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These papers are available on electronic reserve in the main library http://eres.library.arizona.edu/ The date listed is the due date for the written summary of each paper. *You are not required to write a summary for the papers indicated with an asterisk.
| Date |
Article |
| January 22 |
Hubby, J.L. and
R.C. Lewontin, 1966 A molecular approach
to the study of genic heterozygoisty in natural populations. I. The number of alleles at different loci in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genetics
54: 577-594.* link to pdf 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
heterozygoisty in natural populations of Drosophila
pseudoobscura. link to pdf |
| January 29 |
Kreitman, M.,
1983 Nucleotide polymorphism at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature
304: 412-417. no link available |
| February 5 |
Li,
W.-H. and L.A. Sadler, 1991 Low nucleotide diversity in man. Genetics 129: 513-523. link 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.* link
to pdf |
| February 12 |
Ardlie,
K.G. and L.M. Silver, 1998 Low frequency of t-haplotypes in natural
populations
of house mice (Mus musculus domesticus). Evolution
52: 1185-1196. link
to pdf |
| February 19 |
Palumbi,
S.R., 2001. Humans as the world’s greatest evolutionary force. Science
293:
1786-1790. link to pdf
or link Bamshad,
M. and S.P. Wooding, 2003. Signatures of
natural selection in the human genome. Nat.
Rev. Genet. 4: 99-111.* link
to pdf |
| February 26 |
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. link to pdf |
| March 4 |
Hori,
M., 1993 Frequency dependent natural selection in the handedness of
scale-eating cichlid fish. Science 260:
216-219. link
to pdf |
| March 11 |
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. no link available |
| March 18 |
Spring Break |
| March 25 |
Daly, J.C., and
J.L. Patton. 1990. Dispersal, gene flow, and allelic diversity between
local
populations of Thomomys bottae pocket gophers in the coastal ranges of 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.* link
to pdf |
| Apr 1 |
Haldane, J.B.S., 1935 The rate of spontaneous mutation of a human gene. J. Genetics 31: 317-326. no link available Nachman,
M.W.,
and S.L. Crowell, 2000. Estimate of the
mutation rate per nucleotide in humans. Genetics
156: 297-304. link
to pdf |
| April 8 |
Kimura, M., 1968 Evolutionary rate at the molecular level. Nature 217: 624-626. no link available Hudson, R.R.,
M. Kreitman and M. Aguade, 1987 A test of neutral molecular evolution
based on
nucleotide data. Genetics 116: 153-159. link to pdf |
| April 15 |
McDonald, J.H. and M. Kreitman, 1991 Adaptive evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila. Nature 351: 652-654. no link available Tajima, F.,
1989 Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by
DNA
polymorphism. Genetics 123: 585-595. link to pdf |
| April 22 |
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| April 29 |
Wall,
J.D. and J.K. Pritchard, 2003. Haplotype
blocks and linkage disequilibrium in the human genome.
Nat. Rev. Genet. 4: 587-597. link
to pdf |