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Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Genetics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, David Houle is an evolutionary biologist who studies fruitflies as an experimental organism for understanding adaptation and behavior. He is a Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University.

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David Houle 's Published Works

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Comparing evolvability and variability of quantitative traits. (1992) (1766)
The lek paradox and the capture of genetic variance by condition dependent traits (1996) (1327)
Phenomics: the next challenge (2010) (1069)
GENETIC COVARIANCE OF FITNESS CORRELATES: WHAT GENETIC CORRELATIONS ARE MADE OF AND WHY IT MATTERS (1991) (554)
Measuring and comparing evolvability and constraint in multivariate characters (2008) (538)
Comparative quantitative genetics : evolution of the G matrix (2002) (488)
PERSPECTIVE: SPONTANEOUS DELETERIOUS MUTATION (1999) (423)
Comparing mutational variabilities. (1996) (359)
Heritability is not Evolvability (2011) (338)
COMPARING STRENGTHS OF DIRECTIONAL SELECTION: HOW STRONG IS STRONG? (2004) (334)
Fluctuating Asymmetry as a Bioindicator of Stress: Comparing Efficacy of Analyses Involving Multiple Traits (2000) (309)
Direct Estimation of the Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Rate in Drosophila melanogaster (2008) (269)
Measurement and Meaning in Biology (2011) (241)
Coevolution of costly mate choice and condition-dependent display of good genes (2002) (214)
How should we explain variation in the genetic variance of traits? (2004) (205)
THE DIMENSIONALITY OF GENETIC VARIATION FOR WING SHAPE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (2005) (204)
Genotype—environment interactions and the estimation of the genomic mutation rate in Drosophila melanogaster (1994) (199)
Rates and Genomic Consequences of Spontaneous Mutational Events in Drosophila melanogaster (2013) (193)
A mutation accumulation assay reveals a broad capacity for rapid evolution of gene expression (2005) (190)
Sensory Bias as an Explanation for the Evolution of Mate Preferences (2005) (175)
Automated measurement of Drosophila wings (2003) (170)
The effects of spontaneous mutation on quantitative traits. I. Variances and covariances of life history traits. (1994) (168)
Evolution of morphological allometry (2014) (168)
Demographic and Genetic Constraints on Evolution (2009) (167)
Evolvability, stabilizing selection, and the problem of stasis (2004) (165)
Allozyme-associated heterosis in Drosophila melanogaster. (1989) (140)
Numbering the hairs on our heads: The shared challenge and promise of phenomics (2010) (135)
Age-specific properties of spontaneous mutations affecting mortality in Drosophila melanogaster. (1998) (128)
A supermatrix-based molecular phylogeny of the family Drosophilidae. (2010) (122)
INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS OF COMMON PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSES (2002) (116)
Mutation predicts 40 million years of fly wing evolution (2017) (107)
FIRST RECORDS OF ZAPRIONUS INDIANUS (DIPTERA: DROSOPHILIDAE), A PEST SPECIES ON COMMERCIAL FRUITS FROM PANAMA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2006) (95)
Consequences of Hierarchical Allocation for the Evolution of Life‐History Traits (2002) (95)
How informative is Wright's estimator of the number of genes affecting a quantitative character? (1990) (92)
Complex constraints on allometry revealed by artificial selection on the wing of Drosophila melanogaster (2015) (92)
Patterned Anchorage to the Apical Extracellular Matrix Defines Tissue Shape in the Developing Appendages of Drosophila (2015) (89)
SEXUAL SELECTION ACCELERATES THE ELIMINATION OF A DELETERIOUS MUTANT IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (2009) (88)
Comment on “A meta‐analysis of the heritability of developmental stability” by Møller and Thornhill (1997) (86)
The genomic mutation rate for fitness in Drosophila (1992) (82)
Naturally Segregating Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Wing Shape of Drosophila melanogaster (2005) (78)
The genomic mutation rate for fitness in Drosophila (1994) (78)
Estimating sampling error of evolutionary statistics based on genetic covariance matrices using maximum likelihood (2015) (74)
PROPERTIES OF SPONTANEOUS MUTATIONAL VARIANCE AND COVARIANCE FOR WING SIZE AND SHAPE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (2013) (72)
the fitness consequences of P element insertion in Drosophila melanogaster (1988) (71)
Evolution under monogamy feminizes gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster (2014) (70)
EVOLUTION OF VARIATION AND VARIABILITY UNDER FLUCTUATING, STABILIZING, AND DISRUPTIVE SELECTION (2010) (68)
Populations with elevated mutation load do not benefit from the operation of sexual selection (2011) (60)
A Low Genomic Number of Recessive Lethals in Natural Populations of Bluefin Killifish and Zebrafish (2002) (60)
Sampling based approximation of confidence intervals for functions of genetic covariance matrices. (2013) (59)
Mutation accumulation and the effect of copia insertions in Drosophila melanogaster. (2004) (59)
THE MAINTENANCE OF POLYGENIC VARIATION IN FINITE POPULATIONS (1989) (55)
The effects of spontaneous mutation on quantitative traits. II. Dominance of mutations with effects on life-history traits. (1997) (55)
Comparing G matrices: are common principal components informative? (2003) (52)
A supertree analysis and literature review of the genus Drosophila and closely related genera (Diptera, Drosophilidae) (2008) (50)
HIGH ENTHUSIASM AND LOW R‐SQUARED (1998) (50)
Natural Selection in a Bottle (2002) (50)
The Measurement of Local Variation in Shape (2012) (49)
The evolution of age-specific mortality rates in Drosophila melanogaster: genetic divergence among unselected lines. (1999) (49)
5 – Characters as the Units of Evolutionary Change (2001) (45)
A Multivariate Genome-Wide Association Study of Wing Shape in Drosophila melanogaster (2019) (44)
Response of fluctuating and directional asymmetry to selection on wing shape in Drosophila melanogaster (2006) (40)
Direct estimation of per nucleotide and genomic deleterious mutation rates in Drosophila (2008) (38)
ARTIFICIAL SELECTION REVEALS HERITABLE VARIATION FOR DEVELOPMENTAL INSTABILITY (2011) (34)
ADAPTIVE DISTANCE AND THE GENETIC BASIS OF HETEROSIS (1994) (33)
Homozygous and Hemizygous Viability Variation on the X Chromosome of DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. (1985) (32)
Why does allometry evolve so slowly? (2019) (31)
The effect of inbreeding on fluctuating asymmetry of wing veins in two laboratory strains of Drosophila melanogaster (2009) (30)
Heritability of Directional Asymmetry in Drosophila melanogaster (2009) (30)
Is there a g factor for fitness? (2008) (29)
Detecting genetic variation in developmental instability by artificial selection on fluctuating asymmetry (2002) (29)
Inferring the Nature of Allometry from Geometric Data (2009) (28)
Making quantitative morphological variation from basic developmental processes: Where are we? The case of the Drosophila wing (2015) (28)
High Enthusiasm and Low R-Squared@@@Asymmetry, Developmental Stability, and Evolution. (1998) (27)
Cross‐sex genetic covariances limit the evolvability of wing‐shape within and among species of Drosophila (2019) (20)
Linkage Disequilibrium and Inversion-Typing of the Drosophila melanogaster Genome Reference Panel (2015) (20)
The effect of cryopreservation on the lethal mutation rate in Drosophila melanogaster. (1997) (18)
Evolvability in the fossil record (2021) (17)
A modelling framework for the analysis of artificial-selection time series. (2011) (16)
Targeted selection experiments and enzyme polymorphism: negative evidence for octanoate selection at the G6PD locus in Drosophila melanogaster. (1985) (13)
Predicting Multivariate Responses of Sexual Dimorphism to Direct and Indirect Selection (2020) (13)
Two classes of deleterious recessive alleles in a natural population of zebrafish, Danio rerio (2004) (13)
Evolution of reduced post‐copulatory molecular interactions in Drosophila populations lacking sperm competition (2016) (12)
Enzyme Isoforms May Increase Phenotypic Robustness (2008) (12)
Habitat choice in the Drosophila affinis subgroup (1987) (12)
Applications of aphron technology to biological separations (1986) (10)
A dispatch from the multivariate frontier (2007) (8)
Mutation Accumulation, Performance, Fitness1 (2003) (7)
Using Delaunay triangulation to sample whole‐specimen color from digital images (2021) (6)
Understanding the Selection of Policy Instruments in Canadian Climate-Change Policy (2011) (6)
Quantitative Morphological Variation in the Developing Drosophila Wing (2017) (5)
The power of a multivariate approach to genome-wide association studies: an example with Drosophila melanogaster wing shape (2017) (4)
Allometry constrains the evolution of sexual dimorphism in Drosophila across 33 million years of divergence (2021) (4)
Dimensionality and the statistical power of multivariate genome-wide association studies (2015) (4)
Predicting the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism in Gene Expression (2020) (3)
Fly wing evolutionary rate is a near-isometric function of mutational variation (2020) (2)
Alberta Climate-Change Policy in the Canada-Us Context (2009) (2)
Debating sexual selection and mating strategies. (2006) (1)
Effect of cryopreservation on the lethal mutation rate in Drosophila melanogaster embryos (1995) (1)
Colormesh: A novel method for quantifying variation in complex color patterns (2020) (1)
Complexity, Evolvability, and the Process of Adaptation (2022) (1)
Naturally segregating QTL affecting wing shape of Drosophila melanogaster (2004) (1)
Applied Usage of the Minimum-Volume Ellipsoid (2006) (1)
Traffic management system for the Quebec and Pierre-Laporte Bridges in the Quebec City Region (1990) (0)
From Genotype to Phenotype in the Drosophila Wing (2015) (0)
The Measurement of Local Variation in Shape (2012) (0)
Corrigendum (2009) (0)
Learning Metrics for Shape Classification and Discrimination (2010) (0)
Elements of Evolutionary Genetics (2011) (0)
MODERN JET TRANSPORT FLIGHT TESTING. (1995) (0)
Complexities of recapitulating polygenic effects in natural populations: replication of genetic effects on wing shape in artificially selected and wild caught populations of Drosophila melanogaster (2023) (0)
Weaklings make trouble (2022) (0)
Design and Implementation of Plant Phenotyping using Smart Electronic Automation (2020) (0)
Response to O'Grady et al.: The potential and peril of the supertree approach (2008) (0)
Why does allometry evolve so slowly? Integrative and Comparative Biology (2019) (0)
The University of Chicago Demographic and Genetic Constraints on Evolution (2009) (0)
Evolvability and the Fossil Record (0)
Unemployment in Spain: Analyzing the Job Market for Youth and the General Population (2012) (0)
Gene expression for 6 evolved populations x 2 sexes x 2 mating statuses (2015) (0)
THE QUARTERLY REVIEW of Biology MEASUREMENT AND MEANING IN BIOLOGY (2011) (0)
Genetic variation and human disease (2007) (0)
Genetic basis, sans evolutionary change (2001) (0)

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