R. W. Ness

This study examines the demographic effects of urbanization on white clover populations globally, finding increased gene flow and no reduction in genetic diversity in urban areas.

This study examines how salt stress affects mutation rates and patterns in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii during adaptation, finding increased indel mutations and clustering under selection.

The paper infers the distribution of fitness effects of mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by analyzing frequency changes under experimental evolution and finds a leptokurtic distribution with equal positive and negative effects.

The paper examines how competition for mates influences female ornamentation and polyandry in dance flies, finding that higher female ornamentation correlates with female-biased sex ratios and increased polyandry.

The paper examines urban-rural clines in a Mendelian trait of white clover across cities, finding that winter conditions influence HCN frequency changes, with snow reducing selection pressure in colder cities.

The paper examines recombination's role in the evolution of the mating type locus in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, finding that gene conversion reduces differentiation and prevents degeneration.

The paper infers recombination rate variation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using LD patterns, finding hotspots, GC-content correlations, and evidence of linked selection.

The paper uses simulations to show that genetic drift can create phenotypic clines in urban environments, mimicking adaptive changes when traits have non-additive genetic bases.

This study constructs a recombination map for M. m. castaneus and finds conservation of recombination rate variation with M. m. domesticus, along with a positive correlation between recombination rate and genetic diversity.