Background Selection 20 Years on

The Role of Background Selection in Shaping Patterns of Molecular Evolution and Variation: Evidence from Variability on the Drosophila X Chromosome

(2012) B. Charlesworth   GENETICS

Rates and Fitness Consequences of New Mutations in Humans

(2012) Peter D. Keightley   GENETICS

The Effects of Deleterious Mutations on Evolution at Linked Sites

(2012) Brian Charlesworth   GENETICS

Genomic Variation in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) C. H. Langley et al.   GENETICS

Distortions in Genealogies Due to Purifying Selection

(2012) L. E. Nicolaisen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk

(2012) Augustine Kong et al.   NATURE

Sex-Specific Adaptation Drives Early Sex Chromosome Evolution in Drosophila

(2012) Q. Zhou et al.   SCIENCE

Recombination Modulates How Selection Affects Linked Sites in Drosophila

(2012) Suzanne E. McGaugh et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Limits to the Rate of Adaptive Substitution in Sexual Populations

(2012) Daniel B. Weissman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genomic Data Reveal a Complex Making of Humans

(2012) Isabel Alves et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Many Landscapes of Recombination in Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Josep M. Comeron et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Structure of Genealogies in the Presence of Purifying Selection: A Fitness-Class Coalescent

(2011) Aleksandra M. Walczak et al.   GENETICS

The Joint Effects of Background Selection and Genetic Recombination on Local Gene Genealogies

(2011) Kai Zeng et al.   GENETICS

How closely does genetic diversity in finite populations conform to predictions of neutral theory? Large deficits in regions of low recombination

(2011) R Frankham   HEREDITY

Analyses of X-linked and autosomal genetic variation in population-scale whole genome sequencing

(2011) Srikanth Gottipati et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Classic Selective Sweeps Were Rare in Recent Human Evolution

(2011) R. D. Hernandez et al.   SCIENCE

Contrasting population genetic patterns within the white-throated sparrow genome (Zonotrichia albicollis)

(2010) Lynn Y Huynh et al.   BMC GENETICS

Estimating the Parameters of Selection on Nonsynonymous Mutations in Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. miranda

(2010) P. R. Haddrill et al.   GENETICS

The Effects of Demography and Linkage on the Estimation of Selection and Mutation Parameters

(2010) K. Zeng et al.   GENETICS

Muller's Ratchet and the Degeneration of the Drosophila miranda Neo-Y Chromosome

(2010) V. B. Kaiser et al.   GENETICS

Genetic and Evolutionary Correlates of Fine-Scale Recombination Rate Variation in Drosophila persimilis

(2010) Laurie S. Stevison et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

A Continuous-State Coalescent and the Impact of Weak Selection on the Structure of Gene Genealogies

(2010) B. D. O'Fallon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The ratio of human X chromosome to autosome diversity is positively correlated with genetic distance from genes

(2010) Michael F Hammer et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genetic hitchhiking versus background selection: the controversy and its implications

(2010) W. Stephan   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rate, molecular spectrum, and consequences of human mutation

(2010) M. Lynch   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reduced Effectiveness of Selection Caused by a Lack of Recombination

(2009) Andrea J. Betancourt et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Gene Genealogies Strongly Distorted by Weakly Interfering Mutations in Constant Environments

(2009) J. Seger et al.   GENETICS

Recombination Rates May Affect the Ratio of X to Autosomal Noncoding Polymorphism in African Populations of Drosophila melanogaster

(2009) B. Vicoso et al.   GENETICS

Analysis of the genome sequences of three Drosophila melanogaster spontaneous mutation accumulation lines

(2009) P. D. Keightley et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Recombination Yet Inefficient Selection along the Drosophila melanogaster Subgroup's Fourth Chromosome

(2009) J. Roman Arguello et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Estimating the Rate of Adaptive Molecular Evolution in the Presence of Slightly Deleterious Mutations and Population Size Change

(2009) A. Eyre-Walker et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Effective population size and patterns of molecular evolution and variation

(2009) Brian Charlesworth   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The different levels of genetic diversity in sex chromosomes and autosomes

(2009) Hans Ellegren   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Widespread Genomic Signatures of Natural Selection in Hominid Evolution

(2009) Graham McVicker et al.   PLoS Genetics

Pervasive Natural Selection in the Drosophila Genome?

(2009) Guy Sella et al.   PLoS Genetics

Pervasive Hitchhiking at Coding and Regulatory Sites in Humans

(2009) James J. Cai et al.   PLoS Genetics

Loss of Least-Loaded Class in Asexual Populations Due to Drift and Epistasis

(2008) K. Jain   GENETICS

Population genetic analysis of shotgun assemblies of genomic sequences from multiple individuals

(2008) I. Hellmann et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Fine-scale mapping of recombination rate in Drosophila refines its correlation to diversity and divergence

(2008) R. J. Kulathinal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of deleterious mutations on evolution in non-recombining genomes

(2008) Vera B. Kaiser et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Genomic degradation of a young Y chromosome in Drosophila miranda

(2008) Doris Bachtrog et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY