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Examples include the search for mates, economic partnerships, or any other long-term ties where the choice to interact involves two parties. Surprisingly, however, previous theoretical work on mutual choice problems focuses on finding equilibrium solutions, while ignoring the evolutionary dynamics of decisions. Empirically, this may be of high importance, as some equilibrium solutions can never be reached unless the population undergoes radical changes and a sufficient number of individuals change their decisions simultaneously. To address this question, we apply a mutual choice sequential search problem in an evolutionary game-theoretical model that allows one to find solutions that are favored by evolution. As an example, we study the influence of sequential search on the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation. For this, we focus on the classic snowdrift game and the prisoner’s dilemma game.","lang":"eng"}],"volume":6,"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:53:26Z","article_type":"original"},{"issue":"7","oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:45:12Z","pubrep_id":"458","status":"public","publication_status":"published","project":[{"_id":"25B67606-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"Evolutionary rescue"}],"day":"01","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"}],"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","doi":"10.1007/s00285-014-0802-y","oa_version":"Published Version","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"By hybridization and backcrossing, alleles can surmount species boundaries and be incorporated into the genome of a related species. This introgression of genes is of particular evolutionary relevance if it involves the transfer of adaptations between populations. However, any beneficial allele will typically be associated with other alien alleles that are often deleterious and hamper the introgression process. In order to describe the introgression of an adaptive allele, we set up a stochastic model with an explicit genetic makeup of linked and unlinked deleterious alleles. Based on the theory of reducible multitype branching processes, we derive a recursive expression for the establishment probability of the beneficial allele after a single hybridization event. We furthermore study the probability that slightly deleterious alleles hitchhike to fixation. The key to the analysis is a split of the process into a stochastic phase in which the advantageous alleles establishes and a deterministic phase in which it sweeps to fixation. We thereafter apply the theory to a set of biologically relevant scenarios such as introgression in the presence of many unlinked or few closely linked deleterious alleles. A comparison to computer simulations shows that the approximations work well over a large parameter range."}],"volume":70,"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:53:32Z","external_id":{"isi":["000354196800003"]},"tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"scopus_import":"1","intvolume":"        70","acknowledgement":"This work was made possible with financial support by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Research Unit 1078 Natural selection in structured populations, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) via funding for the Vienna Graduate School for Population Genetics, and by a “For Women in Science” fellowship (L’Oréal Österreich in cooperation with the Austrian Commission for UNESCO and the Austrian Academy of Sciences with financial support from the Federal Ministry for Science and Research Austria).","year":"2015","_id":"1699","date_updated":"2025-09-23T07:31:45Z","page":"1523 - 1580","citation":{"ieee":"H. 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A major impediment to the success of rebuilding complex vegetation communities is having regular access to sufficient quantities of high-quality seed. Seed-production areas (SPAs) can help generate this seed, but these must be underpinned by a broad genetic base to maximise the evolutionary potential of restored populations. However, genetic bottlenecks can occur at the collection, establishment and production stages in SPAs, requiring genetic evaluation. This is especially relevant for species that may take many years before a return on SPA investment is realised. Two recently established yellow box (Eucalyptus melliodora A.Cunn. ex Schauer, Myrtaceae) SPAs were evaluated to determine whether genetic bottlenecks had occurred between seed collection and SPA establishment. No evidence was found to suggest that a significant loss of genetic diversity had occurred at this stage, although there was a significant difference in diversity between the two SPAs. Complex population genetic structure was also observed in the seed used to source the SPAs, with up to eight groups identified. Plant survival in the SPAs was influenced by seed collection location but not by SPA location and was not associated with genetic diversity. There were also no associations between genetic diversity and plant growth. These data highlighted the importance of chance events when establishing SPAs and indicated that the two yellow box SPAs are likely to provide genetically diverse seed sources for future restoration projects, especially by pooling seed from both SPAs.","lang":"eng"}],"scopus_import":"1","external_id":{"isi":["000363276500009"]},"intvolume":"        63","issue":"5","publication_status":"published","status":"public","doi":"10.1071/BT15023","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"}],"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","day":"26","isi":1,"publist_id":"5434","title":"An evaluation of the genetic structure of seed sources and the maintenance of genetic diversity during establishment of two yellow box (Eucalyptus melliodora) seed-production areas","author":[{"full_name":"Broadhurst, Linda","first_name":"Linda","last_name":"Broadhurst"},{"last_name":"Fifield","first_name":"Graham","full_name":"Fifield, Graham"},{"full_name":"Vanzella, Bindi","last_name":"Vanzella","first_name":"Bindi"},{"full_name":"Pickup, Melinda","id":"2C78037E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Melinda","last_name":"Pickup","orcid":"0000-0001-6118-0541"}],"date_published":"2015-05-26T00:00:00Z","type":"journal_article","publication":"Australian Journal of Botany","article_processing_charge":"No","quality_controlled":"1","year":"2015","publisher":"CSIRO","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"month":"05","page":"455 - 466","_id":"1703","citation":{"apa":"Broadhurst, L., Fifield, G., Vanzella, B., &#38; Pickup, M. 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Public Library of Science, 2015. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005639\">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005639</a>."},"file":[{"content_type":"application/pdf","relation":"main_file","access_level":"open_access","date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:45:10Z","file_name":"IST-2016-463-v1+1_journal.pgen.1005639.pdf","file_size":2580778,"checksum":"a4e72fca5ccf40ddacf4d08c8e46b554","date_created":"2018-12-12T10:07:58Z","file_id":"4657","creator":"system"}],"isi":1,"publist_id":"5483","ec_funded":1,"title":"Dynamics of transcription factor binding site evolution","author":[{"full_name":"Tugrul, Murat","last_name":"Tugrul","id":"37C323C6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Murat","orcid":"0000-0002-8523-0758"},{"full_name":"Paixao, Tiago","last_name":"Paixao","first_name":"Tiago","id":"2C5658E6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0003-2361-3953"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-8548-5240","full_name":"Barton, Nicholas H","last_name":"Barton","first_name":"Nicholas H","id":"4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-6699-1455","full_name":"Tkacik, Gasper","last_name":"Tkacik","id":"3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Gasper"}],"date_published":"2015-11-06T00:00:00Z","has_accepted_license":"1","type":"journal_article","publication":"PLoS Genetics","ddc":["576"],"article_processing_charge":"No","quality_controlled":"1","issue":"11","pubrep_id":"463","file_date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:45:10Z","oa":1,"publication_status":"published","status":"public","doi":"10.1371/journal.pgen.1005639","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"},{"_id":"CaGu"},{"_id":"GaTk"}],"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","day":"06","project":[{"name":"Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation","grant_number":"250152","_id":"25B07788-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"FP7"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","volume":11,"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:53:21Z","related_material":{"record":[{"id":"9712","relation":"research_data","status":"public"},{"status":"public","relation":"dissertation_contains","id":"1131"}]},"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Evolution of gene regulation is crucial for our understanding of the phenotypic differences between species, populations and individuals. Sequence-specific binding of transcription factors to the regulatory regions on the DNA is a key regulatory mechanism that determines gene expression and hence heritable phenotypic variation. We use a biophysical model for directional selection on gene expression to estimate the rates of gain and loss of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) in finite populations under both point and insertion/deletion mutations. Our results show that these rates are typically slow for a single TFBS in an isolated DNA region, unless the selection is extremely strong. These rates decrease drastically with increasing TFBS length or increasingly specific protein-DNA interactions, making the evolution of sites longer than ∼ 10 bp unlikely on typical eukaryotic speciation timescales. Similarly, evolution converges to the stationary distribution of binding sequences very slowly, making the equilibrium assumption questionable. The availability of longer regulatory sequences in which multiple binding sites can evolve simultaneously, the presence of “pre-sites” or partially decayed old sites in the initial sequence, and biophysical cooperativity between transcription factors, can all facilitate gain of TFBS and reconcile theoretical calculations with timescales inferred from comparative genomics."}],"scopus_import":"1","external_id":{"isi":["000366179000022"]},"tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"intvolume":"        11"},{"day":"04","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"},{"_id":"GaTk"}],"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032701","status":"public","publication_status":"published","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0430"}],"oa":1,"issue":"3","intvolume":"        89","external_id":{"isi":["000332274100002"],"arxiv":["1402.0430"]},"scopus_import":"1","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Biopolymer length regulation is a complex process that involves a large number of biological, chemical, and physical subprocesses acting simultaneously across multiple spatial and temporal scales. An illustrative example important for genomic stability is the length regulation of telomeres - nucleoprotein structures at the ends of linear chromosomes consisting of tandemly repeated DNA sequences and a specialized set of proteins. Maintenance of telomeres is often facilitated by the enzyme telomerase but, particularly in telomerase-free systems, the maintenance of chromosomal termini depends on alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) mechanisms mediated by recombination. Various linear and circular DNA structures were identified to participate in ALT, however, dynamics of the whole process is still poorly understood. We propose a chemical kinetics model of ALT with kinetic rates systematically derived from the biophysics of DNA diffusion and looping. The reaction system is reduced to a coagulation-fragmentation system by quasi-steady-state approximation. The detailed treatment of kinetic rates yields explicit formulas for expected size distributions of telomeres that demonstrate the key role played by the J factor, a quantitative measure of bending of polymers. The results are in agreement with experimental data and point out interesting phenomena: an appearance of very long telomeric circles if the total telomere density exceeds a critical value (excess mass) and a nonlinear response of the telomere size distributions to the amount of telomeric DNA in the system. The results can be of general importance for understanding dynamics of telomeres in telomerase-independent systems as this mode of telomere maintenance is similar to the situation in tumor cells lacking telomerase activity. Furthermore, due to its universality, the model may also serve as a prototype of an interaction between linear and circular DNA structures in various settings."}],"article_number":"032701","date_created":"2018-12-11T11:54:35Z","volume":89,"oa_version":"Submitted Version","date_updated":"2025-09-29T13:03:34Z","_id":"1896","citation":{"ieee":"R. Kollár, K. Bodova, J. Nosek, and Ľ. Tomáška, “Mathematical model of alternative mechanism of telomere length maintenance,” <i>Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics</i>, vol. 89, no. 3. American Institute of Physics, 2014.","mla":"Kollár, Richard, et al. “Mathematical Model of Alternative Mechanism of Telomere Length Maintenance.” <i>Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics</i>, vol. 89, no. 3, 032701, American Institute of Physics, 2014, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032701\">10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032701</a>.","ama":"Kollár R, Bodova K, Nosek J, Tomáška Ľ. Mathematical model of alternative mechanism of telomere length maintenance. <i>Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics</i>. 2014;89(3). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032701\">10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032701</a>","ista":"Kollár R, Bodova K, Nosek J, Tomáška Ľ. 2014. Mathematical model of alternative mechanism of telomere length maintenance. Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics. 89(3), 032701.","apa":"Kollár, R., Bodova, K., Nosek, J., &#38; Tomáška, Ľ. (2014). Mathematical model of alternative mechanism of telomere length maintenance. <i>Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics</i>. American Institute of Physics. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032701\">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032701</a>","short":"R. Kollár, K. Bodova, J. Nosek, Ľ. Tomáška, Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics 89 (2014).","chicago":"Kollár, Richard, Katarina Bodova, Jozef Nosek, and Ľubomír Tomáška. “Mathematical Model of Alternative Mechanism of Telomere Length Maintenance.” <i>Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics</i>. American Institute of Physics, 2014. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032701\">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032701</a>."},"month":"03","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"American Institute of Physics","year":"2014","acknowledgement":"The work was supported by the VEGA Grant No. 1/0459/13 (R.K. and K.B.).","article_processing_charge":"No","publication":"Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics","type":"journal_article","date_published":"2014-03-04T00:00:00Z","author":[{"full_name":"Kollár, Richard","first_name":"Richard","last_name":"Kollár"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-7214-0171","first_name":"Katarína","id":"2BA24EA0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Bod'ová","full_name":"Bod'ová, Katarína"},{"full_name":"Nosek, Jozef","first_name":"Jozef","last_name":"Nosek"},{"full_name":"Tomáška, Ľubomír","last_name":"Tomáška","first_name":"Ľubomír"}],"title":"Mathematical model of alternative mechanism of telomere length maintenance","arxiv":1,"publist_id":"5198","isi":1},{"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"}],"doi":"10.1534/genetics.113.160705","day":"01","project":[{"grant_number":"250152","_id":"25B07788-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"FP7","name":"Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation"}],"publication_status":"published","status":"public","main_file_link":[{"url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0737","open_access":"1"}],"oa":1,"issue":"4","intvolume":"       196","scopus_import":"1","external_id":{"isi":["000334179300022"],"arxiv":["1307.0737"]},"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:54:39Z","volume":196,"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"In large populations, multiple beneficial mutations may be simultaneously spreading. In asexual populations, these mutations must either arise on the same background or compete against each other. In sexual populations, recombination can bring together beneficial alleles from different backgrounds, but tightly linked alleles may still greatly interfere with each other. We show for well-mixed populations that when this interference is strong, the genome can be seen as consisting of many effectively asexual stretches linked together. The rate at which beneficial alleles fix is thus roughly proportional to the rate of recombination and depends only logarithmically on the mutation supply and the strength of selection. Our scaling arguments also allow us to predict, with reasonable accuracy, the fitness distribution of fixed mutations when the mutational effect sizes are broad. We focus on the regime in which crossovers occur more frequently than beneficial mutations, as is likely to be the case for many natural populations."}],"oa_version":"Submitted Version","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"corr_author":"1","publisher":"Genetics Society of America","_id":"1908","citation":{"chicago":"Weissman, Daniel, and Oskar Hallatschek. “The Rate of Adaptation in Large Sexual Populations with Linear Chromosomes.” <i>Genetics</i>. Genetics Society of America, 2014. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.160705\">https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.160705</a>.","ama":"Weissman D, Hallatschek O. The rate of adaptation in large sexual populations with linear chromosomes. <i>Genetics</i>. 2014;196(4):1167-1183. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.160705\">10.1534/genetics.113.160705</a>","mla":"Weissman, Daniel, and Oskar Hallatschek. “The Rate of Adaptation in Large Sexual Populations with Linear Chromosomes.” <i>Genetics</i>, vol. 196, no. 4, Genetics Society of America, 2014, pp. 1167–83, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.160705\">10.1534/genetics.113.160705</a>.","ieee":"D. Weissman and O. Hallatschek, “The rate of adaptation in large sexual populations with linear chromosomes,” <i>Genetics</i>, vol. 196, no. 4. Genetics Society of America, pp. 1167–1183, 2014.","apa":"Weissman, D., &#38; Hallatschek, O. (2014). The rate of adaptation in large sexual populations with linear chromosomes. <i>Genetics</i>. Genetics Society of America. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.160705\">https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.160705</a>","short":"D. Weissman, O. Hallatschek, Genetics 196 (2014) 1167–1183.","ista":"Weissman D, Hallatschek O. 2014. The rate of adaptation in large sexual populations with linear chromosomes. 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The challenge for organisms is to construct phenotypes using the most accurate environmental cue. Here, we use a quantitative genetic model of adaptation by additive genetic variance, within- and transgenerational plasticity via linear reaction norms and indirect genetic effects respectively. We show how the relative influence on the eventual phenotype of these components depends on the predictability of environmental change (fast or slow, sinusoidal or stochastic) and the developmental lag τ between when the environment is perceived and when selection acts. We then decompose expected mean fitness into three components (variance load, adaptation and fluctuation load) to study the fitness costs of within- and transgenerational plasticity. A strongly negative maternal effect coefficient m minimizes the variance load, but a strongly positive m minimises the fluctuation load. The adaptation term is maximized closer to zero, with positive or negative m preferred under different environmental scenarios. Phenotypic plasticity is higher when τ is shorter and when the environment changes frequently between seasonal extremes. Expected mean population fitness is highest away from highest observed levels of phenotypic plasticity. Within- and transgenerational plasticity act in concert to deliver well-adapted phenotypes, which emphasizes the need to study both simultaneously when investigating phenotypic evolution.","lang":"eng"}],"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:54:40Z","volume":28,"external_id":{"isi":["000335954900016"]},"tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"scopus_import":"1","intvolume":"        28","acknowledgement":"Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Grant Number: EP/H031928/1","year":"2014","citation":{"chicago":"Ezard, Thomas, Roshan Prizak, and Rebecca Hoyle. “The Fitness Costs of Adaptation via Phenotypic Plasticity and Maternal Effects.” <i>Functional Ecology</i>. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12207\">https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12207</a>.","short":"T. Ezard, R. Prizak, R. Hoyle, Functional Ecology 28 (2014) 693–701.","apa":"Ezard, T., Prizak, R., &#38; Hoyle, R. (2014). The fitness costs of adaptation via phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects. <i>Functional Ecology</i>. Wiley-Blackwell. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12207\">https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12207</a>","ista":"Ezard T, Prizak R, Hoyle R. 2014. The fitness costs of adaptation via phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects. Functional Ecology. 28(3), 693–701.","mla":"Ezard, Thomas, et al. “The Fitness Costs of Adaptation via Phenotypic Plasticity and Maternal Effects.” <i>Functional Ecology</i>, vol. 28, no. 3, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp. 693–701, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12207\">10.1111/1365-2435.12207</a>.","ama":"Ezard T, Prizak R, Hoyle R. The fitness costs of adaptation via phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects. <i>Functional Ecology</i>. 2014;28(3):693-701. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12207\">10.1111/1365-2435.12207</a>","ieee":"T. Ezard, R. Prizak, and R. Hoyle, “The fitness costs of adaptation via phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects,” <i>Functional Ecology</i>, vol. 28, no. 3. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 693–701, 2014."},"_id":"1909","date_updated":"2025-09-29T12:26:34Z","page":"693 - 701","month":"06","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"Wiley-Blackwell","file":[{"creator":"system","file_id":"5167","date_created":"2018-12-12T10:15:45Z","file_size":536154,"checksum":"3cbe8623174709a8ceec2103246f8fe0","file_name":"IST-2016-419-v1+1_Ezard_et_al-2014-Functional_Ecology.pdf","access_level":"open_access","date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:45:20Z","relation":"main_file","content_type":"application/pdf"}],"author":[{"full_name":"Ezard, Thomas","last_name":"Ezard","first_name":"Thomas"},{"full_name":"Prizak, Roshan","last_name":"Prizak","first_name":"Roshan","id":"4456104E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"first_name":"Rebecca","last_name":"Hoyle","full_name":"Hoyle, Rebecca"}],"title":"The fitness costs of adaptation via phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects","publist_id":"5186","isi":1,"type":"journal_article","has_accepted_license":"1","date_published":"2014-06-01T00:00:00Z","ddc":["570"],"publication":"Functional Ecology","article_processing_charge":"No"},{"publication":"Evolution","quality_controlled":"1","article_processing_charge":"No","title":"Cryptic genetic variation can make &quot;irreducible complexity&quot; a common mode of adaptation in sexual populations","author":[{"full_name":"Trotter, Meredith","first_name":"Meredith","last_name":"Trotter"},{"full_name":"Weissman, Daniel","first_name":"Daniel","id":"2D0CE020-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Weissman"},{"full_name":"Peterson, Grant","last_name":"Peterson","first_name":"Grant"},{"full_name":"Peck, Kayla","first_name":"Kayla","last_name":"Peck"},{"last_name":"Masel","first_name":"Joanna","full_name":"Masel, Joanna"}],"isi":1,"publist_id":"5162","ec_funded":1,"arxiv":1,"type":"journal_article","date_published":"2014-12-01T00:00:00Z","month":"12","_id":"1932","date_updated":"2025-09-29T12:10:43Z","page":"3357 - 3367","citation":{"ista":"Trotter M, Weissman D, Peterson G, Peck K, Masel J. 2014. Cryptic genetic variation can make &#38;quot;irreducible complexity&#38;quot; a common mode of adaptation in sexual populations. Evolution. 68(12), 3357–3367.","short":"M. Trotter, D. Weissman, G. Peterson, K. Peck, J. Masel, Evolution 68 (2014) 3357–3367.","apa":"Trotter, M., Weissman, D., Peterson, G., Peck, K., &#38; Masel, J. (2014). Cryptic genetic variation can make &#38;quot;irreducible complexity&#38;quot; a common mode of adaptation in sexual populations. <i>Evolution</i>. Wiley-Blackwell. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12517\">https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12517</a>","ieee":"M. Trotter, D. Weissman, G. Peterson, K. Peck, and J. Masel, “Cryptic genetic variation can make &#38;quot;irreducible complexity&#38;quot; a common mode of adaptation in sexual populations,” <i>Evolution</i>, vol. 68, no. 12. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 3357–3367, 2014.","mla":"Trotter, Meredith, et al. “Cryptic Genetic Variation Can Make &#38;quot;Irreducible Complexity&#38;quot; a Common Mode of Adaptation in Sexual Populations.” <i>Evolution</i>, vol. 68, no. 12, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp. 3357–67, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12517\">10.1111/evo.12517</a>.","ama":"Trotter M, Weissman D, Peterson G, Peck K, Masel J. Cryptic genetic variation can make &#38;quot;irreducible complexity&#38;quot; a common mode of adaptation in sexual populations. <i>Evolution</i>. 2014;68(12):3357-3367. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12517\">10.1111/evo.12517</a>","chicago":"Trotter, Meredith, Daniel Weissman, Grant Peterson, Kayla Peck, and Joanna Masel. “Cryptic Genetic Variation Can Make &#38;quot;Irreducible Complexity&#38;quot; a Common Mode of Adaptation in Sexual Populations.” <i>Evolution</i>. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12517\">https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12517</a>."},"publisher":"Wiley-Blackwell","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"acknowledgement":"Funded by National Institutes of Health. Grant Numbers: R01GM076041, R01GM104040         \r\n\r\nSimons Foundation\r\n\r\n","year":"2014","external_id":{"arxiv":["1310.6077"],"isi":["000346075600001"]},"scopus_import":"1","intvolume":"        68","oa_version":"Submitted Version","abstract":[{"text":"The existence of complex (multiple-step) genetic adaptations that are &quot;irreducible&quot; (i.e., all partial combinations are less fit than the original genotype) is one of the longest standing problems in evolutionary biology. In standard genetics parlance, these adaptations require the crossing of a wide adaptive valley of deleterious intermediate stages. Here, we demonstrate, using a simple model, that evolution can cross wide valleys to produce &quot;irreducibly complex&quot; adaptations by making use of previously cryptic mutations. When revealed by an evolutionary capacitor, previously cryptic mutants have higher initial frequencies than do new mutations, bringing them closer to a valley-crossing saddle in allele frequency space. Moreover, simple combinatorics implies an enormous number of candidate combinations exist within available cryptic genetic variation. We model the dynamics of crossing of a wide adaptive valley after a capacitance event using both numerical simulations and analytical approximations. Although individual valley crossing events become less likely as valleys widen, by taking the combinatorics of genotype space into account, we see that revealing cryptic variation can cause the frequent evolution of complex adaptations.","lang":"eng"}],"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:54:47Z","volume":68,"status":"public","publication_status":"published","project":[{"call_identifier":"FP7","grant_number":"250152","_id":"25B07788-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation"}],"day":"01","doi":"10.1111/evo.12517","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"}],"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","issue":"12","oa":1,"main_file_link":[{"url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6077","open_access":"1"}]},{"issue":"3","oa":1,"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014306/"}],"status":"public","publication_status":"published","project":[{"name":"Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation","_id":"25B07788-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"250152","call_identifier":"FP7"}],"day":"13","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"}],"user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","doi":"10.1093/beheco/aru002","oa_version":"Submitted Version","abstract":[{"text":"The social intelligence hypothesis states that the need to cope with complexities of social life has driven the evolution of advanced cognitive abilities. It is usually invoked in the context of challenges arising from complex intragroup structures, hierarchies, and alliances. However, a fundamental aspect of group living remains largely unexplored as a driving force in cognitive evolution: the competition between individuals searching for resources (producers) and conspecifics that parasitize their findings (scroungers). In populations of social foragers, abilities that enable scroungers to steal by outsmarting producers, and those allowing producers to prevent theft by outsmarting scroungers, are likely to be beneficial and may fuel a cognitive arms race. Using analytical theory and agent-based simulations, we present a general model for such a race that is driven by the producer-scrounger game and show that the race's plausibility is dramatically affected by the nature of the evolving abilities. If scrounging and scrounging avoidance rely on separate, strategy-specific cognitive abilities, arms races are short-lived and have a limited effect on cognition. However, general cognitive abilities that facilitate both scrounging and scrounging avoidance undergo stable, long-lasting arms races. Thus, ubiquitous foraging interactions may lead to the evolution of general cognitive abilities in social animals, without the requirement of complex intragroup structures.","lang":"eng"}],"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:54:48Z","volume":25,"external_id":{"isi":["000336486100012"]},"scopus_import":"1","intvolume":"        25","year":"2014","page":"487 - 495","_id":"1936","citation":{"ama":"Arbilly M, Weissman D, Feldman M, Grodzinski U. 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Our analysis of sequence blocks sampled from a single genome from each of three major glacial refugia reveals support for an unexpected history dominated by recent admixture. Despite the fact that 80% of the genome is affected by admixture during the last glacial cycle, we are able to infer the deeper divergence history of these populations. These inferences are robust to variation in block length, mutation model and the sampling location of individual genomes within refugia. 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Furthermore, the genetic variance that is maintained by mutation-selection balance is 2μ/S per locus, where μ is the mutation rate and S the strength of stabilizing selection. In reality, alleles vary in their effects, making the fitness landscape asymmetric and complicating analysis of the equilibria. We show that that the resulting genetic variance depends on the fraction of alleles near fixation, which contribute by 2μ/S, and on the total mutational effects of alleles that are at intermediate frequency. The inpplayfi between stabilizing selection and mutation leads to a sharp transition: alleles with effects smaller than a threshold value of 2 remain polymorphic, whereas those with larger effects are fixed. The genetic load in equilibrium is less than for traits of equal effects, and the fitness equilibria are more similar. 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Fitness consequences of maternal and grandmaternal effects. Ecology and Evolution. 4(15), 3139–3145.","apa":"Prizak, R., Ezard, T., &#38; Hoyle, R. (2014). Fitness consequences of maternal and grandmaternal effects. <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>. Wiley-Blackwell. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1150\">https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1150</a>","short":"R. Prizak, T. Ezard, R. Hoyle, Ecology and Evolution 4 (2014) 3139–3145.","ieee":"R. Prizak, T. Ezard, and R. Hoyle, “Fitness consequences of maternal and grandmaternal effects,” <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>, vol. 4, no. 15. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 3139–3145, 2014.","ama":"Prizak R, Ezard T, Hoyle R. Fitness consequences of maternal and grandmaternal effects. <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>. 2014;4(15):3139-3145. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1150\">10.1002/ece3.1150</a>","mla":"Prizak, Roshan, et al. “Fitness Consequences of Maternal and Grandmaternal Effects.” <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>, vol. 4, no. 15, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp. 3139–45, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1150\">10.1002/ece3.1150</a>."},"_id":"537","page":"3139 - 3145","date_updated":"2025-09-29T13:17:53Z","month":"07","date_published":"2014-07-19T00:00:00Z","has_accepted_license":"1","type":"journal_article","publist_id":"7280","isi":1,"author":[{"last_name":"Prizak","id":"4456104E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Roshan","full_name":"Prizak, Roshan"},{"full_name":"Ezard, Thomas","first_name":"Thomas","last_name":"Ezard"},{"last_name":"Hoyle","first_name":"Rebecca","full_name":"Hoyle, Rebecca"}],"title":"Fitness consequences of maternal and grandmaternal effects","article_processing_charge":"No","publication":"Ecology and Evolution","ddc":["530","571"],"pubrep_id":"934","oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:46:38Z","issue":"15","user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"},{"_id":"GaTk"}],"doi":"10.1002/ece3.1150","day":"19","publication_status":"published","status":"public","date_created":"2018-12-11T11:47:02Z","volume":4,"abstract":[{"text":"Transgenerational effects are broader than only parental relationships. Despite mounting evidence that multigenerational effects alter phenotypic and life-history traits, our understanding of how they combine to determine fitness is not well developed because of the added complexity necessary to study them. Here, we derive a quantitative genetic model of adaptation to an extraordinary new environment by an additive genetic component, phenotypic plasticity, maternal and grandmaternal effects. We show how, at equilibrium, negative maternal and negative grandmaternal effects maximize expected population mean fitness. We define negative transgenerational effects as those that have a negative effect on trait expression in the subsequent generation, that is, they slow, or potentially reverse, the expected evolutionary dynamic. When maternal effects are positive, negative grandmaternal effects are preferred. As expected under Mendelian inheritance, the grandmaternal effects have a lower impact on fitness than the maternal effects, but this dual inheritance model predicts a more complex relationship between maternal and grandmaternal effects to constrain phenotypic variance and so maximize expected population mean fitness in the offspring.","lang":"eng"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","intvolume":"         4","scopus_import":"1","tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"external_id":{"isi":["000340575000015"]}},{"status":"public","publication_status":"published","day":"27","project":[{"_id":"25B07788-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"250152","call_identifier":"FP7","name":"Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation"}],"doi":"10.1002/ece3.1289","user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"}],"issue":"24","oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:45:25Z","pubrep_id":"462","external_id":{"isi":["000346736200003"]},"tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"scopus_import":"1","intvolume":"         4","oa_version":"Published Version","related_material":{"record":[{"relation":"dissertation_contains","id":"1125","status":"public"}]},"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Understanding the evolution of dispersal is essential for understanding and predicting the dynamics of natural populations. Two main factors are known to influence dispersal evolution: spatio-temporal variation in the environment and relatedness between individuals. However, the relation between these factors is still poorly understood, and they are usually treated separately. In this article, I present a theoretical framework that contains and connects effects of both environmental variation and relatedness, and reproduces and extends their known features. Spatial habitat variation selects for balanced dispersal strategies, whereby the population is kept at an ideal free distribution. Within this class of dispersal strategies, I explain how increased dispersal is promoted by perturbations to the dispersal type frequencies. An explicit formula shows the magnitude of the selective advantage of increased dispersal in terms of the spatial variability in the frequencies of the different dispersal strategies present. These variances are capable of capturing various sources of stochasticity and hence establish a common scale for their effects on the evolution of dispersal. The results furthermore indicate an alternative approach to identifying effects of relatedness on dispersal evolution."}],"volume":4,"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:55:16Z","month":"11","_id":"2023","date_updated":"2026-04-09T14:25:34Z","page":"4589 - 4597","citation":{"chicago":"Novak, Sebastian. “Habitat Heterogeneities versus Spatial Type Frequency Variances as Driving Forces of Dispersal Evolution.” <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1289\">https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1289</a>.","ieee":"S. Novak, “Habitat heterogeneities versus spatial type frequency variances as driving forces of dispersal evolution,” <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>, vol. 4, no. 24. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 4589–4597, 2014.","mla":"Novak, Sebastian. “Habitat Heterogeneities versus Spatial Type Frequency Variances as Driving Forces of Dispersal Evolution.” <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>, vol. 4, no. 24, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp. 4589–97, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1289\">10.1002/ece3.1289</a>.","ama":"Novak S. Habitat heterogeneities versus spatial type frequency variances as driving forces of dispersal evolution. <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>. 2014;4(24):4589-4597. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1289\">10.1002/ece3.1289</a>","ista":"Novak S. 2014. Habitat heterogeneities versus spatial type frequency variances as driving forces of dispersal evolution. Ecology and Evolution. 4(24), 4589–4597.","short":"S. Novak, Ecology and Evolution 4 (2014) 4589–4597.","apa":"Novak, S. (2014). Habitat heterogeneities versus spatial type frequency variances as driving forces of dispersal evolution. <i>Ecology and Evolution</i>. Wiley-Blackwell. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1289\">https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1289</a>"},"publisher":"Wiley-Blackwell","corr_author":"1","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"file":[{"file_id":"4946","creator":"system","file_name":"IST-2016-462-v1+1_Novak-2014-Ecology_and_Evolution.pdf","date_created":"2018-12-12T10:12:28Z","checksum":"9ab43db1b0fede7bfe560ed77e177b76","file_size":118813,"access_level":"open_access","date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:45:25Z","content_type":"application/pdf","relation":"main_file"}],"year":"2014","ddc":["570"],"publication":"Ecology and Evolution","quality_controlled":"1","article_processing_charge":"No","title":"Habitat heterogeneities versus spatial type frequency variances as driving forces of dispersal evolution","author":[{"full_name":"Novak, Sebastian","id":"461468AE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Sebastian","last_name":"Novak","orcid":"0000-0002-2519-824X"}],"isi":1,"publist_id":"5049","ec_funded":1,"has_accepted_license":"1","type":"journal_article","date_published":"2014-11-27T00:00:00Z"},{"scopus_import":1,"oa_version":"Submitted Version","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Even though both population and quantitative genetics, and evolutionary computation, deal with the same questions, they have developed largely independently of each other. I review key results from each field, emphasising those that apply independently of the (usually unknown) relation between genotype and phenotype. The infinitesimal model provides a simple framework for predicting the response of complex traits to selection, which in biology has proved remarkably successful. This allows one to choose the schedule of population sizes and selection intensities that will maximise the response to selection, given that the total number of individuals realised, C = ∑t Nt, is constrained. This argument shows that for an additive trait (i.e., determined by the sum of effects of the genes), the optimum population size and the maximum possible response (i.e., the total change in trait mean) are both proportional to √C."}],"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:59:14Z","status":"public","publication_status":"published","project":[{"grant_number":"250152","_id":"25B07788-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"FP7","name":"Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation"}],"day":"01","doi":"10.1145/2463372.2463568","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","department":[{"_id":"NiBa"},{"_id":"CaGu"}],"oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:45:45Z","pubrep_id":"564","ddc":["570"],"publication":"Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation","quality_controlled":"1","title":"Can quantitative and population genetics help us understand evolutionary computation?","author":[{"orcid":"0000-0002-8548-5240","full_name":"Barton, Nicholas H","last_name":"Barton","id":"4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Nicholas H"},{"full_name":"Paixao, Tiago","last_name":"Paixao","id":"2C5658E6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Tiago","orcid":"0000-0003-2361-3953"}],"publist_id":"4174","ec_funded":1,"has_accepted_license":"1","type":"conference","date_published":"2013-07-01T00:00:00Z","month":"07","date_updated":"2024-10-09T20:55:12Z","_id":"2718","citation":{"apa":"Barton, N. H., &#38; Paixao, T. (2013). Can quantitative and population genetics help us understand evolutionary computation? In <i>Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation</i> (pp. 1573–1580). Amsterdam, Netherlands: ACM. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/2463372.2463568\">https://doi.org/10.1145/2463372.2463568</a>","short":"N.H. Barton, T. Paixao, in:, Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, ACM, 2013, pp. 1573–1580.","ista":"Barton NH, Paixao T. 2013. Can quantitative and population genetics help us understand evolutionary computation? Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation. GECCO: Genetic and evolutionary computation conference, 1573–1580.","ama":"Barton NH, Paixao T. Can quantitative and population genetics help us understand evolutionary computation? In: <i>Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation</i>. 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