Population history and natural selection shape patterns of genetic variation in 132 genes

JM Akey, MA Eberle, MJ Rieder, CS Carlson… - PLoS …, 2004 - journals.plos.org
… population demographic history and natural selection shaped patterns of DNA sequence …
the confounding effects of natural selection and demographic history on patterns of genetic …

Natural selection and shape perception

M Singh, DD Hoffman - Shape perception in human and computer vision …, 2013 - Springer
… Because natural selection has tuned our perception of shape to be an adaptive guide to
behavior, our perception of shape has evolved to be tightly coupled with our actions, a coupling …

Gene flow and natural selection shape spatial patterns of genes in tree populations: implications for evolutionary processes and applications

VL Sork - Evolutionary applications, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… gene flow and natural selection shape geographic patterns of … patterns of genetic variation
has investigated the interacting impacts of geography and climate on gene flow and selection. …

Why More Leaflets? The Role of Natural Selection in Shaping the Spatial Pattern of Leaf-Shape Variation in Oxytropis diversifolia (Fabaceae) and Two Close …

H Wang, PL Liu, J Li, H Yang, Q Li… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… to assess the role of natural selection in explaining the spatial pattern of leaf shape in O. …
: (1) What is the spatial pattern of leaf-shape variation across the distribution range of O. …

Natural Selection Shapes Genome-Wide Patterns of Copy-Number Polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster

JJ Emerson, M Cardoso-Moreira, JO Borevitz, M Long - science, 2008 - science.org
… variants, which is a common signature of natural selection. However, an excess of rare …
natural selection (9, 19). Our estimates show that natural selection is a pervasive force shaping

Natural Selection on Erysimum mediohispanicum Flower Shape: Insights into the Evolution of Zygomorphy

JM Gómez, F Perfectti… - The American …, 2006 - journals.uchicago.edu
… As an estimate of the pollinator preference pattern, we performed a forward stepwise
multiple regression of the pollinator visitation rate on morphological traits of the plants. In this …

Individual and population differences shape species interactions and natural selection

D Start - The American Naturalist, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
… for patterns of natural selection. I suggest that intraspecific variation can affect communities
and natural selection by acting through individual- and population-level mechanisms. …

Natural selection shapes nucleotide polymorphism across the genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae

AD Cutter, JY Choi - Genome research, 2010 - genome.cshlp.org
… Because ancestral polymorphism would be expected to predominate for any cryptic structure,
our inference that natural selection shapes patterns of polymorphism across the genome …

MHC studies in nonmodel vertebrates: what have we learned about natural selection in 15 years?

L Bernatchez, C Landry - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… This may limit our ability to formulate testable hypotheses regarding the possible role of
selection in shaping patterns of variation at these genes and also to assess the possibility that …

Natural selection in gene-dense regions shapes the genomic pattern of polymorphism in wild and domesticated rice

JM Flowers, J Molina, S Rubinstein… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… We establish that these patterns are unlikely to be explained by neutral mutation rate biases
and demonstrate that a model of background selection with variable rates of deleterious …