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List of works by Adam Eyre-Walker

A broad survey of recombination in animal mitochondria

scientific article

A dissection of volatility in yeast.

scientific article published on 15 June 2005

A method for inferring the rate of occurrence and fitness effects of advantageous mutations

scientific article published on 27 September 2011

A new perspective on isochore evolution.

scientific article published on 5 August 2006

A problem with the correlation coefficient as a measure of gene expression divergence

scientific article published on 12 October 2009

A reanalysis of the indirect evidence for recombination in human mitochondrial DNA.

scientific article published on April 2004

A resolution of the mutation load paradox in humans

scientific article

A selection index for gene expression evolution and its application to the divergence between humans and chimpanzees

scientific article

A test of whether selection maintains isochores using sites polymorphic for Alu and L1 element insertions

scientific article (publication date: February 2002)

Adaptive Evolution Is Substantially Impeded by Hill-Robertson Interference in Drosophila

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Adaptive protein evolution in Drosophila

scientific article

An analysis of codon usage in mammals: selection or mutation bias?

scientific article published in November 1991

An improved genome of the model marine alga Ostreococcus tauri unfolds by assessing Illumina de novo assemblies

scientific article

An investigation of the variation in the transition bias among various animal mitochondrial DNA.

scientific article published in August 2005

Analysis of the phylogenetic distribution of isochores in vertebrates and a test of the thermal stability hypothesis

scientific article (publication date: September 2002)

Cryptic variation in the human mutation rate

scientific article

DNA sequence diversity and the efficiency of natural selection in animal mitochondrial DNA.

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Deleterious mutations and the evolution of sex.

scientific article published in October 2000

Direct measure of the de novo mutation rate in autism and schizophrenia cohorts

scientific article

Divergence and polymorphism under the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution

scientific article published on 26 September 2008

Does Adaptive Protein Evolution Proceed by Large or Small Steps at the Amino Acid Level?

Does Adaptive Protein Evolution Proceed by Large or Small Steps at the Amino Acid Level?

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Does human mtDNA recombine?

scientific article

Does very short patch (VSP) repair efficiency vary in relation to gene expression levels?

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Editorial

Estimating the distribution of fitness effects from DNA sequence data: implications for the molecular clock

scientific article

Estimating the rate of adaptive molecular evolution in the presence of slightly deleterious mutations and population size change

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Estimating the rate of adaptive molecular evolution when the evolutionary divergence between species is small

scientific article

Estimation of the Neutrality Index

scientific article published on September 13, 2010

Evidence for pervasive adaptive protein evolution in wild mice

scientific article

Evidence for variation in the effective population size of animal mitochondrial DNA

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Evidence for widespread degradation of gene control regions in hominid genomes

scientific article

Evidence of Selection upon Genomic GC-Content in Bacteria

scientific article published on September 9, 2010

Evidence that both G + C rich and G + C poor isochores are replicated early and late in the cell cycle

scientific article

Evolution in health and medicine Sackler colloquium: Genetic architecture of a complex trait and its implications for fitness and genome-wide association studies

scientific article

Evolution. Size does not matter for mitochondrial DNA.

scientific article published in April 2006

Evolutionary genetics. The muddle about mutations

scientific article published in May 1997

Evolutionary genetics: direct evidence of recombination in human mitochondrial DNA

scientific article

Evolutionary genomics: reading the bands

scientific article

Extensive Variation in the Mutation Rate Between and Within Human Genes Associated with Mendelian Disease.

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

Fitness Effects of Spontaneous Mutations in Picoeukaryotic Marine Green Algae

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Fluctuating selection models and McDonald-Kreitman type analyses

scientific article published on 7 January 2014

Genome wide analyses reveal little evidence for adaptive evolution in many plant species.

scientific article

High genomic deleterious mutation rates in hominids

scientific article

How and why DNA barcodes underestimate the diversity of microbial eukaryotes

scientific article

How much of the variation in the mutation rate along the human genome can be explained?

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Human disease genes: patterns and predictions

article

Human triallelic sites: evidence for a new mutational mechanism?

scientific article

Hundreds of putatively functional small open reading frames in Drosophila

scientific article

Investigating Evolutionary Rate Variation in Bacteria

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Investigation of the bottleneck leading to the domestication of maize

scientific article (publication date: 14 April 1998)

Joint inference of the distribution of fitness effects of deleterious mutations and population demography based on nucleotide polymorphism frequencies

scientific article published on December 2007

Large scale variation in the rate of germ-line de novo mutation, base composition, divergence and diversity in humans.

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Linkage disequilibrium and recombination in hominid mitochondrial DNA

scientific article (publication date: 24 December 1999)

Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy: Are Mito-nuclear Interactions Likely To Be a Problem?

scientific article published on April 2017

Mitochondrial replacement and its effects on human health

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Nearly Neutral Evolution Across the Drosophila melanogaster Genome

Nearly Neutral Evolution across the Drosophila melanogaster Genome

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

ODoSE: a webserver for genome-wide calculation of adaptive divergence in prokaryotes

scientific article

Organellar inheritance in the green lineage: insights from Ostreococcus tauri

scientific article published on January 2013

Patterns of Base Composition Within the Genes of Drosophila melanogaster

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Patterns of evolutionary constraints in intronic and intergenic DNA of Drosophila.

scientific article

Patterns of selection in the evolution of a transposable element

scientific article published in 2022

Population genomics of picophytoplankton unveils novel chromosome hypervariability.

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Population size and the rate of evolution.

scientific article published on 20 October 2013

Problems with Parsimony in Sequences of Biased Base Composition

article

Rates of Lateral Gene Transfer in Prokaryotes: High but Why?

scientific article published on October 2015

Reduced synonymous substitution rate at the start of enterobacterial genes

scientific article

Reply to Macaulay et al. (1999): mitochondrial DNA recombination-reasons to panic

article by Adam Eyre-Walker et al published 22 October 1999 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Research groups: How big should they be?

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

Response to Kondrashov

article

Searching for sequence directed mutagenesis in eukaryotes

scientific article published on 09 December 2006

Synonymous codon usage in Escherichia coli: selection for translational accuracy.

scientific article

Synonymous substitutions are clustered in enterobacterial genes

scientific article published in November 1994

The McDonald-Kreitman test and slightly deleterious mutations

scientific article published on 14 January 2008

The Positive Correlation between dN/dS and dS in Mammals Is Due to Runs of Adjacent Substitutions

scientific article published on 29 November 2010

The accumulation of gene regulation through time

scientific article

The assessment of science: the relative merits of post-publication review, the impact factor, and the number of citations

scientific article published in October 2013

The close proximity of Escherichia coli genes: consequences for stop codon and synonymous codon use.

scientific article published in February 1996

The comparative population genetics of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

The compositional evolution of the murid genome

scientific article published in August 2002

The decline of isochores in mammals: an assessment of the GC content variation along the mammalian phylogeny

scientific article

The distribution of bacterial doubling times in the wild.

scientific article published in June 2018

The distribution of fitness effects of new deleterious amino acid mutations in humans

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The distribution of fitness effects of new mutations

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The effect of transposable element insertions on gene expression evolution in rodents

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The effect of variation in the effective population size on the rate of adaptive molecular evolution in eukaryotes.

scientific article

The evolution of courtship behaviors through the origination of a new gene in Drosophila

scientific article

The excess of small inverted repeats in prokaryotes

scientific article

The genomic distribution and local context of coincident SNPs in human and chimpanzee.

scientific article published on 8 July 2010

The genomic rate of adaptive amino acid substitution in Drosophila

scientific article published on 24 March 2004

The genomic rate of adaptive evolution

scientific article

The large-scale distribution of somatic mutations in cancer genomes.

scientific article published on 20 October 2011

The other side of the nearly neutral theory, evidence of slightly advantageous back-mutations

scholarly article

The rate of adaptive evolution in animal mitochondria.

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

The rate of adaptive evolution in enteric bacteria

scientific article published on 18 April 2006

Translational selection and molecular evolution

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Transposable elements: insertion pattern and impact on gene expression evolution in hominids

scientific article published on 23 March 2010

Understanding the degradation of hominid gene control

scientific article published in March 2006

Variation in synonymous codon use and DNA polymorphism within the Drosophila genome

scientific article published in January 2006

Variation in the mutation rate across mammalian genomes

scientific article published on 04 October 2011

What can we learn about the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations from DNA sequence data?

scientific article

Why Are Translationally Sub-Optimal Synonymous Codons Used in Escherichia coli?

scientific article published on 01 September 2001

Why are young and old repetitive elements distributed differently in the human genome?

scientific article