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Detecting the True Extent of Introgression during Anthropogenic Hybridization by McFarlane, S. Eryn, Pemberton, Josephine M.

“…Hybridization among naturally separate taxa is increasing owing to human impact, and can result in taxon loss. Previous classification of anthropogenic…”
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Conserved Genetic Architecture Underlying Individual Recombination Rate Variation in a Wild Population of Soay Sheep (Ovis aries) by Johnston, Susan E, Bérénos, Camillo, Slate, Jon, Pemberton, Josephine M

“…Meiotic recombination breaks down linkage disequilibrium (LD) and forms new haplotypes, meaning that it is an important driver of diversity in eukaryotic…”
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The role of selection and evolution in changing parturition date in a red deer population by Bonnet, Timothée, Morrissey, Michael B, Morris, Alison, Morris, Sean, Clutton-Brock, Tim H, Pemberton, Josephine M, Kruuk, Loeske E B

“…Changing environmental conditions cause changes in the distributions of phenotypic traits in natural populations. However, determining the mechanisms…”
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Inbreeding depression across the lifespan in a wild mammal population by Huisman, Jisca, Kruuk, Loeske E. B., Ellis, Philip A., Clutton-Brock, Tim, Pemberton, Josephine M.

“…Inbreeding depression is of major concern for the conservation of threatened species, and inbreeding avoidance is thought to be a key driver in the evolution…”
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Life history trade-offs at a single locus maintain sexually selected genetic variation by Johnston, Susan E., Gratten, Jacob, Berenos, Camillo, Pilkington, Jill G., Clutton-Brock, Tim H., Pemberton, Josephine M., Slate, Jon

“…Wild Soay sheep rams with large horns have more offspring, yet there is considerable genetic variation at RXFP2 , a locus strongly implicated in horn size…”
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Inbreeding avoidance, tolerance, or preference in animals? by Szulkin, Marta, Stopher, Katie V., Pemberton, Josephine M., Reid, Jane M.

“…► Inbreeding depression is often assumed to cause selection for inbreeding avoidance. ► Animals sometimes tolerate inbreeding, or even prefer to mate with…”
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Selection, recombination and population history effects on runs of homozygosity (ROH) in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus) by Hewett, Anna M, Stoffel, Martin A, Peters, Lucy, Johnston, Susan E, Pemberton, Josephine M

“…The distribution of runs of homozygosity (ROH) may be shaped by a number of interacting processes such as selection, recombination and population history, but…”
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Natural selection on individual variation in tolerance of gastrointestinal nematode infection by Hayward, Adam D, Nussey, Daniel H, Wilson, Alastair J, Berenos, Camillo, Pilkington, Jill G, Watt, Kathryn A, Pemberton, Josephine M, Graham, Andrea L

“…Hosts may mitigate the impact of parasites by two broad strategies: resistance, which limits parasite burden, and tolerance, which limits the fitness or health…”
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Investigating pedigree- and SNP-associated components of heritability in a wild population of Soay sheep by James, Caelinn, Pemberton, Josephine M, Navarro, Pau, Knott, Sara

“…Estimates of narrow sense heritability derived from genomic data that contain related individuals may be biased due to the within-family effects such as…”
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Estimating quantitative genetic parameters in wild populations: a comparison of pedigree and genomic approaches by Bérénos, Camillo, Ellis, Philip A, Pilkington, Jill G, Pemberton, Josephine M

“…The estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in wild populations is generally limited by the accuracy and completeness of the available pedigree…”
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Patterns of MHC‐dependent sexual selection in a free‐living population of sheep by Huang, Wei, Pilkington, Jill G., Pemberton, Josephine M.

“…The MHC is one of the most polymorphic gene clusters in vertebrates and play an essential role in adaptive immunity. Apart from pathogen‐mediated selection,…”
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Lifelong leukocyte telomere dynamics and survival in a free‐living mammal by Fairlie, Jennifer, Holland, Rebecca, Pilkington, Jill G., Pemberton, Josephine M., Harrington, Lea, Nussey, Daniel H.

“…Summary Telomeres play a fundamental role in the maintenance of genomic integrity at a cellular level, and average leukocyte telomere length (LTL) has been…”
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RAD‐sequencing for estimating genomic relatedness matrix‐based heritability in the wild: A case study in roe deer by Gervais, Laura, Perrier, Charles, Bernard, Maria, Merlet, Joël, Pemberton, Josephine M., Pujol, Benoit, Quéméré, Erwan

“…Estimating the evolutionary potential of quantitative traits and reliably predicting responses to selection in wild populations are important challenges in…”
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The genetic architecture of helminth-specific immune responses in a wild population of Soay sheep (Ovis aries) by Sparks, Alexandra M, Watt, Kathryn, Sinclair, Rona, Pilkington, Jill G, Pemberton, Josephine M, McNeilly, Tom N, Nussey, Daniel H, Johnston, Susan E

“…Much of our knowledge of the drivers of immune variation, and how these responses vary over time, comes from humans, domesticated livestock or laboratory…”
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Genetic architecture of inbreeding depression may explain its persistence in a population of wild red deer by Hewett, Anna M., Johnston, Susan E., Morris, Alison, Morris, Sean, Pemberton, Josephine M.

“…Inbreeding depression is of major concern in declining populations, but relatively little is known about its genetic architecture in wild populations, such as…”
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Genomic analysis reveals depression due to both individual and maternal inbreeding in a free-living mammal population by Bérénos, Camillo, Ellis, Philip A., Pilkington, Jill G., Pemberton, Josephine M.

“…There is ample evidence for inbreeding depression manifested as a reduction in fitness or fitness‐related traits in the focal individual. In many organisms,…”
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Evolution of quantitative traits in the wild: mind the ecology by Pemberton, Josephine M.

“…Recent advances in the quantitative genetics of traits in wild animal populations have created new interest in whether natural selection, and genetic response…”
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Genomic prediction in the wild: A case study in Soay sheep by Ashraf, Bilal, Hunter, Darren C., Bérénos, Camillo, Ellis, Philip A., Johnston, Susan E., Pilkington, Jill G., Pemberton, Josephine M., Slate, Jon

“…Genomic prediction, the technique whereby an individual's genetic component of their phenotype is estimated from its genome, has revolutionised animal and…”
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The Fine-Scale Landscape of Immunity and Parasitism in a Wild Ungulate Population by Albery, Gregory F, Becker, Daniel J, Kenyon, Fiona, Nussey, Daniel H, Pemberton, Josephine M

“…Abstract Spatial heterogeneity in susceptibility and exposure to parasites is a common source of confounding variation in disease ecology studies. However, it…”
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Dynamics of Phenotypic Change and the Shrinking Sheep of St. Kilda by Ozgul, Arpat, Tuljapurkar, Shripad, Benton, Tim G, Pemberton, Josephine M, Clutton-Brock, Tim H, Coulson, Tim

“…Environmental change, including climate change, can cause rapid phenotypic change via both ecological and evolutionary processes. Because ecological and…”
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