A. Devi

When can fitness epistasis be ignored in a polygenic trait at equilibrium?

The paper analyzes how fitness epistasis affects allele frequency distributions in polygenic traits under stabilizing selection and finds parameter regimes where epistasis significantly impacts frequency distributions despite minimal effects on phenotypic quantities.

The Divergence of Mean Phenotypes Under Persistent Directional Selection

The paper extends theoretical models of directional selection to account for varying mutational effects on traits, showing how variance in effects influences the relationship between mean phenotypes and population size.

Recognition of non-self is necessary to activate Drosophila's immune response against an insect parasite

The paper shows that Drosophila's immune response to parasitoid wasps requires both danger signals from wounding and a PAMP from the wasp to trigger melanization and Tep1 expression.

The impact of dominance on adaptation in changing environments

The paper studies how dominance affects adaptation in changing environments, finding that dominance's impact varies with environmental change rate and mutant fitness dynamics.

Dominance patterns in dynamic environments

The paper studies how dominance patterns affect mutant fixation probability in changing environments, finding reversed dominance patterns in fast-changing environments.