List of works by Joanna Masel

A Shift in Aggregation Avoidance Strategy Marks a Long-Term Direction to Protein Evolution

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

A shift in aggregation avoidance strategy marks a long-term direction to protein evolution

Answering evolutionary questions: A guide for mechanistic biologists

scientific article

Chance, purpose, and progress in evolution and christianity

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Compensatory evolution and the origins of innovations

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Complex adaptations can drive the evolution of the capacitor [PSI], even with realistic rates of yeast sex

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Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity.

scientific article published on 18 February 2015

Cryptic genetic variation can make “irreducible complexity” a common mode of adaptation in sexual populations

scientific article (publication date: 29 September 2014)

Cryptic genetic variation is enriched for potential adaptations

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Density-dependent selection and the limits of relative fitness

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Designing drugs to stop the formation of prion aggregates and other amyloids.

scientific article

Different mechanisms drive the maintenance of polymorphism at loci subject to strong versus weak fluctuating selection

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Directional Selection Rather Than Functional Constraints Can Shape the G Matrix in Rapidly Adapting Asexuals

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Drift Barriers to Quality Control When Genes Are Expressed at Different Levels

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

Efficient inhibition of prion replication by PrP-Fc(2) suggests that the prion is a PrP(Sc) oligomer.

scientific article published on 8 December 2004

Evolution of molecular error rates and the consequences for evolvability

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Feed-forward regulation adaptively evolves via dynamics rather than topology when there is intrinsic noise.

scientific article published on 3 June 2019

Gene Birth Contributes to Structural Disorder Encoded by Overlapping Genes

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Genetic drift

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High Transcriptional Error Rates Vary as a Function of Gene Expression Level

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Intercellular competition and the inevitability of multicellular aging

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Mutations leading to loss of sporulation ability in Bacillus subtilis are sufficiently frequent to favor genetic canalization

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Prion kinetics.

scientific article published in July 2004

Protein stickiness, rather than number of functional protein-protein interactions, predicts expression noise and plasticity in yeast

scientific article published in 2012

Putatively noncoding transcripts show extensive association with ribosomes

scientific article published on 26 September 2011

Q&A;: Evolutionary capacitance

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Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 Infection Risk Within the Google/Apple Exposure Notification Framework to Inform Quarantine Recommendations

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

Quantifying the kinetic parameters of prion replication.

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Quantitative prediction of molecular clock and ka/ks at short timescales

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Reply to Cheong et al.: Unicellular survival precludes Parrondo's paradox

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Rethinking Hardy-Weinberg and genetic drift in undergraduate biology

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Robustness and evolvability

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Robustness: mechanisms and consequences

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THE EVOLUTION OF THE EVOLVABILITY PROPERTIES OF THE YEAST PRION [PSI + ]

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The conversion of 3' UTRs into coding regions

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The evolution of bet-hedging adaptations to rare scenarios

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The evolution of reversible switches in the presence of irreversible mimics

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The evolution of the evolvability properties of the yeast prion [PSI+]

scientific article (publication date: July 2003)

The loss of adaptive plasticity during long periods of environmental stasis

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The measured level of prion infectivity varies in a predictable way according to the aggregation state of the infectious agent

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

The population genetics of phenotypic deterioration in experimental populations of Bacillus subtilis

scientific article published in April 2006

The roles of mutation accumulation and selection in loss of sporulation in experimental populations of Bacillus subtilis

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The spontaneous appearance rate of the yeast prion [PSI+] and its implications for the evolution of the evolvability properties of the [PSI+] system

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The strength of selection against the yeast prion [PSI+]

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Universal and taxon-specific trends in protein sequences as a function of age

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

What Fraction of Duplicates Observed in Recently Sequenced Genomes Is Segregating and Destined to Fail to Fix?

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Young Genes are Highly Disordered as Predicted by the Preadaptation Hypothesis of De Novo Gene Birth.

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