Tuesday, October 25, 2005
From The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change:
Some have said than in the first 5 years of the allozyme assay era more data on the the genetic structure of populations was accumulated than had been in the previous 100 years of pre-molecular experiments and observations. Anyway, evolutionary genetics is still a work in progress, and I don't have much time to comment right now, but I thought I'd point you to this paper in PLOS Genetics, The Evolutionary Value of Recombination Is Constrained by Genome Modularity. Since biology is the science of exception riddled generalizations, take the paper with a grain of salt. What is applicable on the microorganismic level might not be applicable on the multicelluar scale (i.e., selfing and asexuality are long term fitness optimizing for example). Additionally, I also suggest you check out the most recent issue of issue of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, it is all about adaptive dynamics. Related: Through the Rugged Roads of Gene Land. |