Published in Evolution on October 01, 2003
Characteristics, causes and evolutionary consequences of male-biased mutation. Proc Biol Sci (2007) 1.57
Speciation in birds: genes, geography, and sexual selection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.55
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Why do species vary in their rate of molecular evolution? Biol Lett (2009) 1.45
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Reduced variation on the chicken Z chromosome. Genetics (2004) 1.39
The chicken (Gallus gallus) Z chromosome contains at least three nonlinear evolutionary strata. Genetics (2008) 1.33
Mutation rate is linked to diversification in birds. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.33
Evolution of an avian pigmentation gene correlates with a measure of sexual selection. Proc Biol Sci (2007) 1.11
Doubts about complex speciation between humans and chimpanzees. Trends Ecol Evol (2009) 1.10
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Evolutionary rate variation in Old World monkeys. Biol Lett (2009) 0.97
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Evidence that replication-associated mutation alone does not explain between-chromosome differences in substitution rates. Genome Biol Evol (2009) 0.88
Male-driven evolution in closely related species of the mouse genus Mus. J Mol Evol (2005) 0.88
Substitution rate heterogeneity and the male mutation bias. J Mol Evol (2006) 0.87
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Sperm competition can drive a male-biased mutation rate. J Theor Biol (2007) 0.79
Darwinism for the Genomic Age: Connecting Mutation to Diversification. Front Genet (2017) 0.75
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The genome of a songbird. Nature (2010) 5.90
A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Nature (2004) 5.24
Rescue of a severely bottlenecked wolf (Canis lupus) population by a single immigrant. Proc Biol Sci (2003) 2.76
Quantifying the slightly deleterious mutation model of molecular evolution. Mol Biol Evol (2002) 2.65
Mutation rate variation in the mammalian genome. Curr Opin Genet Dev (2003) 2.63
Genes of domestic mammals augmented by backcrossing with wild ancestors. Trends Genet (2005) 2.04
Cattle domestication in the Near East was followed by hybridization with aurochs bulls in Europe. Proc Biol Sci (2005) 2.01
Male-biased mutation rate and divergence in autosomal, z-linked and w-linked introns of chicken and Turkey. Mol Biol Evol (2004) 2.01
Challenging claims in the study of migratory birds and climate change. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc (2011) 1.99
Evolutionary strata on the chicken Z chromosome: implications for sex chromosome evolution. Genetics (2004) 1.80
Publication bias in ecology and evolution: an empirical assessment using the 'trim and fill' method. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc (2002) 1.76
Prehistoric contacts over the Straits of Gibraltar indicated by genetic analysis of Iberian Bronze Age cattle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.74
Comparison of the chicken and turkey genomes reveals a higher rate of nucleotide divergence on microchromosomes than macrochromosomes. Genome Res (2004) 1.73
The recombination landscape of the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata genome. Genome Res (2010) 1.72
Limited number of patrilines in horse domestication. Nat Genet (2004) 1.70
Relationships fade with time: a meta-analysis of temporal trends in publication in ecology and evolution. Proc Biol Sci (2002) 1.66
Deterministic mutation rate variation in the human genome. Genome Res (2002) 1.63
Microsatellite evolution inferred from human-chimpanzee genomic sequence alignments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 1.59
From wild wolf to domestic dog: gene expression changes in the brain. Brain Res Mol Brain Res (2004) 1.59
Darwinian aesthetics: sexual selection and the biology of beauty. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc (2003) 1.56
Facultative primary sex ratio variation: a lack of evidence in birds? Proc Biol Sci (2004) 1.51
Pleiotropic constraint hampers the resolution of sexual antagonism in vertebrate gene expression. Am Nat (2008) 1.51
Strong regional biases in nucleotide substitution in the chicken genome. Mol Biol Evol (2006) 1.50
The evolutionary causes and consequences of sex-biased gene expression. Nat Rev Genet (2013) 1.50
Fast-X on the Z: rapid evolution of sex-linked genes in birds. Genome Res (2007) 1.49
Ecological and genetic spatial structuring in the Canadian lynx. Nature (2003) 1.49
Effective population size and the Faster-X effect: empirical results and their interpretation. Evolution (2009) 1.48
Evidence for turnover of functional noncoding DNA in mammalian genome evolution. Genomics (2004) 1.45
Male-driven biased gene conversion governs the evolution of base composition in human alu repeats. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 1.44
Comparative genomics based on massive parallel transcriptome sequencing reveals patterns of substitution and selection across 10 bird species. Mol Ecol (2010) 1.44
Insertion-deletion polymorphisms (indels) as genetic markers in natural populations. BMC Genet (2008) 1.43
Genetic mapping in a natural population of collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis): conserved synteny but gene order rearrangements on the avian Z chromosome. Genetics (2006) 1.41
Evolution of the chicken Toll-like receptor gene family: a story of gene gain and gene loss. BMC Genomics (2008) 1.41
Analysis of recombination in Campylobacter jejuni from MLST population data. J Mol Evol (2005) 1.40
A novel method with improved power to detect recombination hotspots from polymorphism data reveals multiple hotspots in human genes. Am J Hum Genet (2005) 1.39
Reduced variation on the chicken Z chromosome. Genetics (2004) 1.39
To what extent do microsatellite markers reflect genome-wide genetic diversity in natural populations? Mol Ecol (2008) 1.37
Genomics of natural bird populations: a gene-based set of reference markers evenly spread across the avian genome. Mol Ecol (2007) 1.36
The chicken (Gallus gallus) Z chromosome contains at least three nonlinear evolutionary strata. Genetics (2008) 1.33
Low levels of nucleotide diversity in mammalian Y chromosomes. Mol Biol Evol (2003) 1.33
Heterozygosity-fitness correlations in zebra finches: microsatellite markers can be better than their reputation. Mol Ecol (2012) 1.33
Compositional evolution of noncoding DNA in the human and chimpanzee genomes. Mol Biol Evol (2003) 1.32
Coevolution in action: disruptive selection on egg colour in an avian brood parasite and its host. PLoS One (2010) 1.32
Next generation molecular ecology. Mol Ecol (2010) 1.30
The evolution of isochores: evidence from SNP frequency distributions. Genetics (2002) 1.29
A gene-based genetic linkage map of the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) reveals extensive synteny and gene-order conservation during 100 million years of avian evolution. Genetics (2008) 1.28
Genome-wide analysis of microsatellite polymorphism in chicken circumventing the ascertainment bias. Genome Res (2008) 1.27
Chicken W: a genetically uniform chromosome in a highly variable genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 1.26
Copy number variation, chromosome rearrangement, and their association with recombination during avian evolution. Genome Res (2010) 1.26
Bottlenecked but long-lived: high genetic diversity retained in white-tailed eagles upon recovery from population decline. Biol Lett (2006) 1.24
Genetic differentiation among sympatric cuckoo host races: males matter. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 1.24
Sex-linkage of sexually antagonistic genes is predicted by female, but not male, effects in birds. Evolution (2009) 1.22
The unique genomic properties of sex-biased genes: insights from avian microarray data. BMC Genomics (2008) 1.22
Heterogeneity in the rate and pattern of germline mutation at individual microsatellite loci. Nucleic Acids Res (2002) 1.22
Faster-Z evolution is predominantly due to genetic drift. Mol Biol Evol (2009) 1.20
Recombination drives vertebrate genome contraction. PLoS Genet (2012) 1.20
Fixation biases affecting human SNPs. Trends Genet (2004) 1.19
Dynamic evolution of base composition: causes and consequences in avian phylogenomics. Mol Biol Evol (2011) 1.17
Ontogenetic complexity of sexual dimorphism and sex-specific selection. Mol Biol Evol (2010) 1.16
Climate change effects on migration phenology may mismatch brood parasitic cuckoos and their hosts. Biol Lett (2009) 1.16
Nonlinear dynamics of nonsynonymous (dN) and synonymous (dS) substitution rates affects inference of selection. Genome Biol Evol (2009) 1.15
Levels of linkage disequilibrium in a wild bird population. Biol Lett (2006) 1.15
Speciation in Ficedula flycatchers. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2010) 1.14
Pheomelanin-based plumage coloration predicts survival rates in birds. Physiol Biochem Zool (2013) 1.14
The genomic landscape of short insertion and deletion polymorphisms in the chicken (Gallus gallus) Genome: a high frequency of deletions in tandem duplicates. Genetics (2007) 1.13
Population regulation by habitat heterogeneity or individual adjustment? J Anim Ecol (2011) 1.12
Fast accumulation of nonsynonymous mutations on the female-specific W chromosome in birds. J Mol Evol (2005) 1.12
Molecular evolution of genes in avian genomes. Genome Biol (2010) 1.12
Diversity, loss, and gain of malaria parasites in a globally invasive bird. PLoS One (2011) 1.11
A high-density linkage map enables a second-generation collared flycatcher genome assembly and reveals the patterns of avian recombination rate variation and chromosomal evolution. Mol Ecol (2014) 1.11
Y chromosome conserved anchored tagged sequences (YCATS) for the analysis of mammalian male-specific DNA. Mol Ecol (2003) 1.11
Nonrandom distribution of genes with sex-biased expression in the chicken genome. Evolution (2006) 1.09
Gene expression, synteny, and local similarity in human noncoding mutation rates. Mol Biol Evol (2004) 1.09
Effects of carotenoid availability during laying on reproduction in the blue tit. Oecologia (2005) 1.09
Gene conversion drives the evolution of HINTW, an ampliconic gene on the female-specific avian W chromosome. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 1.08
Insertion events of CR1 retrotransposable elements elucidate the phylogenetic branching order in galliform birds. Mol Biol Evol (2006) 1.07
Are sex-biased genes more dispensable? Biol Lett (2009) 1.07
W chromosome expression responds to female-specific selection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.05
Effects of sample size and intraspecific variation in phylogenetic comparative studies: a meta-analytic review. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc (2010) 1.05
Natural selection in avian protein-coding genes expressed in brain. Mol Ecol (2008) 1.03
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Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data. PLoS Genet (2013) 1.03
Substitution rate variation at human CpG sites correlates with non-CpG divergence, methylation level and GC content. Genome Biol (2011) 1.01
MHC class II genes in European wolves: a comparison with dogs. Immunogenetics (2002) 1.01
Rapid evolution of female-biased, but not male-biased, genes expressed in the avian brain. Mol Biol Evol (2007) 1.00
Bird population declines due to radiation exposure at Chernobyl are stronger in species with pheomelanin-based coloration. Oecologia (2010) 0.98
Twisted signatures of GC-biased gene conversion embedded in an evolutionary stable karyotype. Mol Biol Evol (2013) 0.97
Parallel divergence and degradation of the avian W sex chromosome. Trends Ecol Evol (2007) 0.97
Vane emargination of outer tail feathers improves flight manoeuvrability in streamerless hirundines, Hirundinidae. Proc Biol Sci (2004) 0.96
Transcriptome sequencing reveals the character of incomplete dosage compensation across multiple tissues in flycatchers. Genome Biol Evol (2013) 0.96
A guide to the genomics of ecological speciation in natural animal populations. Ecol Lett (2010) 0.95
QTL linkage mapping of zebra finch beak color shows an oligogenic control of a sexually selected trait. Evolution (2011) 0.94