Published in Trends Genet on April 01, 2005
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Male-biased mutation rate and divergence in autosomal, z-linked and w-linked introns of chicken and Turkey. Mol Biol Evol (2004) 2.01
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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
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
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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
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
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
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Heterozygosity-fitness correlations in zebra finches: microsatellite markers can be better than their reputation. Mol Ecol (2012) 1.33
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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
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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
Recombination drives vertebrate genome contraction. PLoS Genet (2012) 1.20
Faster-Z evolution is predominantly due to genetic drift. Mol Biol Evol (2009) 1.20
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Ontogenetic complexity of sexual dimorphism and sex-specific selection. Mol Biol Evol (2010) 1.16
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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
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
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
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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
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MHC class II genes in European wolves: a comparison with dogs. Immunogenetics (2002) 1.01
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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
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
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
A low rate of simultaneous double-nucleotide mutations in primates. Mol Biol Evol (2003) 0.93
Estimation of linkage disequilibrium and interspecific gene flow in Ficedula flycatchers by a newly developed 50k single-nucleotide polymorphism array. Mol Ecol Resour (2014) 0.93
Ancient DNA reveals traces of Iberian Neolithic and Bronze Age lineages in modern Iberian horses. Mol Ecol (2009) 0.91
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Individual variation in microsatellite mutation rate in barn swallows. Mutat Res (2004) 0.90
Inferring the demographic history of European Ficedula flycatcher populations. BMC Evol Biol (2013) 0.89
Kr/Kc but not dN/dS correlates positively with body mass in birds, raising implications for inferring lineage-specific selection. Genome Biol (2014) 0.89
Microsatellite genotyping of DNA isolated from claws left on tanned carnivore hides. Int J Legal Med (2005) 0.89
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The relationship between microsatellite polymorphism and recombination hot spots in the human genome. Mol Biol Evol (2008) 0.88
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Lack of dosage compensation accompanies the arrested stage of sex chromosome evolution in ostriches. Mol Biol Evol (2013) 0.87
A high-density scan of the Z chromosome in Ficedula flycatchers reveals candidate loci for diversifying selection. Evolution (2010) 0.87
Is the rate of insertion and deletion mutation male biased?: Molecular evolutionary analysis of avian and primate sex chromosome sequences. Genetics (2003) 0.86
Evidence for GC-biased gene conversion as a driver of between-lineage differences in avian base composition. Genome Biol (2014) 0.86
Positive diversifying selection in avian Mx genes. Immunogenetics (2008) 0.86
Trisomy and triploidy are sources of embryo mortality in the zebra finch. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 0.85
Population genomics of the inbred Scandinavian wolf. Mol Ecol (2009) 0.84
Genome-wide analysis in chicken reveals that local levels of genetic diversity are mainly governed by the rate of recombination. BMC Genomics (2013) 0.84
High levels of gene expression explain the strong evolutionary constraint of mitochondrial protein-coding genes. Mol Biol Evol (2012) 0.84
QTL linkage mapping of wing length in zebra finch using genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms markers. Mol Ecol (2011) 0.83
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No evidence for Z-chromosome rearrangements between the pied flycatcher and the collared flycatcher as judged by gene-based comparative genetic maps. Mol Ecol (2010) 0.83