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- PhD Genetics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Biology Stanford University
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- The incomplete natural history of mitochondria (2004) (1971)
- Indirect measures of gene flow and migration: FST≠1/(4Nm+1) (1999) (1418)
- Combining probability from independent tests: the weighted Z‐method is superior to Fisher's approach (2005) (758)
- Assisted Gene Flow to Facilitate Local Adaptation to Climate Change (2013) (667)
- PERSPECTIVE:EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS (2003) (637)
- Finding the Genomic Basis of Local Adaptation: Pitfalls, Practical Solutions, and Future Directions (2016) (572)
- THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF ADAPTATION UNDER MIGRATION–SELECTION BALANCE (2011) (512)
- Evaluation of demographic history and neutral parameterization on the performance of FST outlier tests (2014) (477)
- SOME POPULATION GENETIC CONSEQUENCES OF COLONY FORMATION AND EXTINCTION: GENETIC CORRELATIONS WITHIN FOUNDING GROUPS (1990) (456)
- The effective size of a subdivided population. (1997) (450)
- MULTIPLE FITNESS PEAKS AND EPISTASIS (1995) (435)
- The relative power of genome scans to detect local adaptation depends on sampling design and statistical method (2015) (422)
- Estimating effective population size and migration rates from genetic samples over space and time. (2003) (422)
- Indirect measures of gene flow and migration: FST not equal to 1/(4Nm + 1). (1999) (420)
- Evolutionary inference from QST (2008) (358)
- The Red Queen Beats the Jack-Of-All-Trades: The Limitations on the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity and Niche Breadth (1996) (347)
- Reliable Detection of Loci Responsible for Local Adaptation: Inference of a Null Model through Trimming the Distribution of FST* (2015) (326)
- The Analysis of Biological Data (2008) (315)
- FIXATION OF NEW ALLELES AND THE EXTINCTION OF SMALL POPULATIONS: DRIFT LOAD, BENEFICIAL ALLELES, AND SEXUAL SELECTION (2000) (314)
- and D do not replace FST (2011) (297)
- The probability of fixation in populations of changing size. (1997) (292)
- Fixation probability and time in subdivided populations. (2003) (269)
- Purging the Genome with Sexual Selection: Reducing Mutation Load Through Selection on Males (2009) (256)
- Local drift load and the heterosis of interconnected populations (2000) (240)
- Convergent local adaptation to climate in distantly related conifers (2016) (238)
- Experimental evolution. (2012) (238)
- TEMPORAL FLUCTUATIONS IN DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS AND THE GENETIC VARIANCE AMONG POPULATIONS (1992) (237)
- Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best practices. (2011) (233)
- The heritability of fluctuating asymmetry and the genetic control of developmental stability (1996) (192)
- Selection, load and inbreeding depression in a large metapopulation. (2002) (185)
- PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY FACILITATES MUTATIONAL VARIANCE, GENETIC VARIANCE, AND EVOLVABILITY ALONG THE MAJOR AXIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION (2012) (176)
- Neutral additive genetic variance in a metapopulation. (1999) (173)
- A GENETIC INTERPRETATION OF ECOLOGICALLY DEPENDENT ISOLATION (2001) (173)
- Testing for Spatially Divergent Selection: Comparing QST to FST (2009) (166)
- Inbreeding changes the shape of the genetic covariance matrix in Drosophila melanogaster. (2001) (162)
- Inferences About the Distribution of Dominance Drawn From Yeast Gene Knockout Data (2011) (162)
- The Evolution of Metapopulations (1997) (157)
- Mutation Load: The Fitness of Individuals in Populations Where Deleterious Alleles Are Abundant (2012) (149)
- FACTORS AFFECTING THE GENETIC LOAD IN DROSOPHILA: SYNERGISTIC EPISTASIS AND CORRELATIONS AMONG FITNESS COMPONENTS (2000) (145)
- Nonequilibrium Population Structure in Forked Fungus Beetles: Extinction, Colonization, and the Genetic Variance Among Populations (1992) (140)
- Data Archiving (2010) (136)
- Evaluating methods for estimating local effective population size with and without migration (2015) (136)
- Comment on "Ongoing Adaptive Evolution of ASPM, a Brain Size Determinant in Homo sapiens" and "Microcephalin, a Gene Regulating Brain Size, Continues to Evolve Adaptively in Humans" (2006) (135)
- Evolutionary Inferences from Phylogenies: A Review of Methods (2012) (133)
- The repeatability of fluctuating asymmetry: a revision and extension (1998) (133)
- The changes in genetic and environmental variance with inbreeding in Drosophila melanogaster. (1999) (129)
- Environmental duress and epistasis: how does stress affect the strength of selection on new mutations? (2010) (125)
- EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS (2003) (123)
- Heterosis increases the effective migration rate (2000) (116)
- EFFECTS OF MIGRATION ON THE GENETIC COVARIANCE MATRIX (2007) (109)
- Fluctuating asymmetry does not increase with moderate inbreeding in Drosophila melanogaster (1994) (102)
- Data archiving is a good investment (2011) (90)
- THE DISTRIBUTION OF PHENOTYPIC VARIANCE WITH INBREEDING (1999) (86)
- Local Adaptation Interacts with Expansion Load during Range Expansion: Maladaptation Reduces Expansion Load (2017) (80)
- GENE INTERACTION AFFECTS THE ADDITIVE GENETIC VARIANCE IN SUBDIVIDED POPULATIONS WITH MIGRATION AND EXTINCTION (1993) (79)
- FOUNDER EFFECTS AND PEAK SHIFTS WITHOUT GENETIC DRIFT: ADAPTIVE PEAK SHIFTS OCCUR EASILY WHEN ENVIRONMENTS FLUCTUATE SLIGHTLY (1997) (78)
- VARIANCE‐INDUCED PEAK SHIFTS (1995) (76)
- The instability of studies of instability (1997) (75)
- Probability of Fixation in a Heterogeneous Environment (2005) (74)
- Selection and Drift in Metapopulations (2004) (72)
- PERSISTENCE OF CHANGES IN THE GENETIC COVARIANCE MATRIX AFTER A BOTTLENECK (2002) (70)
- The variance in inbreeding depression and the recovery of fitness in bottlenecked populations (1999) (70)
- Compensatory mutations are repeatable and clustered within proteins (2009) (68)
- Quantifying how constraints limit the diversity of viable routes to adaptation (2018) (65)
- Dominance and overdominance of mildly deleterious induced mutations for fitness traits in Caenorhabditis elegans. (2003) (65)
- Lack of correlation between heterozygosity and fitness in forked fungus beetles (1993) (64)
- The value of complementary approaches in evolutionary research: Reply to Magalhães and Matos (2012) (60)
- Compensating for the meltdown: The critical effective size of a population with deleterious and compensatory mutations (2003) (57)
- Background selection and FST: Consequences for detecting local adaptation (2019) (56)
- Male Drosophila melanogaster have higher mating success when adapted to their thermal environment (2006) (56)
- NO EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY ON THE MAINTENANCE OF GENETIC VARIATION IN WING SHAPE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (2010) (52)
- The genetics of adaptation: the roles of pleiotropy, stabilizing selection and drift in shaping the distribution of bidirectional fixed mutational effects. (2003) (52)
- The need for archiving data in evolutionary biology (2010) (49)
- Modern Approaches to Local Adaptation* (2015) (47)
- SINGLE FOUNDER‐FLUSH EVENTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION (1998) (47)
- Environmental stress, inbreeding, and the nature of phenotypic and genetic variance in Drosophila melanogaster (2002) (41)
- The Effects of Selection and Bottlenecks on Male Mating Success in Peripheral Isolates (1999) (39)
- QST–FST comparisons with unbalanced half‐sib designs (2015) (38)
- Fixation of new mutations in small populations (2004) (38)
- Sexual selection against deleterious mutations via variable male search success (2009) (38)
- Variation in recombination rate affects detection of outliers in genome scans under neutrality (2020) (36)
- Nonequivalent lethal equivalents: Models and inbreeding metrics for unbiased estimation of inbreeding load (2018) (35)
- Speciation: Founder Events and Their Effects on X-Linked and Autosomal Genes (1995) (33)
- THE DISTRIBUTION AMONG POPULATIONS IN PHENOTYPIC VARIANCE WITH INBREEDING (1996) (32)
- QST in a hierarchically structured population (2012) (32)
- PERSPECTIVE: EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS (2003) (25)
- Variation in recombination rate affects detection of outliers in genome scans under neutrality. (2020) (22)
- Robustness to noise in gene expression evolves despite epistatic constraints in a model of gene networks (2015) (22)
- The costs and benefits of resource sharing: reciprocity requires resource heterogeneity (2007) (20)
- Patterns of genetic variation within and among populations in Arbutus unedo and its relation with selection and evolvability. (2015) (20)
- Genetic recombination and adaptation to fluctuating environments: selection for geotaxis in Drosophila melanogaster (2003) (20)
- Inbreeding and Metapopulations (2002) (19)
- The genetics of adaptation to discrete heterogeneous environments: frequent mutation or large‐effect alleles can allow range expansion (2017) (19)
- Local adaptation does not always predict high mating success (2010) (18)
- Dietary stress does not strengthen selection against single deleterious mutations in Drosophila melanogaster (2011) (18)
- Two-locus drift with sex chromosomes: the partitioning and conversion of variance in subdivided populations. (1995) (18)
- Global adaptation complicates the interpretation of genome scans for local adaptation (2020) (18)
- A Balanced Data Archiving Policy for Long-Term Studies. (2016) (18)
- Bioinformatically predicted deleterious mutations reveal complementation in the interior spruce hybrid complex (2017) (15)
- Background selection and the statistics of population differentiation: consequences for detecting local adaptation (2018) (12)
- Fission and the Genetic Variance Among Populations: The Changing Demorgraphy of Forked Fungus Beetle Populations (1994) (10)
- Overdominance interacts with linkage to determine the rate of adaptation to a new optimum (2015) (9)
- The WZA: A window-based method for characterizing genotype-environment association (2021) (9)
- EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF FOUNDER‐FLUSH: A REPLY TO TEMPLETON (1999) (8)
- Plasticity via feedback reduces the cost of developmental instability (2020) (8)
- Fixation Probabilities and Times (2013) (8)
- Using genetic relatedness to understand heterogeneous distributions of urban rat‐associated pathogens (2020) (7)
- THE GENETIC VARIANCE AMONG POPULATIONS (1992) (7)
- Environmental stress does not increase the mean strength of selection (2018) (7)
- The impact of epistatic selection on the genomic traces of selection (2009) (6)
- Multilocus estimation of selfing and its heritability (2012) (5)
- Strengths and weaknesses of experimental evolution (2012) (4)
- DATA ARCHIVING (2010) (4)
- Global adaptation confounds the search for local adaptation (2019) (4)
- Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation (2022) (3)
- The genetics of assisted gene flow: immediate costs and long-term benefits (2021) (3)
- LRH: JAGM DE VISSER, J HERMISSON ET AL. RRH: EVOLUTION OF ROBUSTNESS PERSPECTIVE: EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS (1972) (2)
- A clever solution to a vexing problem (2015) (2)
- Ecology. Inbreeding and metapopulations. (2002) (2)
- Altruism in viscous populations revisited: competition and altruism do not exactly cancel even in the island model (2011) (2)
- The immediate costs and long‐term benefits of assisted gene flow in large populations (2022) (2)
- Supplementary material from "No evidence of positive assortative mating for genetic quality in fruit flies" (2019) (1)
- Sexual selection against deleterious mutations via variable male search success (2010) (1)
- Effective Population Size (2006) (1)
- Growth genes are implicated in the evolutionary divergence of sympatric piscivorous and insectivorous rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) (2021) (1)
- Founder Effects (2019) (1)
- Letter from the Editors (2006) (0)
- male search success Sexual selection against deleterious mutations via variable (2009) (0)
- Bioinformatically predicted deleterious mutations reveal complementation in the interior spruce hybrid complex (2017) (0)
- The Analysis of Biological Data: textbook and website (2015) (0)
- How useful is genomic data for predicting maladaptation to future climate? (2023) (0)
- 9 Fixation of New Mutations in Small Populations (2004) (0)
- Understanding Population Genetics Through the Derivation of Ten Major Results. By Torbjörn Säll and Bengt O. Bengtsson. Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley. $60.00 (paper). viii + 269 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9781119124030 (pb); 9781119124054 (eb). 2017. (2018) (0)
- Web Visualization: Chi-square contingency analysis (2018) (0)
- Datasets for Whitlock & Schluter's "The Analysis of Biological Data" (2015) (0)
- Growth genes are implicated in the evolutionary divergence of sympatric piscivorous and insectivorous rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) (2021) (0)
- I.4. From DNA to Phenotypes (2013) (0)
- The cuckoo chick tricks their reed warbler foster parents, but what about other host species? (1999) (0)
- No evidence of positive assortative mating for genetic quality in fruit flies (2019) (0)
- Web Visualization: Sampling from a Normal distribution (2018) (0)
- Web Visualization: Confidence intervals for the mean (2018) (0)
- Confidence Intervals for the Mean (2018) (0)
- Web Visualization: Sampling from a non-Normally distributed population (CLT) (2018) (0)
- I NFERENCES ABOUT THE DISTRIBUTION OF DOMINANCE DRAWN FROM YEAST 1 GENE KNOCKOUT DATA 2 3 4 (2010) (0)
- Sampling from a Normal Distribution (2019) (0)
- Virulence : damage to a host arising from extraction of resources by a pathogenic infection or collateral damage produced by the host ’ s immune response INTRODUCTION Inflammation (2012) (0)
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