MO: to read and discuss research papers and books on mathematical theories of evolution.
We meet (approximately) every second Thursday at 2:30PM in Biodiv 303.
All students, postdocs, and faculty interested in mathematical/theoretical biology are welcome. You do not have to be a math whizz! Plus, we've often got treats and drinks.
We have a mailing list: see below for more information.
Upcoming papers
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 25th January 2018 | Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 1 and chapter 2. |
Previous papers
2017
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 11th January 2018 | Maynard Smith & Haigh (1974) The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene |
| 12th December 2017 |
Starrfelt & Kokko (2012) Bet-hedging -- a triple trade-off between
means, variances and correlations
Stearns (2000) Daniel Bernoulli (1738): evolution and economics under ris k |
| 28th November 2017 |
Barton et al. (2017) The infinitesimal model: definition, derivations
and implications [see also Turelli (2017) Commentary: Fisher's infinitesimal model: A stor y for the ages] |
| 14th November 2017 |
Haldane (1957) The cost of natural selection Grant & Flake (1974) Solutions to the cost-of-selection dilemma Maynard Smith (1968) "Haldane's dilemma" and the rate of evolution |
| 31st October 2017 | Visiting researcher Vincent Calvez presents his work on maladaptation in a changing environment |
| 17th October 2017 | Quickfall & Marshall (2017) The evolution of mutualism with modifiers |
| 3rd October 2017 | Haldane (1964) A defense of beanbag genetics, with commentary from Crow (2008) and Ewens (2008) |
| 8th September 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 9: Distributions of gene frequencies in populations |
| 28th August 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 8: Stochastic processes |
| 11th August 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 7: Properties of a finite population |
| 31st July 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 6: Populations in approximate equilibrium |
| 14th July 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 5: Selection (5.8-5.12) |
| 10th July 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 5: Selection (5.1-5.7) |
| 30th June 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 4: Correlation between relatives and assortative mating |
| 19th June 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 3: Inbreeding |
| 12th June 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 2: Randomly mating populations |
| 2nd June 2017 | Crow & Kimura (1970) An introduction to population genetic theory. Chapter 1: Models of population growth |
| 7th April 2017 | Queller (2017) Fundamental theorems of evolution |
| 24th March 2017 | Savage et al. (2004) Effects of body size and temperature on population growth |
| 10th March 2017 | Wakano et al. (2009) Spatial dynamics of ecological public goods SOM |
| 10th February 2017 | Good and Desai (2014) Deleterious passengers in adapting populations |
| 13th January 2017 | Bergstromm and Lachmann (1997) Signalling among relatives I: is costly signalling too costly? |
2016
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 9th December 2016 | Martin and Lenormand (2015) Fitness effects of mutations across enviroments |
| 18th November 2016 | Guillon (2016) Sex ratio evolution when fitness and dispersal vary | 14th October 2016 | Durrett (1999) Spatial models for hybrid zones |
| 30th September 2016 | Barton (1979) The Dynamics of Hybrid Zones |
| 16th September 2016 | Matuszewski et al. (2015) Catch me if you can: Adaptation from standing genetic variation to a moving phenotypic optimum |
| 10th June 2016 | Uecker and Hermisson (2016) The Role of Recombination in Evolutionary Rescue |
| 27th May 2016 | Chisholm et al. (2016) The emergence of latent infection in the early evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| 13th May 2016 | Gao et al. (2016) Interpreting the Dependence of Mutation Rates on Age and Time |
| 29th April 2016 | Connallon and Clark (2014a) Balancing Selection in Species with Separate Sexes: Insights from Fisher’s Geometric Model |
| 8th April 2016 | Yamamichi and Ellner (2016) Antagonistic coevolution between quantitative and Mendelian traits |
| 11th March 2016 | Ubeda et.al. (2014) On the origin of sex chromosomes from meiotic drive |
| 16th March 2016 | Wakano Miura (2014) Trade-off between learning and exploitation |
| 26th February 2016 | Fyon et. al. (2015) Enhancer Runaway and the Evolution of Diploid Gene Expression |
| 12th February 2016 | Muirhead and Presgraves (2016) Hybrid Incompatibilities, Local Adaptation, and the Genomic Distribution of Natural Introgression between Species |
| 29th January 2016 | Coulson et al. (2015) Quantitative Genetics Meets Integral Projection Models. |
| 15th January 2016 | Lion (2015) Moment equations in spatial evolutionary ecology. J. Theoretical Biology |
2015
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 11th September 2015 | Birch J and Okasha S (2015) Kin selection and its critics. BioScience 65(1): 22-32. |
| 22nd May 2015 | Shaw AK and Kokko H (2015) Dispersal Evolution in the Presence of Allee Effects Can Speed Up or Slow Down Invasions? Am Nat 185(5): 631-639 |
| 24th April 2015 | Kuijper, B and Hoyle, RB (2015) When to rely on maternal effects and when on phenotypic plasticity? Evolution 69(4): 950-968 |
| 9th April 2015 | Peischl S, Kirkpatrick M, Excoffier L (2015) Expansion Load and the Evolutionary Dynamics of a Species Range. American Naturalist 185(4): E81-E93 |
| 27th March 2015 | Engelstädter J (2015) , Host-Parasite Coevolutionary Dynamics with Generalized Success/Failure Infection Genetics. American Naturalist 185(5) E000. |
| 13th March 2015 | Wakano J and Iwasa Y (2013) , Evolutionary Branching in a Finite Population: Deterministic Brancing vs. Stochastic Branching. Genetics 193: 229-241. |
| 30th January 2015 | Polechová J, Barton N (2015) , Limits to adaptation along environmental gradients. bioRxivdoi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/012690. |
| 16th January 2015 | Cheptou P and Massol F (2009) , Pollination fluctuations drive evolutionary syndromes linking dispersal and mating system. Am Nat 107(1) 46-55 ( Appendices A-C ). See also Pannell J and Barrett (1998) Baker's law revisited: reproductive assurance in a metapopulation. Evolution 53(3) 657-668. |
2014
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 14th November 2014 | Rueffler C, Egas M and Metz JAJ (2006) , Evolutionary Predictions Should Be Based on Individual‐Level Traits. Am Nat 168(5) 148-162. |
| 24th October 2014 | G Parker , The origin and maintenance of two sexes (anisogamy), and their gamete sizes by gamete competition. In Togashi and Cox (2011) The Evolution Of Isogamy, Cambridge University Press p17-68. |
| 10th October 2014 | Hurst and Hamilton (1992), Cytoplasmic Fusion and the Nature of Sexes. Pro. R. Soc. Lond. B 247 189-194. |
| 26th September 2014 | Hamilton (1967), Extraordinary Sex Ratios. Science 156: 478-488. |
| 28th March 2014 | Hansen (2013), Why epistasis is important for selection and adaptation. Evolution 67-12: 3501–3511 |
| 28th February 2014 | van den Heuvel et al. (2013), The Predictive Adaptive Response: Modeling the Life-History Evolution of the Butterfly Bicyclus anynana in Seasonal Environments. mathematical details supp mat, supplementary figures and tables |
| 7th February 2014 | Turelli et al. (2001), Stable two-allele polymorphisms maintained by fluctuating selection and seed banks: protecting the blues in Linanthus parryae. |
| 24th January 2014 | Allen et al. (2013), The Limitations of Inclusive Fitness. |
| 17th January 2014 | McPeek and Holt (1992), The Evolution of Dispersal in Spatially and Temporally Varying Environments. |
2013
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 22nd November 2013 | Weissman et al (2010), The rate of fitness-valley crossing in sexual populations. |
| 8th November 2013 | Sellis et al (2011), Heterozygote advantage as a natural consequence of adaptation in diploids. PNAS 108(51): 20666-20671. Supp Mat |
| 24th October 2013 | Nee et al (1994), The Reconstructed Evolutionary Process. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 344: 305-311. |
| 10th October 2013 | Barfield et al (2011), Evolution in Stage-Structured Populations. American Naturalist 177(4): 397-409. |
| 27 September 2013 | Metz et al (1992), How Should We Define 'Fitness' for General Ecological Scenarios? TREE 7(6): 198-202. |
| 10 September 2013 | Rousset F. (2004), Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations. Chap. 4: Interpretations of Inbreeding and Relatedness Coefficients in Subdivided Populations. F. Rousset's "Corrections and afterthoughts" |
| 28 August 2013 | Rousset F. (2004), Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations. Chap. 3: Spatially Homogeneous Dispersal: The Island Model and Isolation by Distance. |
| 15 August 2013 | Rousset F. (2004), Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations. Chap. 5: Evolutionary Dynamics. |
| 12 August 2013 | Rousset F. (2004), Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations. Chap. 1 and 2: Selection and Drift. |
| 10 July 2013 |
Evans M.R. et al (2013),
Do simple models lead to generality in ecology? TREE, in press. 10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.022. |
| 6 June 2013 | Shpak M and Proulx SR (2013), The role of life cycle and migration in selection for variance in offspring number. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 2007, 69:837-860. |
| 24 May, 2013 | Otto S.P. and Day T. (2007), A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution, Chapter 15: Analyzing continuous Stochastic Models - Diffusion in Time and Space. |
| 3 May, 2013 | Frank, S. A. (2012), Natural selection. IV. The Price equation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25: 1002–1019. |
| 19 April, 2013 | Pavlidis P., Metzler D. and Stephan W. (2012), Selective sweeps in multilocus models of quantitative traits. Genetics. 2012 Sep;192(1):225-39. |
| 5 April, 2013 | Kirkpatrick M. and Peischl S. (2012), Evolutionary rescue by beneficial mutations in environments that change in space and time. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B., January 19, 2013 368 1610 20120082; doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0082 1471-2970. SOM. |
| 8 March, 2013 | Rajon, E. and Masel, J. (2013), Compensatory evolution and the origins of innovations. Genetics, Early Online. |
| 22 February, 2013 | Ripa, J. and Dieckmann, U. (2013), Mutant invasions and adaptive dynamics in variable environments. Evolution. doi: 10.1111/evo.12046 (online early; supp info added to the pdf) |
| 8 February, 2013 | Abrams, P. A., Tucker, C. M. and Gilbert, B. (2013), Evolution of the storage effect. Evolution, 67: 315–327. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01756.x. +SuppInfo. |
| 25 January, 2013 | Coulson, T. and Tuljapurkar S. (2008). The dynamics of a quantitative trait in an age-structured population living in a variable environment, The American Naturalist 172(5):599-612. +App A. |
| 11 January, 2013 | Otto S.P., Servedio, M.R. & Nuismer, S.L. (2008). Frequency-Dependent Selection and the Evolution of Assortative Mating, Genetics 179(4): 2091-2112. |
2012
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 16 November, 2012 | Chevin (2012). Genetic contraints on adaptation to a changing environment, Evolution (early view), doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01809.x |
| 1 November, 2012 | Zhang (2012). Fisher's geometrical model of fitness landscape and variance in fitness within a changing environment, Evolution 66(8): 2350-2368 |
| 5 October, 2012 | van Doorn and Kirkpatrick (2007). Turnover of sex chromosomes induced by sexual conflict. Nature, 449: 909-912. doi:10.1038/nature06178 |
| 21 September, 2012 | Hanski, I. et al (2011). Eco-Evolutionary Metapopulation Dynamics and the Spatial Scale of Adaptation. The American Naturalist, 177(1), 29-43. doi:10.1086/657625 |
| 7 September, 2012 | Peischl and Kirkpatrick (2012), Establishment of New Mutations in Changing Environments, Genetics 191(3): 895-906. |
| 9 August, 2012 | Blanquart F. et al (2012), The effects of migration and drift on local adaptation to a heterogeneous environment. JEB 25(7) 1351-1363 [supp info added to the pdf]. |
| 26 July, 2012 | Bürger R. and Akerman A. (2011), The effects of linkage and gene flow on local adaptation: a two-locus continent-island model. Theor Popul Biol. 80(4):272-88. |
| 14 June, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 8: Developmental Evolution. |
| 17 May, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 9: Evolutionary Game Theory and Strategy Dynamics. |
| 2 May, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 10: Multilevel Selection. |
| 26 April, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 7: Quantitative Genetics. |
| 5 April, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 6: The Algebra of Evolution: Price's Theorem. |
| 29 March, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 5: Diffusion Theory. |
| 22 March, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 4: Effective Population Size. |
| 8 March, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 3: Drift at Neutral Loci. |
| 23 February, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 2: Selection on Two Loci. (notes) |
| 9 February, 2012 | Rice (2004) Evolutionary Theory. Chap 1: Selection on One Locus. |
| 26 January, 2012 | Kremer and Le Corre (2011), Decoupling of differentiation between traits and their underlying genes in response to divergent selection. Heredity, doi: 10.1038/hdy.2011.81. |
| 12 January, 2012 | Lee et al. (2012), An evolutionary mechanism for diversity in siderophore-producing bacteria. Ecology Letters, 15: 119-125. |
2011
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 8 December, 2011 | Via and Lande (1985), Genotype-environment interaction and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. Evolution, 39: 505-523. |
| 24 November, 2011 | Doebeli and Ispolatov (2010), Complexity and Diversity. Science 328: 494-497. |
| 10 November, 2011 | Bond and Midgley (1995), Kill Thy Neighbour: An Individualistic Argument for the Evolution of Flammability. Oikos 73(1): 79-85 |
| 27 October, 2011 | Kimura (1962), On the Probability of Fixation of Mutant Genes in a Population, Genetics 47: 713-719 |
| 13 October, 2011 | Geritz et al. (1998), Evolutionarily singular strategies and the adaptive growth and branching of the evolutionary tree. Evolutionary Ecology 12: 35-57. |
| 29 September, 2011 | Lenormand and Otto (2000), The Evolution of Recombination in a Heterogeneous Environment, Genetics 156(1): 423-438 |
| 15 September, 2011 | Thibert-Plante and Hendry, 2011. Factors influencing progress toward sympatric speciation, JEB (Early view). |
2010
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 28 July, 2010 | Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapters 5 & 6. |
| 19 July, 2010 | Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 4. |
| 17 June, 2010 | Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 3. |
| 10 June, 2010 | Levins 1968. Evolution in changing environments, chapter 1 and chapter 2. |
2009
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 19 October | Hammerschmidt et al. 2009. When to go: optimization of host switching in parasites with complex life cycles. Evolution 63: 1976-1986. |
| 5 October | Tarnita et al. 2009. Evolutionary dynamics in set structured populations. PNAS 106: 8601-8604. |
| 21 September | Draghi & Wagner 2008. The evolutionary dynamics of evolvability in a gene network model. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 599-611. |
| 9 June | Proulx S.R. & Phillips, P.C. 2005. The opportunity for canalization and the evolution of genetic networks. The American Naturalist 165: 147-162. |
| 3 June | Wagner G.P. & Altenberg L. 1996. Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability Evolution 50: 967-976. |
| 27 May | Maynard Smith J. 1981. Sympatric speciation American Naturalist 100: 637-650. |
| 11 May | Felsenstein J. 1981. Skepticism towards Santa Rosalia, or why are there so few kinds of animals? Evolution 35: 124-138. |
| 1 May | Nozawa M., Suzuki Y. & Nei M 2009. Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods. PNAS in press. |
| 3 April | Yukilevich R., Lachance J., Aoki F., & True J.R. 2008. Long-term adaptation of epistatic genetic networks. Evolution 62: 2215-2235. |
| 27 March | Palmer M.E. & Feldman M.W. 2008. Dynamics of hybrid incompatibility in gene networks in a constant environment. Evolution 63: 418-431. |
| 20 March | Uyeda J.C., Arnold S.J., Hohenlohe P.A. & Mead L.S. 2009. Drift promotes speciation by sexual selection. Evolution 63: 583-594. |
| 13 March | Gandon S. & Nuismer S.L. 2009. Interactions between genetic drift, gene flow, and selection mosaics drive parasite local adaptation. The American Naturalist 173: 212-224. |
| 6 March | Hey J. & Nielsen R. 2004. multilocus methods for estimating population sizes, migration rates and divergence time, with applications to the divergence of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis. Genetics 167: 747-760. |
| 28 February | Lande R. 2007. Expected relative fitness and the adaptive topography of fluctuating selection. Evolution 61: 1835-1846 |
| 20 February | Johnson T. & Barton N. 2005. Theoretical models of selection and mutation on quantitative traits. Philosohpical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 360: 1411-1425. |
| 13 February | Kerr, B. & Godfrey-Smith, P. 2009. Generalization of the Price equation for evolutionary change. Evolution 63: 531-536. |
| 6 February | Case, T.J. & Taper, M.L. 2000. Interspecific Competition, Environmental Gradients, Gene Flow, and the Coevolution of Species' Borders. The American Naturalist 155: 583-605. |
| 30 January | Martin, G. & Lenormand, T. 2006. A general multivariate extension of Fisher's geometrical model and the distribution of mutation fitness effects across species. Evolution 60:893-907. |
| 23 January | Barton, N.H. 2001. The role of hybridization in evolution. Molecular Ecology 10: 551-568. |
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