Spatial Population Expansion Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation in an Experimental Prisoner’s Dilemma

J. David Van Dyken , Melanie J.I. Müller , Keenan M.L. Mack , Michael M. Desai
Current Biology 23 ( 10) 919 -923

84
2013
Higher-fitness yeast genotypes are less robust to deleterious mutations.

Milo S. Johnson , Alena Martsul , Sergey Kryazhimskiy , Michael M. Desai
Science 366 ( 6464) 490 -493

15
2019
Modular epistasis and the compensatory evolution of gene deletion mutants

José I. Rojas Echenique , Sergey Kryazhimskiy , Alex N. Nguyen Ba , Michael M. Desai
PLOS Genetics 15 ( 2) e1007958

37
2019
Phenotypic and molecular evolution across 10,000 generations in laboratory budding yeast populations

Milo S. Johnson , Shreyas Gopalakrishnan , Juhee Goyal , Megan E. Dillingham
bioRxiv

40
2020
The speed of evolution and maintenance of variation in asexual populations.

Michael M. Desai , Daniel S. Fisher , Andrew W. Murray
Current Biology 17 ( 5) 385 -394

335
2007
Fate of a mutation in a fluctuating environment.

Ivana Cvijović , Benjamin H. Good , Elizabeth R. Jerison , Michael M. Desai
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 ( 36) 201505406

93
2015
Crowded growth leads to the spontaneous evolution of semistable coexistence in laboratory yeast populations

Evgeni M. Frenkel , Michael J. McDonald , J. David Van Dyken , Katya Kosheleva
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 ( 36) 11306 -11311

31
2015
Evolution Can Favor Antagonistic Epistasis

Michael M. Desai , Daniel Weissman , Marcus W. Feldman
Genetics 177 ( 2) 1001 -1010

46
2007
The polymorphism frequency spectrum of finitely many sites under selection.

Michael M. Desai , Joshua B. Plotkin
Genetics 180 ( 4) 2175 -2191

32
2008
Clonal Interference, Multiple Mutations and Adaptation in Large Asexual Populations

Craig A. Fogle , James L. Nagle , Michael M. Desai
Genetics 180 ( 4) 2163 -2173

107
2008
Genetic Variation and the Fate of Beneficial Mutations in Asexual Populations

Gregory I. Lang , David Botstein , Michael M. Desai
Genetics 188 ( 3) 647 -661

161
2011
The Balance Between Mutators and Nonmutators in Asexual Populations

Michael M. Desai , Daniel S. Fisher
Genetics 188 ( 4) 997 -1014

59
2011
The Structure of Genealogies in the Presence of Purifying Selection: A "Fitness-Class Coalescent"

Aleksandra M. Walczak , Lauren E. Nicolaisen , Joshua B. Plotkin , Michael M. Desai
Genetics 190 ( 2) 753 -779

56
2012
Beneficial Mutation-Selection Balance and the Effect of Linkage on Positive Selection

Michael M. Desai , Daniel S. Fisher
Genetics 176 ( 3) 1759 -1798

421
2007
Dynamic mutation-selection balance as an evolutionary attractor

Sidhartha Goyal , Daniel J. Balick , Elizabeth R. Jerison , Richard A. Neher
Genetics 191 ( 4) 1309 -1319

100
2012
Genetic Diversity and the Structure of Genealogies in Rapidly Adapting Populations

Michael M. Desai , Aleksandra M. Walczak , Daniel S. Fisher
Genetics 193 ( 2) 565 -585

100
2013
The Repertoire and Dynamics of Evolutionary Adaptations to Controlled Nutrient-Limited Environments in Yeast

David Gresham , Michael M. Desai , Cheryl M. Tucker , Harry T. Jenq
PLoS Genetics 4 ( 12) e1000303

380
2008
Pervasive genetic hitchhiking and clonal interference in forty evolving yeast populations

Gregory I. Lang , Daniel P. Rice , Mark J. Hickman , Erica Sodergren
Nature 500 ( 7464) 571 -574

438
2013
Experimental Studies of Evolutionary Dynamics in Microbes

Ivana Cvijović , Alex N. Nguyen Ba , Michael M. Desai
Trends in Genetics 34 ( 9) 693 -703

18
2018
Distortions in Genealogies due to Purifying Selection and Recombination

Lauren E. Nicolaisen , Michael M. Desai
Genetics 195 ( 1) 221 -230

38
2013