Nature 437: 1153-1157.

February 23

 Hori, M., 1993. Frequency dependent natural selection in the handedness of scale-eating cichlid fish.  Science 260: 216-219.

Nachman, M.W., Hoekstra, H.E., and S.L. D'Agostino, 2003. The genetic basis of adaptive melanism in pocket mice.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 5268-5273.*

March 2

Meagher, S., D.J. Penn, and W.K. Potts, 2000. Male-male competition magnifies inbreeding depression in wild house mice. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 97: 3324-3329.

March 9

Hoelzel, A.R., J. Halley, S.J. O’Brien, C. Campagna, T. Arnbom, B. LeBoeuf, K. Ralls, and G.A. Dover, 1993.  Elephant seal genetic variation and the use of simulation models to investigate historical population bottlenecks.  J. Heredity 84: 443-449.

March 16

 Spring Break

March 23

Makova, K.D., and W.H. Li. 2002. Strong male-driven evolution of DNA sequences in humans and apes. Nature 416: 624-626.


Haldane, J.B.S., 1935. The rate of spontaneous mutation of a human gene. J. Genetics 31: 317-326.*

Nachman, M.W., and S.L. Crowell, 2000. Estimate of the mutation rate per nucleotide in humans. Genetics 156: 297-304.*

March 30 Turner, T.L., M.W. Hahn, and S.V. Nuzhdin, 2005. Genomic islands of speciation in Anopheles gambiae. PLoS Biology 3: 1572-1578.

Hey, J. and C.A. Machado, 2003. The study of structured populations – new hope for a difficult and divided science.  Nat. Rev. Genet. 4: 535-543.*

April 18

Reich, D.E. M. Cargill, S. Bolk et al., 2001. Linkage disequilibrium in the human genome.  Nature 411: 199-204.

McVean G.A.T., et al. 2004. The fine-scale structure of recombination rate variation in the human genome. Science 304: 581-584.

Jeffries, A.J., L. Kauppi, R. Neumann. 2001. Intensely punctate meitoic recombination in the class II region of the major histocompatibility complex. Nature Genet. 29: 217-222.*

Wall, J.D. and J.K. Pritchard, 2003.  Haplotype blocks and linkage disequilibrium in the human genome.  Nat. Rev. Genet. 4: 587-597. *

April 18

 Kimura, M., 1968. Evolutionary rate at the molecular level. Nature 217: 624-626.

Hudson, R.R., M. Kreitman and M. Aguade, 1987. A test of neutral molecular evolution based on nucleotide data. Genetics 116: 153-159.

April 20

 McDonald, J.H. and M. Kreitman, 1991. Adaptive evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila.  Nature 351: 652-654.

Andolfatto, P. 2005. Adaptive evolution of non-coding DNA in Drosophila. Nature 437: 1149-1152.

April 27

 Begun, D.J. and C.F. Aquadro, 1992. Levels of naturally occurring DNA polymorphism correlate with recombination rates in D. melanogaster.  Nature 356: 519-520.

Sabeti, P.C. D.E. Reich, J.M. Higgins et al., 2002. Detecting recent positive selection in the human genome from haplotype structure.  Nature 419: 832-837.