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Researcher in evolutionary genomics. Wang and collaborators investigated genomic patterns of pleiotropy, connecting the number of traits affected by a gene with questions about the evolution of biological complexity.[ref]
Genomic patterns of pleiotropy and the evolution of complexity by Zhi Wang and others. Title, author list and reported study
Researcher in evolutionary genetics. Orr analyzed distributions of factors fixed during adaptation, connecting assumptions about the fitness landscape with predictions about the sizes of evolutionary steps.[ref]
Researcher in experimental evolution. Rokyta and collaborators measured beneficial mutation effects in viruses, testing whether their distribution followed a commonly used exponential model rather than assuming that form.[ref]
Beneficial fitness effects are not exponential for two viruses by Darin R. Rokyta and others. Title, author list and reported study
Researcher in evolutionary genetics. Melissa M. Gray and collaborators investigated rapid, extreme body-size change in island mice, connecting an unusual natural phenotype with its inherited determinants.[ref]
Genetics of Rapid and Extreme Size Evolution in Island Mice by Melissa M. Gray and others. Title, author list and reported study
Researcher in meiosis. Keeney and collaborators showed that Spo11 catalyzes programmed DNA double-strand breaks, connecting the initiation of meiotic genetic recombination with a specific molecular activity.[ref]
Researcher in experimental evolution. McDonald and collaborators investigated how sex changes the dynamics of adaptation, connecting genetic recombination with the competing fates of mutations in evolving populations.[ref]
Researcher in bacterial genetics. Rayssiguier and collaborators investigated how mismatch-repair defects weaken the barrier to genetic recombination between related bacteria, connecting DNA surveillance with maintenance of genetic separation.[ref]
Researcher in genomic imprinting. Vrana and collaborators investigated disrupted imprinting in hybrids between Peromyscus species, connecting parent-of-origin regulation with incompatibilities between genomes.[ref]
Genomic imprinting is disrupted in interspecific Peromyscus hybrids by Paul B. Vrana and others. Title, author list and reported study
Geneticist who analyzed the relationship between sex chromosomes and hybrid sterility. Haldane’s 1922 paper identified the recurring association of absent, rare or sterile hybrid offspring with the heterogametic sex.[ref]
Sex ratio and unisexual sterility in hybrid animals by J. B. S. Haldane. Title, author list and reported study
Portrait of J. B. S. Haldane
. Author not identified on the file page; source: University of Washington modern-synthesis image collection. Public domain in the United States (PD-US). Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.Researcher in phenotypic plasticity and evolution. With David W. Pfennig, Levis evaluated a frequency-dependent prediction of plasticity-led adaptation, turning a proposed evolutionary sequence into an empirical comparison.[ref]
Researcher in evolutionary developmental biology. With Nicholas A. Levis, Pfennig tested predictions of plasticity-led evolution, connecting environmentally responsive traits with later adaptive genetic change.[ref]
Researcher in statistical phylogenetics. Felsenstein developed a maximum-likelihood approach to inferring evolutionary trees from DNA sequences, connecting explicit models of sequence change with quantitative comparison of tree hypotheses.[ref]
Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: a maximum likelihood approach by Joseph Felsenstein. Title, author list and reported study
Researcher in statistical phylogenetics. Rannala and collaborators developed probabilistic approaches to evolutionary-tree inference, connecting models of sequence evolution with uncertainty about relationships and divergence times.[ref]
Conceptual issues in Bayesian divergence time estimation by Bruce Rannala. Title, author list and reported study
Researcher in molecular evolution. Yang and collaborators developed statistical approaches to evolutionary trees and divergence times, connecting sequence data and fossil information with explicit uncertainty in inferred histories.[ref]
An evolutionary biologist who used molecular evidence to test chordate relationships, supporting tunicates as the closest living relatives of vertebrates.[ref]
Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates by Frédéric Delsuc and others. Authorship and research contribution
An evolutionary biologist who used ultraconserved genomic elements to investigate turtle relationships and test their placement relative to archosaurs.[ref]
An evolutionary biologist who investigated geographic differences in mate discrimination in Drosophila, testing evidence for reinforcement.[ref]
Speciation driven by natural selection in Drosophila by Mohamed A. Noor. Author roster and experimental or comparative findings
An evolutionary biologist who investigated the genetic basis of stronger mate discrimination, testing speciation through reinforcement.[ref]
The Genetics of Speciation by Reinforcement by Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos and others. Author roster and experimental or comparative findings
An evolutionary biologist who investigated genetic variation in Drosophila foraging, combining behavioural measurements, kinase activity and transgenic rescue; the source credits these initials.[ref]
Natural Behavior Polymorphism Due to a cGMP-Dependent Protein Kinase of Drosophila by K. A. Osborne and others. Author roster and experimental or comparative findings
An evolutionary biologist who tested Müllerian mimicry in the field through butterfly release experiments with different local co-models and release densities.[ref]
Three-butterfly system provides a field test of müllerian mimicry by Durrell D. Kapan. Author roster and experimental or comparative findings
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