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November 2011 Evolution of adaptive phenotypic traits without positive Darwinian selelction
Genome-wide comparisons to identify bird chromosome rearrangements
Using Y-chromosomes to reconstruct the history of dog domestication
Centromere repositioning in mammals


September 2011 Bighorn sheep genomics- the genetics of being large and horny; Does hybridisation trigger speciation- the case of the Oxford ragwort; Injecting Genetics into conservation policy and practice- the 'ConGRESS' European FP7 project


July 2011 Basic mathematical errors in molecular clock calculations, using multiple genetic markers to nail down the origin of Irish pygmy shrews, evolution of SINES, first lessons from the Arabidopsis lyrata genome


May 2011 Learning about evolution from dog genetics, successful sperm competition and its heritability, evolution of malarial resistance, measuring inbreeding, the evolution of genetic modularity, long distance gene flow in trees


March 2011 Agressive Soviet rats (and friendly ones), a new model for the evolution of altruism, environmental influences on the differentiation of dolphins, salmonid genetics


January 2011
Rampant Eastern European Y chromosomes, wolf conservation genetics, measuring genetic differentiation (Fst)


December 2009
Heritability of ageing, implications of genetic linkage and the genetics of sex determination in dragon lizards


November 2009
Kleptogenesis, scrapie genetics, global warming & Drosophila and a return to the strange meiotic system of dogroses.



August 2009 Understanding genetic diversity in the wild, characterizing it, understanding how plants may use it, and how human management may diminish it.






June 2009

Family drama in some of Mendel and Darwin's favourite species plus Bayesian statistics and the nature of the genetic code




Winter 2008/9
A special issue to celebrate the opening of the free Heredity Archive containing all the papers back to the first issue in 1947. Geneticists select their favourite papers from the archive:

Kevin Dawson's and Steve Le Comber on Fisher's early Heredity Papers:

Tracy Chapman on the manipulation of fitness by seminal fluids

Lori Lawson-Handley and Elizabeth McCarthy on Kettlewell's early Heredity papers


April 2008 Social parasites and the evolution of virulence, new methods for studying polyploids and evolution: just how predictable is it?
   
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