Evolutionary Biology

The Generalized Haldane (GH) model tracking population size changes and resolving paradoxes of genetic drift

1. Yongsen Ruan
2. Xiaopei Wang
3. Mei Hou
4. Liying Huang
5. Wenjie Diao
6. Miles Tracy
7. Shuhua Xu
8. Weiwei Zhai
9. Zhongqi Liufu
10. Haijun Wen
11. Chung-I Wu

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  eLife Assessment

  This study presents a useful model of genetic drift by incorporating variance in reproductive success, aiming to address several apparent paradoxes in molecular evolution. However, some of the apparent paradoxes only arise in the most basic version of standard models and have been reconciled in more advanced models. Nonetheless, this paper offers intuitive explanations for these apparent paradoxes, by adopting a new perspective and solid modeling and analysis. More broadly, the proposed model provides an alternative framework to address puzzling observations in molecular evolution, which will be of interest to evolutionary and population geneticists.

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Brain size dependent speciation and extinction rates in birds and the cognitive buffer hypothesis

1. Jack W. Oyston
2. Michael R. May
3. Ryan N Felice

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Discordant population structure inferred from male- and female-type mtDNAs from Macoma balthica, a bivalve species characterized by doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria

1. Sabrina Le Cam
2. Julie Brémaud
3. Vanessa Becquet
4. Valérie Huet
5. Emmanuel Dubillot
6. Pascale Garcia
7. Amélia Viricel
8. Sophie Breton
9. Eric Pante

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Fluctuations and the limit of predictability in protein evolution

1. Saverio Rossi
2. Leonardo Di Bari
3. Martin Weigt
4. Francesco Zamponi

Reviewed by Arcadia Science