Suggested paper list for Spring 2015

Like last Spring, we are offering the students following our tutorial Genomes, Ecology, Evolution, etc. the opportunity to chose the 8 papers which we will discuss. Here is the list of papers which we propose:

  1. Lamichhaney et al 2015 Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing Nature 518: 371–375
  2. Poelstra et al 2014 The genomic landscape underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows Science 344: 1410-1414
  3. Zhan et al 2013 Peregrine and saker falcon genome sequences provide insights into evolution of a predatory lifestyle Nature Genetics 45: 563–566
  4. Foote et al 2015 Convergent evolution of the genomes of marine mammals Nature Genetics doi:10.1038/ng.3198
  5. Arbeithuber et al 2015 Crossovers are associated with mutation and biased gene conversion at recombination hotspots PNAS 112: 2109–2114
  6. Zhan et al 2014 The genetics of monarch butterfly migration and warning colouration Nature 514: 317–321
  7. Villar et al 2015 Enhancer Evolution across 20 Mammalian Species Cell 160: 554–566
  8. Artieri and Fraser 2014 Evolution at two levels of gene expression in yeast Genome Res 24: 411-421
  9. Brawnd et al 2014 The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish Nature 513: 375–381
  10. Gurdasani et al 2015 The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa Nature 517: 327–332

There are 10, only 8 must remain…

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