Recent Publications: Stephen Proulx

Teotónio, H., Rose, M. R., Proulx, S. R. 2008. Phenotypic plasticity and evolvability: an empirical test with experimental evolution. Phenotypic Plasticity in Insects (in press). D. Whitman and T. N. Ananthakrishnan, Eds. Science Publishers, Inc. Plymouth, UK.
Proulx, S. R., Promislow, D., and Nuzhdin, S. 2007. Direct selection on genetic robustness is revealed in the yeast transcriptome. PLoS ONE 2(9): e911, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000911
O'Fallon, B., Adler, F. R., and Proulx, S. R. 2007. Quasispecies evolution in subdivided populations favors maximally deleterious mutations. Proceedings: Biological Sciences http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1228
Anderson, J. L., Albergotti, L., Proulx, S. R., Peden, C., Huey, R. B., Phillips, P. C. 2007. Thermal preference of Caenorhabditis elegans: a null model and empirical tests. The Journal of Experimental Biology 210:3107-3116.
Shpak, M. and Proulx, S. R. 2007. The role of life cycle and migration in selection for variance in offspring number. Bul letin of Mathematical Biology 69(3):837- 860.
Yu, D. W., Proulx, S. R., Shepard, G. H. 2007. Masculinity, culture and the Paradox of the Lek. The Body Beautiful . Viren Swami and Adrian Furnham, Eds. Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
Proulx, S. R., Phillips, P. C. 2006. Allelic divergence precedes and promotes gene duplication. Evolution 60(5):881-892. (Faculty of 1000 Hidden Jewel)
Proulx, S. R., Promislow, D., and Phillips, P. C. 2005. Network thinking in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20(6):345-353.
Proulx, S. R., Phillips, P. C. 2005. The opportunity for canalization and the evolution of genetic networks. The American Naturalist 165(2):147-162. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AN/journal/issues/v165n2/40509/40509.html. (Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Article)
Force, A., Cresko, W., Pickett, B., Proulx, S. R., Amemiya, C., Lynch, M. 2005. The origin of subfunctions and modular gene regulation. Genetics 170: 433-446.
Day, T., Proulx, S. R. 2004. A general theory for the evolutionary dynamics of virulence. The American Naturalist 163(4):E40-E63. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AN/journal/issues/v163n4/30057/30057.html.
Proulx, S. R. 2004. Sources of stochasticity in models of sex allocation in spatially structured populations. The Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17:924- 930.
Lorch, P. Proulx, S. , Day, T. and Rowe, L. 2003. Condition dependent sexual selection accelerates adaptation by natural selection. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5(6):867-881.
Proulx, S. R., Day, T. and Rowe, L. 2002. Older males signal more reliably. Proceedings: Biological Sciences 269:2291-2299.
Proulx, S. R. 2002. Niche shifts and expansion due to sexual selection. Evolutionary Ecology Research 4:351-369.
Proulx, S. R. and Day, T. 2001. What can invasion analyses tell us about evolution under stochasticity in finite populations? Selection: Molecules, Genes, and Memes 2:2-15.
Proulx, S. R. 2001. Female choice via indicator traits easily evolves in the face of recombination and migration. Evolution 55(12):2401-2411.
Proulx, S. R. 2001. Can behavioural constraints alter the stability of signalling equilibria? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 268:2307-2313.
Yook, K., Proulx, S. R., Jorgenson, E. 2001, Rules of nonallelic noncomplementation at the synapse in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 158(1):209-220.
Proulx, S. R. 2000. The ESS under spatial variation with applications to sex allocation. Theoretical Population Biology 58(1):33-47.
Proulx, S. R. 1999. Matings systems and the evolution of niche breadth. The American Naturalist 154(1):89-98.

Selected Publications: Stephen Proulx