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2009

Prasad, A., M. Croydon-Sugarman & A.D. Cutter. In review. Fitness at extreme temperatures associates with latitudinally-separated genetic groups of Caenorhabditis briggsae.

Cutter, A.D. In review. Molecular evolution inferences from the C. elegans genome. 

Cutter, A.D., W. Yan, N. Tsvetkov, S. Sunil & M.A. Felix. 2009. Molecular population genetics and phenotypic sensitivity to ethanol for a globally diverse sample of the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae. Molecular Ecology. Accepted. 

Cutter, A.D., A. Dey & R.L. Murray. 2009. Evolution of the C. elegans genomeMolecular Biology and Evolution. 26: 1199-1234. [pdf

Reinke, V. & A.D. Cutter. 2009. Germline expression influences operon organization in the C. elegans genome. Genetics. 181: 1219-1228. [pdf] [supplementary data]

2008

Cutter, A.D. 2008. Reproductive evolution: symptom of a selfing syndrome (Dispatch). Current Biology. 18: R1056-R1058. [pdf]

Dolgin, E.S., B. Charlesworth & A.D. Cutter. 2008. Population frequencies of transposable elements in selfing and outcrossing Caenorhabditis nematodes. Genetics Research. 90: 317-329. [pdf]

Cutter, A.D., J.D. Wasmuth & N.L. Washington. 2008. Patterns of molecular evolution in Caenorhabditis preclude ancient origins of selfing. Genetics. 178: 2093-2104. [pdf] [supplementary data] [F1000 review]

Cutter, A.D. 2008. Divergence times in Caenorhabditis and Drosophila inferred from direct estimates of the neutral mutation rate. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25: 778-786. [pdf] [supplementary tables]

Cutter, A.D. 2008. Multilocus patterns of polymorphism and selection across the X-chromosome of Caenorhabditis remanei. Genetics. 178: 1661-1672. [pdf] [supplementary tables]

Loewe, L. & A.D. Cutter. 2008. On the potential for extinction by Muller's ratchet in Caenorhabditis elegans. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8: 125. [pdf]

Dolgin, E.S., M.A. Felix & A.D. Cutter. 2008. Hakuna nematoda: genetic and phenotypic diversity in African isolates of Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae. Heredity. 100: 304-315. [pdf] [supplementary figures]

2007

Dolgin, E.S., B. Charlesworth, S.E. Baird & A.D. Cutter. 2007. Inbreeding and outbreeding depression in Caenorhabditis nematodes. Evolution. 61: 1339-1352. [pdf]

Royer, D.L., L. Sack, P. Wilf, C.H. Lusk, G.J. Jordan, Ü. Niinemets, I.J. Wright, M. Westoby, B. Cariglino, P.D. Coley, A.D. Cutter, K.R. Johnson, C.C. Labandeira, A.T. Moles, M.B. Palmer and F. Valladares. 2007. Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications. Paleobiology. 33: 574-589. [pdf]

LaMunyon, C., O. Bouban & A.D. Cutter. 2007. Post-copulatory sexual selection reduces genetic diversity in experimental populations of C. elegans. Journal of Heredity. 98: 67-72. [pdf]

2006

Cutter, A.D. & B. Charlesworth. 2006. Selection intensity on preferred codons correlates with overall codon usage bias in Caenorhabditis remanei. Current Biology. 16: 2053-2057. [pdf]

Cutter, A.D., J. Wasmuth & M. Blaxter. 2006. The evolution of biased codon and amino acid usage in nematode genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23: 2303-2315. [pdf] [supplementary figures]

Cutter, A.D., S.E. Baird & D. Charlesworth. 2006. Patterns of nucleotide polymorphism and the decay of linkage disequilibrium in wild populations of Caenorhabditis remanei. Genetics. 174: 901-913. [pdf]

Cutter, A.D., M.A. Felix, A. Barriere & D. Charlesworth. 2006. Patterns of nucleotide polymorphism distinguish temperate and tropical wild isolates of Caenorhabditis briggsae. Genetics. 173: 2021-2031. [pdf]

Payseur, B.A. & A.D. Cutter. 2006. Integrating patterns of polymorphism at SNPs and STRs. Trends in Genetics. 22: 424-429. [pdf]

Cutter, A.D. 2006. Nucleotide polymorphism and linkage disequilibrium in wild populations of the partial selfer Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 172: 171-184. [pdf] [supplementary table and figure]

2005

Cutter, A.D. & S. Ward. 2005. Sexual and temporal dynamics of molecular evolution in C. elegans development. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22: 178-188. [pdf] [supplementary figures]

Cutter, A.D., J.M. Good, C. Pappas, M.A. Saunders, D. Starrett, & T.J. Wheeler. 2005. Transposable element orientation bias in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 61: 733-741. [pdf] [supplementary table]

Cutter, A.D. 2005. Mutation and the experimental evolution of outcrossing in Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 18: 27-34. [pdf]

2004

Miller, M.A., A.D. Cutter, I. Yamamoto, S. Ward, & D. Greenstein. 2004. Clustered organization of reproductive genes in the C. elegans genome. Current Biology. 14: 1284-1290. [pdf] [supplementary methods and figures]

Avilés, L., J.A. Fletcher, & A.D. Cutter. 2004. The kin composition of social groups: Trading group size for degree of altruism. American Naturalist. 164: 132-144.  [pdf]

Cutter, A.D. 2004. Sperm-limited fecundity in nematodes: how many sperm are enough? Evolution. 58: 651-655. [pdf]

2003

Cutter, A.D., B.A. Payseur, T. Salcedo, A.M. Estes, J.M. Good, E. Wood, T. Hartl, H. Maughan, J. Strempel, B. Wang, A.C. Bryan, & M. Dellos. 2003. Molecular correlates of genes exhibiting RNAi phenotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genome Research. 13: 2651-2657. [pdf] [supplementary table]

Cutter, A.D. & B.A. Payseur. 2003. Selection at linked sites in the partial selfer Caenorhabditis elegans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 20: 665-673. [pdf]

Cutter, A.D. & B.A. Payseur. 2003. Rates of deleterious mutation and the evolution of sex in Caenorhabditis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 16: 812-822. [pdf]

Cutter, A.D., L. Avilés, & S. Ward. 2003. The proximate determinants of sex ratio in C. elegans populations. Genetical Research. 81: 91-102. [pdf]

2002

Payseur, B.A., A.D. Cutter, & M.W. Nachman. 2002. Searching for evidence of positive selection in the human genome using patterns of microsatellite variability. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 1143-1153. [pdf]

Avilés, L., P. Abbot, & A.D. Cutter. 2002. Population ecology, nonlinear dynamics, and social evolution. I. associations among nonrelatives. American Naturalist. 159: 115-127. [pdf]

1998-2001

Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K. Johnson, P.D. Coley, & A.D. Cutter. 2001. Insect herbivory, plant defense, and early Cenozoic climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 98: 6221-6226. [pdf]

Avilés, L., J. McCormack, A. Cutter, & T. Bukowski. 2000. Precise, highly female-biased sex ratios in a social spider. Proceedings: Biological Sciences (Royal Society of London). 267: 1445-1449. [pdf]

King, J.R., A.N. Andersen, & A.D. Cutter. 1998. Response of rainforest ant communities in Australia's humid tropics to disturbance: validation of the functional group model. Biodiversity and Conservation 7: 1627-1638. [pdf]

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