Misc

Favourite papers

I believe that sharing favourite papers including those outside your projects helps communicate your broad interests. Here I list a subset of papers which influenced the way I think.

Population genetics

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Lawson, D.J., van Dorp, L., and Falush, D. (2018). A tutorial on how not to over-interpret STRUCTURE and ADMIXTURE bar plots. Nat Commun 9, 3258. 10.1038/s41467-018-05257-7.

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Booker, T.R., Yeaman, S., and Whitlock, M.C. (2021). Global adaptation complicates the interpretation of genome scans for local adaptation. Evolution Letters 5, 4–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.208.

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Sasani, T.A., Ashbrook, D.G., Beichman, A.C., Lu, L., Palmer, A.A., Williams, R.W., Pritchard, J.K., and Harris, K. (2022). A natural mutator allele shapes mutation spectrum variation in mice. Nature 605, 497–502. 10.1038/s41586-022-04701-5.

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Shipilina, D., Pal, A., Stankowski, S., Chan, Y.F., and Barton, N.H. (2023). On the origin and structure of haplotype blocks. Molecular Ecology 32, 1441–1457. 10.1111/mec.16793.

Behaviour and brain

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Gardner, T.J., Naef, F., and Nottebohm, F. (2005). Freedom and Rules: The Acquisition and Reprogramming of a Bird’s Learned Song. Science 308, 1046–1049. 10.1126/science.1108214.

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Tanaka, R., Higuchi, T., Kohatsu, S., Sato, K., and Yamamoto, D. (2017). Optogenetic Activation of the fruitless-Labeled Circuitry in Drosophila subobscura Males Induces Mating Motor Acts. J. Neurosci. 37, 11662–11674. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1943-17.2017.

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Barkan, C.L., Kelley, D.B., and Zornik, E. (2018). Premotor neuron divergence reflects vocal evolution. The Journal of Neuroscience 38, 0089–18. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0089-18.2018.

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Coleman, M.J., Day, N.F., Rivera-Parra, P., and Fortune, E.S. (2021). Neurophysiological coordination of duet singing. PNAS 118. 10.1073/pnas.2018188118.

Complex traits

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Berthold, P. (1991). Genetic control of migratory behaviour in birds. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 6, 254–257. 10.1016/0169-5347(91)90072-6.

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Frankel, N.S., Erezyilmaz, D.F., McGregor, A.P., Wang, S., Payre, F., and Stern, D.L. (2011). Morphological evolution caused by many subtle-effect substitutions in regulatory DNA. Nature 474, 598–603. 10.1038/nature10200.

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Osterwalder, M., Barozzi, I., Tissiéres, V., Fukuda-Yuzawa, Y., Mannion, B.J., Afzal, S.Y., Lee, E.A., Zhu, Y., Plajzer-Frick, I., Pickle, C.S., et al. (2018). Enhancer redundancy provides phenotypic robustness in mammalian development. Nature 554, 239–243. 10.1038/nature25461.

Phenotypic plasticity, cryptic variation, and evolutionary novelty

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Waddington, C.H. (1953). Genetic assimilation of an acquired character. Evolution 7, 118–126. 10.2307/2405747.

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Mery, F., and Kawecki, T.J. (2004). The Effect of Learning on Experimental Evolution of Resource Preference in Drosophila Melanogaster. Evolution 58, 757. 10.1554/03-540.

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Suzuki, Yuichiro., and Nijhout, H.F. (2006). Evolution of a Polyphenism by Genetic Accommodation. Science 311, 650–652. 10.1126/science.1118888.

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Zheng, J., Payne, J.L., and Wagner, A. (2019). Cryptic genetic variation accelerates evolution by opening access to diverse adaptive peaks. Science 365, 347–353. 10.1126/science.aax1837.

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Podcast (in Japanese)

A friend of mine and I host a small podcast. We introduce papers to each other in a journal club style.

 

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