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• Listen to the January 2009 episode and read: Key articles from the new Heredity Archive, which is free online and contains many classic genetics papers from 1947 onwards.

  • The Sewall Wright Effect by Fisher and Ford
  • Statistical Methods in Genetics by Fisher
  • An algebraically exact examination of junction formation and transmission in parent-offspring inbreeding by Fisher
  • A preliminary linkage test with Agouti and Undulated mice by Fisher
  • The estimation of linkage with differential viability by Fisher and Bailey
  • Standard calculations for evaluating a blood-group system by Fisher
  • The spread of a gene in natural conditions in a colony of the moth Panaxia dominula L by Fisher and Ford
  • The sex chromosome in the house mouse by Fisher, Lyon, and Owen
  • A twelfth linkage group of the house mouse by Fisher and Snell
  • The quantitative study of populations in the Lepidoptera by Dowdeswell, Fisher, and Ford
  • The variation in strength of the human blood group P by Fisher
  • Selection experiments on industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera by Kettlewell
  • Further selection experiments on industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera by Kettlewell
  • A survey of the frequencies of Biston betularia (L.) (Lep.) and its melanic forms in Great Britain by Kettlewell
  • Also, Tracey Chapman on The manipulation of fitness by seminal fluids

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Heredity Podcast archive

Previous episodes

• Listen to the April 2008 episode and read about:

  • New methods for studying polyploid plant complexes
  • Kin selection and the evolution of virulence
  • Experimental evolution of bacteriophage T7
  • Floral evolution: one-sided evolution or two?
  • Mitochondria and the W chromosome

• Listen to the January 2008 episode and read about:

  • The extraordinary epigenetics of a transposon trap
  • Rapid evolutionary change in a sexual signal
  • Genetic structure of the invasive pest Bemisia tabaci
  • Spatially and temporally fluctuating selection at non-MHC immune genes
  • Time dependency of molecular rate estimates: tempest in a teacup

• Listen to the October 2007 episode and read about:

  • When the going gets tough, beneficial mutations get going
  • Looking for Darwin in all the wrong places
  • Demystifying Moran's I
  • Floral evolution: Spurred on by pollinators
  • Inversions: the chicken or the egg?

• Listen to the July 2007 episode and read about:

  • Invasion success of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, despite a drastic genetic bottleneck
  • Genome sizes through the ages
  • Genome-enabled hitchhiking mapping identifies QTLs for stress resistance in natural Drosophila
  • Low mitochondrial variability in birds may indicate Hill–Robertson effects on the W chromosome

• Listen to the April 2007 episode and read about:

  • Limits to adaptation: evolutionary responses to climatic change
  • The lek paradox resolved? A response
  • Short sperm and stalk-eyed flies
  • Evolutionary togetherness: humans and their pathogens
  • Plant warfare: shifting hybrid zones

• Listen to the February/March 2007 episode and read about:

  • Dos and don'ts of testing the geographic mosaic theory of covevolution
  • Beyond the point of no return: inbreeding in the wild
  • Fluctuating asymmetry and red deer
  • Habitat size and genetic structure in Daphnia

• Listen to the January 2007 episode and read about:

  • Sex to some degree
  • Is inbreeding depressing?
  • Genomic DNA and the outside world
  • Robustness and evolution
  • Phylogeography and freshwater shrimp

• Listen to the final 2006 episode and read about:

  • Are cities genetic melting pots?
  • Sexual selection and evolvability
  • The evolution of sexual dimorphism
  • Dominance of blood pressure alleles
  • Scaling from genes to communities?

• Listen to the October 2006 episode and read about:

  • Spanish flu resurrected
  • Human Y-chromosome prospects
  • Radishes gone wild
  • Inheritance of litter size in Arctic foxes
  • Adaptive history of Drosophila

• Listen to the September 2006 episode and read about:

  • Butterfly wing patterns
  • Stereotyped patterning of Diptera bristles
  • Bush cricket dialects
  • Selection against migrant pathogens
  • Mouse pigmentation
  • Zebrafish patterns

• Listen to the August 2006 episode and read about:

  • New gene, new disease
  • Fishers markers of admixture (junctions created by recombination)
  • Estimating relatedness and relationships using microsatellites with null alleles
  • Spatial patterns of genetic diversity in the European mountain hare
  • DNA barcodes: recent successes and future prospects

• Listen to the July 2006 episode and read about:

  • Speciation: Marathon mollusc migrations
  • Patterns of microsatellite variation through a transition zone of a chromosomal cline in Drosophila americana
  • Separating nurture from nature in estimating heritability
  • Long-term persistence of prereproductive isolation at a mine boundary
  • Wholesale analysis of genes, traits and microarrays

• Listen to the June 2006 episode and read about:

  • Grasping human transcriptome evolution: what does it all mean?
  • Genealogy of wine grape cultivars: 'Pinot' is related to 'Syrah'
  • DNAs from the European Neolithic
  • Evolution of MHC class IIB in the genome of wild and ornamental guppies, Poecilia reticulata
  • Paternal inheritance in parthenogenetic forms of the planarian Schmidtea polychroa

• Listen to the May 2006 episode and read about:

  • My sister is a sea squirt?
  • Speciation: A new role for reinforcement
  • Genome evolution: Micro(be)-economics
  • Sex determination and inbreeding depression in an ant with regular sib-mating
  • Genetic consequences of human management in an introduced island population of red deer (Cervus elaphus)

• Listen to the April 2006 episode and read about:

  • GM debate: dispelling the myths
  • Endosymbiosis: past and present
  • Genetics, development, and palaeontology interlock
  • Evolutionary implications of permanent odd polyploidy in the stable sexual, pentaploid of Rosa canina L
  • Were the Vikings immune to HIV?
  • Quantitative genetics: Similar strokes for different folks
  • The rise and falls of introns