Beyond the linear: evolution of branched regulatory genetic pathways and pathways with negative feedback
Adam Porter, Norman A. Johnson, Gregory Gibby; University of Massachusetts Amherst

Embedded molecular switches, anti-cancer selection, and effects on ontogenetic rates: an hypothesis of developmental constraint on morphogenesis and evolution
Kathryn D Kavanagh, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Genetic assimilation can be a consequence of canalization
 Joanna Masel; Stanford University  

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Mortality interactions and the evolutionary theory of senescence
Paul David Williams, Troy Day; University of Toronto

Phylogenetic analysis of developmental sequences
Susanne Schulmeister, Ward C. Wheeler; American Museum of Natural History

Adaptation at specific loci. VII. Natural selection, dispersal and the diversity of molecular functional variation patterns among butterfly species complexes (Colias: Lepidoptera, Pieridae )
Christopher West Wheat, W. B. Watt, E. H. Meyer, J. F. Martin; Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology

Ancestral polymorphisms in genetic markers obscure detection of evolutionarily distinct populations in the endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow
H. Lisle Gibbs, N. Bulgin, P. Vickery, A. Baker; Ohio State University

Functional genomics of host shift in Drosophila melanogster
 Laura Diane Carsten, T. Watts, G. Bosco, and T. A. Markow; University of Arizona

Microsatellites versus mitochondria: oceanography, demography, and spatial patterns of genetic structure in the acorn barnacle Balanus glandula
Rob John Toonen, John P. Wares, Rick Grosberg; University of California, Davis

Numerical dynamics and adaptation to water chemistry in the least killifish, Heterandriaf formosa
Joseph Travis, Jeff Leips; Florida State University

Patterns of gene flow in a native phytophagous insect following the introduction of invasive plant species
Jeffrey Catlin Oliver; University of Arizona

Population structure inferred from neutral molecular markers does not coincide with ecotypic variation in a garter snake
Mollie Kim Manier; Oregon State University

Size clines in native and invading populations of Drosophila subobscura: correlations with temperature
George W. Gilchrist, Raymond B. Huey; The College of William and Mary

Ecological consequences of gene flow in an intertidal alga
Cynthia Gail Hays; University of California, Santa Cruz

Ecological genetics of the invasive barbed goatgrass (Aegilops triuncialis) across serpentine soil gradients
John K. McKay, John D. Gerlach, Kevin J. Rice; University of California, Davis

Evolution in a community context: non-intuitive agents of selection on a flower color polymorphism
Sharon Y. Strauss, Rebecca Irwin; University of California, Davis

Evolutionary ecology of Californian serpentine sunflower
Julianno Bergoch Sambatti; University of California, Davis

Experimental studies of adaptation in Clarkia: fitness variation across a subspecies border
Monica A. Geber, Vince Eckhart; Cornell University

Genetic diversity and fine scale population structure of the saltmarsh perennial Borrichia frutescens
Christina L. Richards, James L. Hamrick, Lisa A. Donovan; University of Georgia

Genetic diversity in Typha from control and radioactively contaminated areas in Ukraine
Olga Vasylivna Tsyusko, Mike H. Smith, Taras K. Oleksyk, Travis C. Glenn; University of Georgia                               

Negative genetic correlations between flower size and number: implications for the evolution of floral displays in Lobelia
Christina Marie Caruso; University of Guelph

Natural selection on extrafloral nectar production in Chamaecrista fasciculata: the costs and benefits of a mutualistic trait
Matt T. Rutter; University of Maryland, College Park

Phylogenetic patterns of herbivore host choice in a tropical rainforest community             
George D. Weiblen; University of Minnesota

Potential for character state evolution in response to an indirect ecological effect
Philip Astles, Richard Preziosi; University of Manchester

Simultaneous evolution of defense and competition in plants: induced switching between resistance and tolerance
David Henry Siemens, Tessa Lynn Jones; Black Hills State University

The evolution of inquilinism and host-plant use in Tamalia gall aphids
Donald G. Miller, Bernard J. Crespi; California State University, Chico

The interplay of geography and specificity in lichen symbioses
Rebecca Yahr, Paula T. DePriest, Rytas J. Vilgalys; Duke University

An experimental evaluation of four methods for identifying animal mitochondrial tRNAs
Stacia K. Wyman, Jeffrey Lynn Boore; DOE Joint Genome Institute, University of California, Berkeley

Integrating proteomic datasets: a bayesian approach
Michael Aaron Gilchrist, A. Wagner, L. A. Salter; University of New Mexico

Comparative analysis of primate transcriptomes
Hurng-Yi Wang, Huan-Chieh Chien; National Taiwan Normal University

Estimating the standard error and confidence interval of measures of relatedness using resampling techniques
Katalin Csillery, Allen J. Moore, Penelope F. Kukuk; University of Manchester

Geography and gene expression: AFLP and macroarray approaches to a house finch-mycoplasma host-parasite interaction
Scott V. Edwards, Zhenshan Wang, Kristy Farmer, Geoffrey Hill, Allan J. Baker; University of Washington

Modularity in genomic regulatory networks
Junhyong Kim, Paul Magwene; University of Pennsylvania

Mutational variance and the rates of gene expression evolution in Drosophila melanogaster
Junhyong Kim, David Houle, Scott Alan Rifkin, Kevin P. White; University of Pennsylvania

Complex hybrid origins of a genetically-based system of caste determination in harvester ants
Sara Helms Cahan, Laurent Keller; University of Lausanne

Introgressive hybridization between two species of top minnows (Fundulus notatus and F. olivaceus) in Southern Illinois
Andrew M. Ravanelli, David D. Duvernell; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Microsatellite analysis of a hybrid zone in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)
Michael James Braun, Tamaki Yuri; Smithsonian Institution

Mosaic introgression creates population structure in Caribbean staghorn corals
Steve Verner Vollmer, Steve Palumbi; Harvard University

Temporal stability at a hybrid zone in the Ensatina ring species complex
David B. Wake, Joao Alexandrino, Craig Moritz; University of California, Berkeley

Selection in a tiger salamander hybrid zone
Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick, H. Bradley Shaffer, Angela M. Picco, S. Randal Voss; University of California, Davis

Rapid evolution and positive selection of the Drosophila hybrid incompatibility gene hybrid male rescue
Daniel A. Barbash, Philip Awadalla, Aaron M. Tarone, Dominic F. Siino, John Roote; University of California, Davis

Phylogenetic supertrees: new uses for old phylogenies
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds; Technical University of Munich, Germany

Some desiderata for meta-analytical supertrees
Mark Wilkinson, Natural History Museum, England; Joseph L. Thorley, Fisheries Research Service, England; Davide Pisani, Pennsylvania State University; Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Universit de Montral, Canada; James O. McInerney, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Constructing supertrees with divergence time estimates
David Bryant, McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University; Charles Semple, Biomathematics Research Centre, University of  Canterbury; Mike Steel, Biomathematics Research Centre, University of Canterbury

The cladistics of matrix representation with parsimony analysis
Harold N. Bryant, Royal Saskatchewan Museum

Born to run: the evolution of an invasive phenotype in a perennial plant
Amy C. Blair, Lorne Wolfe; Georgia Southern University

Evolution of the monosaccharide transporter gene family in land plants: Phylogenetic analysis in a non-seed vascular plant, Ceratopteris richardii
Deborah A. Johnson, Jeffrey P. Hill, Laurens H. Smith, Jr.; Idaho State University

Evolution of woodland taxa from chasmophytic ancestors taxonomy and life-trait evolution in the European endemic Phyteuma (Campanulaceae)
Gerald M. Schneeweiss, Peter Schoenswetter, Andreas Tribsch; Institute of Botany, University of Vienna

Fitness, life-history, and the evolution of complexity in Volvocalean green algae         
Cristian A. Solari, Aurora M. Nedelcu, Richard E. Michod; University of Arizona

Genetic niche-hiking: an alternative explanation for the evolution of flammability
Dylan Walker Schwilk, Ben Kerr; Stanford University

Latitudinal clines in Arabidopsis life history traits
John R. Stinchcombe, Johanna Schmitt; Brown University

A molecular test of reinforcement: accelerated evolution of a gamete recognition protein in a hybridizing Mytilus population
Stevan Anthony Springer, Bernard J. Crespi; Simon Fraser University

Adaptive radiation of Galpagos Bulimulidae: diversification at a snail pace?
Christine Parent, B.J. Crespi; Simon Fraser University

Dissolving the species problem
Massimo Pigliucci; University of Tennessee

Ecological and intrinsic incompatibilities jointly promote the speciation process in lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) as revealed by linkage mapping and QTL analyses
Sean Michael Rogers, Louis Bernatchez; Laval University

Ecological speciation in the sea? Mating system variation correlated with environmental gradients in the tropical coral Favia fragum
David B. Carlon; University of California, Davis

Over-winter mortality selection in Arabidopsis thaliana
Tonia M. Korves, Bhoomika Singh, Nannette Reese, Michael Purugganan, Johanna Schmitt; Brown University

Reconstructing the hybrid origins of Helianthus deserticola: selection experiments on the desert floor
Nolan Coburn Kane; Indiana University

The ecology and evolution of distribution patterns in a vernal pool annual plant
Nancy C. Emery, Kevin Rice, Maureen Stanton; University of California, Davis

Variation in the fine scale genetic structure of a forest understory species, Trillium cuneatum
James L. Hamrick, Eva Bercikova Gonzales; University of Georgia

Temporal variation in effective pollen structure in Mimosa
Andrew Irwin, James Hamrick, Mary Jo Godt; University of Georgia

Phenotypic plasticity in Mimulus guttatus: are serpentine and drought tolerance related?
Courtney J. Murren, Amanda Alice Gibson, Michele R. Dudash; University of Maryland

Sexual conflict and speciation: postmating interactions between African and Non-African Drosophila melanogaster
Tami Marie Panhuis, Len Nunney; University of California, Riverside

Simultaneous host shift and hybridizationthe fast way to sympatric speciation?
Dietmar Schwarz, Bruce A. McPheron; Pennsylvania State University

Speciation in Carlia skinks from the Australian wet tropics rainforest: inference of demographic history from multiple loci
Gaynor Dolman, Craig Moritz; University of Queens

The adaptive surface for crossbills: divergent selection drives the radiation of crossbills
Craig W. Benkman; New Mexico State University

The effects of male pregnancy on the potential for sympatric speciation in seahorses
Adam Gregory Jones, C. Kvarnemo, G. I. Moore, D. Walker, J. C. Avise; Georgia Institute of Technology

Nucleotide diversity in pine
Santiago Csar Gonzlez-Martnez, Garth Brown, Elhan Ersoz, Robert Kuntz, Geoff Gill, David Neale; University of California, Davis

Patterns in protein structure diversity determined by the folding process
Junhyong Kim, Julia Hartling; University of Pennsylvania

Population genetic variation in genome-wide gene expression
Jeffrey P. Townsend, Duccio Cavalieri, Daniel Hartl; University of California, Berkeley

RNA-protein coevolutionary diversity of tRNA identity within bacteria
David H. Ardell, Siv G. E. Andersson; Uppsala University

When genes go bad: base composition heterogeneity at the avian MC3R locus
George F. Barrowclough, Jeff G. Groth; American Museum Natural History

Cytonuclear disequilibrium in the Chrysochus hybrid zone
Kirsten Jo Monsen, Barb Honchak, Stefanie Locke, Merrill Peterson; Western Washington University

The cost of white flowers: pleiotropy and the evolution of floral color
L. C. Coberly, M. D. Rausher; University of Idaho

Evolution of ecophysiological traits in a species of hybrid origin, Helianthus anomalus
Fulco Ludwig, David Rosenthal, Loren Rieseberg, Lisa Donovan; University of Georgia

Hybrid fitness and the role of maternal and paternal effects in mulberry (Morus L.)
Kevin S. Burgess, Brian C. Husband; University of Guelph

 Hybridization among Juglans hindsii and associated introduced species in Northern California riparian forests.
P. K. Kirk, K. A. Schierenbeck, G. Wolfe, B. Baldwin, D. Potter; California State University, Chico

Wild radish in California: stabilized introgression
Subray G. Hegde, John D. Nason, Janet Clegg, Norman C. Ellstrand; University of California, Riverside

Supertree versus supermatrix
John Gatesy; University of California, Riverside

Supertree methods for solving hard optimization problems
Tandy Warnow, University of Texas at Austin; Bernard Moret, University of New Mexico; Tiffani Williams, University of New Mexico; Usman Roshan, University of Texas at Austin

Detecting diversification rate variation in supertrees
Brian R. Moore, Yale University; Kai M.A. Chan, Princeton University; Michael J. Donoghue, Yale University

Consequences of cytonuclear Interactions for plant hybrid zone expansion
Jennifer M. Rhode, Mitch Cruzan; Portland State University

Differential gene expression in the male reproductive tract associated with reproductive success in Drosophila melanogaster        
Jenny M. Drnevich, Lei Liu, Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Kimberly Hughes; University of Illinois

Duplications of long wavelength-sensitive rhodopsins in Lepidoptera: utility of an orthologous gene in recovering nymphalid subfamilial relationships    
 Adriana D. Briscoe, Andrew Van Zandt Brower; University of California, Irvine

Effect of population size on fitness correlates in Caenorhabditis elegans: implications for the distribution of mutational effects
Suzanne Estes, Patrick C. Phillips, Dee R. Denver, W. Kelley Thomas, Michael Lynch; Oregon State University

Effects of PGI genotype and thermal variation on reproductive success in a willow beetle
Robin M. Stoneking, Nathan E. Rank, Elizabeth Dahlhoff; Sonoma State University

Evolution of a recently duplicated phytochrome gene pair in Arabidopsis ecotypes
Kim S. McBreen, Sarah Mathews; University of Missouri Columbia

Evolution of gender associated mitochondrial DNA in freshwater bivalves
Jason Paul Curole, Thomas Kocher; Bodega Marine Lab, University of California

A case study of gypsophilic plant evolution in the Chihuahuan Desert: Tiquilia subg. Eddya
Robert K. Jansen, Michael James Moore; Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin

A morphological enigma: a naked Panicum in the bristly grasses
Andrew N. Doust, Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Emilie C. Bess; University of MissouriSt. Louis

A phylogeny of the genus Phalaenopsis (Orchidaceae) using nuclear and chloroplast markers with implications for the study of reticulate evolution
Joanna Padolina, Craig R. Linder, Tandy Warnow, Beryl Simpson; University of Texas at Austin

Better phylogenetic resolution in the genus Helianthus (Asteraceae) using ETS sequence data
Ruth E. Timme, Randy Linder, Tandy Warnow, Beryl Simpson; University of Texas at Austin

Classification and floral evolution within Zaluzianskya (Scrophulariaceae s.s., Tribe Manuleae); preliminary insights from multiple DNA data sets
Mark E. Mort, Jenny Kay Archibald, Andrea Wolfe; University of Kansas

Complex patterns of evolution of C4 photosynthesis in the panicoid grasses: implications of nuclear and cpDNA phylogenies
Janet C. Barber, Liliana M. Giussani, Sandra S. Aliscioni, Elizabeth A. Kellogg; Saint Louis University

Deep vascular plant phylogeny: Inferences from an RNA polymerase subunit gene (RPB2)
Jessica M. Zgurski, Benjamin Hall, Betty McConaughy, Jie Luo, Sean Graham; University of Alberta

Are evolutionary changes concentrated in directions of high phenotypic variance? A test using the deep-sea ostracode fossil record
Gene Hunt; University of Chicago

Cranial developmental integration in four species of primates
Jessica Hemmerick Hunt; Yale University

Phylogenetics, morphometrics and biomechanics: functional implications of skull shape change
Mark W. Westneat, Barry Chernoff; Field Museum

Dog dogma: heterochronic patterns in the cranial morphology of Canis familiaris
Abby Grace Drake; University of Massachusetts