Dear colleagues, A while ago we posted a request for online resources on must-read papers in evolutionary biology, for a literature club. We received many answers in the meantime - thank you so much! Below is a summary of all answers that we received. All the best, Jana and Xiaoyan 1. *Nick Barton:* - The textbook "Evolution" by Nick Barton, with resources for exploring the literature: Barton, N. H., Briggs, D. E. G., Eisen, J. A., Goldstein, D. B., & Patel, N. H. (2007). Evolution. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. - Papers from a course named "Classics in Evolutionary Biology": Evolutionary Synthesis 1. Haldane, J. B. S. 1932. The causes of evolution. Longmans. New York. (esp. Ch. IV). 2. Fisher, R. A. 1930. The genetical theory of natural selection. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Selected Sections - Fundamental Theorem. Genetic Variation 1a. Lewontin, R. C., and J. L. Hubby. 1966. A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. II. Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genetics. 54:595-609. 1b. Sachidandam et al. 2001. A map of human genome sequence variation containing 1.42 million single nucleotide polymorphisms. 409: 928-33. 2. Wright S., Dobzhansky T., Hovanitz W. 1942 Genetics of natural populations VII The allelism of lethals in the third chromosome of Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genetics 27: 363-394. Recombination and evolution 1. Hill, W. G., and A. Robertson. 1966. The effect of linkage on limits to artificial selection. Genet. Res. 8:269-294. 2. Maynard Smith and Haigh. 1974. The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene. Genet. Res. 23: 23-35. Understanding sequence variation 1. Begun D. J., Aquadro C. F., 1992 Levels of naturally occurring DNA polymorphism correlate with recombination rate in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 356: 519-520. 2. Green R. E., Reich D., Pääbo S., 2010 A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome. Science 328: 710-722. Quantitative Genetics: variation in complex traits 1. Galton F., 1877 Typical laws of heredity. Nature 15: 492-495- 512-514- 532-533. 2. Turelli M., 1984 Heritable genetic variation via mutation-selection balance: Lerch's Zeta meets the abdominal bristle. Theor. Popul. Biol. 25: 138-193. Quantitative Genetics: finding the genes 1. Shrimpton A. E., Robertson A., 1988 The Isolation of polygenic factors controlling bristle score in Drosophila melanogaster II Distribution of third chromosome bristle effects within chromosome sections. Genetics 118: 445-459. 2. Boyle E. A., Li Y. I., Pritchard J. K., 2017 An expanded view of complex traits: from polygenic to omnigenic. Cell 169: 1177-1186. Neutral Evolution 1. Kimura, M. 1968. Evolutionary rate at the molecular level. Science. 217:624-626. 2a. Kern A. D., Hahn M. W., 2018 The Neutral Theory in Light of Natural Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution 110: 21077-6. 2b. Jensen J. D., Payseur B. A., Stephan W., Aquadro C. F., Lynch M., Charlesworth D., Charlesworth B., 2018 The importance of the Neutral Theory in 1968 and 50 years on: a response to Kern and Hahn 2018. Evolution 112: 2109-4. 2c. Ellegren & Galtier. 2016. Determinants of genetic diversity. Nature Reviews Genetics. Mutation and Genetic Variability 1. Luria, S. E., and M. Delbrück. 1943. Mutations of Bacteria from Virus Sensitivity to Virus Resistance. Genetics. 28(6):491-511. 2. Hill, W G. 1982. "Rates of Change in Quantitative Traits From Fixation of New Mutations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) 79: 142-45. Testing for selection 1. McDonald & Kreitman. 1991. Adaptive protein evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila. Nature. 2. Begun, et al. Mol. Biol. Evol. 16, 1816-1819 (1999). 3. Siddiq et al. 2016. Experimental test and refutation of a classic case of molecular adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Ecology & Evolution. The shifting balance 1. Wright, S. 1932. The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding and selection in evolution. Proceedings of the VI International Congress of Genetics: 1. pp 356-366. 2. Coyne, J.A., N.H. Barton, and M. Turelli. 1997. A critique of Wright's shifting balance theory of evolution. Evolution 51: 643-671. 3. Barton. 2016. Sewall Wright on Evolution in Mendelian Populations and the "Shifting Balance". Genetics. Evolution of Sex 1. Muller, H.J. 1964. The relation of recombination to mutational advance. Mutation Res. 1(1):2-9 2. McDonald et al. 2016. Sex speeds adaptation by altering the dynamics of molecular evolution. Nature. Kin Selection, Cooperation, and Conflict 1. Hamilton, W. D. 1964. The genetical evolution of social behaviour I. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 7:1-52. 2. Trivers, R. L. 1974 Parent-offspring conflict. American Zoologist. 14(1):249-264. Sexual Selection 1. Zahavi, A. 1975. Mate selection - a selection of a handicap. J. Theor. Biol. 53:205-214. 2. Kirkpatrick, M., and Ryan, M.J. 1991. The evolution of mating preferences and the paradox of the lek. Nature. 350:33-38. Fitness Landscapes 1. Dean, A. 1995. A Molecular Investigation of Genotype by Environment Interactions. Genetics. 139:19-33. 2. Costanzo et al. 2010. The Genetic Landscape of a Cell. Science. Speciation 1. Coyne, J. A., and H. A. Orr. 1989. Patterns of speciation in Drosophila. Evolution. 43:362-381. 2. Corbett-Detig et al. 2013. Genetic incompatibilities are widespread within species. Nature. 2. *Marcos Antezana:* Valen, L. v. 1975. Energy and Evolution. University of Chicago, Department of Biology. 3. *Remco Folkertsma:* 1. The work by Hopi Hoekstra on local adaptation and oldfield mice 2. Poelstra, J. W., Vijay, N., Bossu, C. M., Lantz, H., Ryll, B., Müller, I., ... & Wolf, J. B. (2014). The genomic landscape underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows. Science, 344(6190), 1410-1414. 4. *Joshka Kaufmann and Leslie Turner* They offer us a link to 'papers every evolutionary biologist should read', the papers are collected by Leslie Turner. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e8cb7ce4b02c4bc3aeeee4/t/5ab8fcb670a6ad55c67fcdf4/1522072758665/EvoBioClassicsRefList.pdf 5. *Sarah Stockwell* Matt Ridley collected classic papers in evolutionary biology and printed part of these papers in his book Evolution (see Matt Ridley. Evolution (Univ. of Oxford Press, 2nd edition, 2004)) "Riederer, J.M."