Published in Mol Biol Evol on March 16, 2005
The influence of recombination on human genetic diversity. PLoS Genet (2006) 4.04
The impact of recombination on nucleotide substitutions in the human genome. PLoS Genet (2008) 3.16
The genome-wide determinants of human and chimpanzee microsatellite evolution. Genome Res (2007) 2.60
Hotspots of biased nucleotide substitutions in human genes. PLoS Biol (2009) 1.89
Biased clustered substitutions in the human genome: the footprints of male-driven biased gene conversion. Genome Res (2007) 1.72
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Death of PRDM9 coincides with stabilization of the recombination landscape in the dog genome. Genome Res (2011) 1.62
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Contrasting GC-content dynamics across 33 mammalian genomes: relationship with life-history traits and chromosome sizes. Genome Res (2010) 1.52
Genomic selective constraints in murid noncoding DNA. PLoS Genet (2006) 1.46
Ongoing GC-biased evolution is widespread in the human genome and enriched near recombination hot spots. Genome Biol Evol (2011) 1.36
A macaque's-eye view of human insertions and deletions: differences in mechanisms. PLoS Comput Biol (2007) 1.31
Detecting positive selection within genomes: the problem of biased gene conversion. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2010) 1.25
The AZFc region of the Y chromosome: at the crossroads between genetic diversity and male infertility. Hum Reprod Update (2010) 1.24
Dynamic evolution of base composition: causes and consequences in avian phylogenomics. Mol Biol Evol (2011) 1.17
A genome-wide screen for noncoding elements important in primate evolution. BMC Evol Biol (2008) 1.12
Both selective and neutral processes drive GC content evolution in the human genome. BMC Evol Biol (2008) 1.02
Substitution patterns are GC-biased in divergent sequences across the metazoans. Genome Biol Evol (2011) 0.99
Evidence for widespread reticulate evolution within human duplicons. Am J Hum Genet (2005) 0.98
Biased distributions and decay of long interspersed nuclear elements in the chicken genome. Genetics (2007) 0.95
GC content and recombination: reassessing the causal effects for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome. Genetics (2009) 0.94
GC content evolution of the human and mouse genomes: insights from the study of processed pseudogenes in regions of different recombination rates. J Mol Evol (2006) 0.93
Evidence that replication-associated mutation alone does not explain between-chromosome differences in substitution rates. Genome Biol Evol (2009) 0.88
Partial correlation analysis indicates causal relationships between GC-content, exon density and recombination rate in the human genome. BMC Bioinformatics (2009) 0.87
Evidence for GC-biased gene conversion as a driver of between-lineage differences in avian base composition. Genome Biol (2014) 0.86
Substitution patterns are under different influences in primates and rodents. Genome Biol Evol (2011) 0.83
The sex-specific impact of meiotic recombination on nucleotide composition. Genome Biol Evol (2012) 0.82
The rate, not the spectrum, of base pair substitutions changes at a GC-content transition in the human NF1 gene region: implications for the evolution of the mammalian genome structure. Genetics (2006) 0.81
The tendency to recreate ancestral CG dinucleotides in the human genome. BMC Evol Biol (2011) 0.80
Recombination-associated sequence homogenization of neighboring Alu elements: signature of nonallelic gene conversion. Mol Biol Evol (2010) 0.79
Biased gene conversion and GC-content evolution in the coding sequences of reptiles and vertebrates. Genome Biol Evol (2014) 0.78
Late replicating domains are highly recombining in females but have low male recombination rates: implications for isochore evolution. PLoS One (2011) 0.78
Segmenting the human genome based on states of neutral genetic divergence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 0.76
Statistical Methods for Identifying Sequence Motifs Affecting Point Mutations. Genetics (2016) 0.75
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
The impact of recombination on nucleotide substitutions in the human genome. PLoS Genet (2008) 3.16
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
Faced with inequality: chicken do not have a general dosage compensation of sex-linked genes. BMC Biol (2007) 2.29
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
Evolutionary strata on the chicken Z chromosome: implications for sex chromosome evolution. Genetics (2004) 1.80
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
Preventing dangerous nonsense: selection for robustness to transcriptional error in human genes. PLoS Genet (2011) 1.63
Deterministic mutation rate variation in the human genome. Genome Res (2002) 1.63
Genomic heterogeneity of background substitutional patterns in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2004) 1.61
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
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
Evidence for turnover of functional noncoding DNA in mammalian genome evolution. Genomics (2004) 1.45
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
Transcription induces strand-specific mutations at the 5' end of human genes. Genome Res (2008) 1.41
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
Analysis of recombination in Campylobacter jejuni from MLST population data. J Mol Evol (2005) 1.40
Reduced variation on the chicken Z chromosome. Genetics (2004) 1.39
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
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
Probing the SELEX process with next-generation sequencing. PLoS One (2011) 1.34
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
Next generation molecular ecology. Mol Ecol (2010) 1.30
The evolution of isochores: evidence from SNP frequency distributions. Genetics (2002) 1.29
Single-cell based high-throughput sequencing of full-length immunoglobulin heavy and light chain genes. Eur J Immunol (2013) 1.28
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
The majority of recent short DNA insertions in the human genome are tandem duplications. Mol Biol Evol (2007) 1.25
Bottlenecked but long-lived: high genetic diversity retained in white-tailed eagles upon recovery from population decline. Biol Lett (2006) 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
Methylation and deamination of CpGs generate p53-binding sites on a genomic scale. Trends Genet (2008) 1.17
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
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
Life history and the male mutation bias. Evolution (2003) 1.14
Speciation in Ficedula flycatchers. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2010) 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
Molecular evolution of genes in avian genomes. Genome Biol (2010) 1.12
Fast accumulation of nonsynonymous mutations on the female-specific W chromosome in birds. J Mol Evol (2005) 1.12
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
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
Natural selection in avian protein-coding genes expressed in brain. Mol Ecol (2008) 1.03
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
Solvable sequence evolution models and genomic correlations. Phys Rev Lett (2005) 0.99
Retinoic acid receptor alpha is associated with tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer. Nat Commun (2013) 0.99
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
Transcriptome sequencing reveals the character of incomplete dosage compensation across multiple tissues in flycatchers. Genome Biol Evol (2013) 0.96
Strong evidence for lineage and sequence specificity of substitution rates and patterns in Drosophila. Mol Biol Evol (2009) 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
A calibrated diversity assay for nucleic acid libraries using DiStRO--a Diversity Standard of Random Oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Res (2009) 0.94
A novel method distinguishes between mutation rates and fixation biases in patterns of single-nucleotide substitution. J Mol Evol (2005) 0.93
Quantification of adaptive evolution of genes expressed in avian brain and the population size effect on the efficacy of selection. Mol Biol Evol (2009) 0.93