Refereed Publications
M. F. Westphal, M. P. LeMaster, and S. Estes. Bivariate analysis of correlated color traits in garter snakes II: selection and population differentiation. Submitted to Evolution.
Estes, S., and H. Teotónio. The experimental study of reverse evolution. In Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications. T. Garland, Jr. and M. R. Rose (eds.). Univ. of California Press. (In press.)
Estes, S., and S. J. Arnold. 2007. Resolving the paradox of stasis: models with stabilizing selection explain evolutionary divergence on all timescales. American Naturalist 169: 227-244. pdf
Estes, S., and P. C. Phillips. 2006. Variation in pleiotropy and the mutational underpinnings of the G-matrix. Evolution 60: 2655-60. pdf
Ajie, B.C., S. Estes, M. Lynch, and P. C. Phillips. 2005. Behavioral degradation under mutation accumulation. Genetics 170: 655-660. pdf
Estes, S., B. C. Ajie, M. Lynch, and P. C. Phillips. 2005. Spontaneous mutational correlations for life-history, morphological, and behavioral characters in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 170: 645-654. pdf
Denver, D. R., S. Feinberg, S. Estes, W. K. Thomas, and M. Lynch. 2005. Mutation rates, spectra, and hotspots in mismatch repair-deficient Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 170: 107-113. pdf
Denver, D. R., K. Morris, A. Kewalramani, K. E. Harris, A. Chow, S. Estes, M.Lynch, and W. K. Thomas. 2004. Abundance, distribution and mutation rates of homopolymeric nucleotide runs in the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans. J. Mol. Evol. 58: 587-595. pdf
Estes, S., P. C. Phillips, D. R. Denver, W. K. Thomas, and M. Lynch. 2004. Mutation accumulation in populations of varying size: Implications for the distribution of mutational effects on fitness. Genetics166: 1269-1279. pdf
Estes, S., and M. Lynch. 2003. Rapid fitness recovery in mutationally degraded lines of Caenorhabditis elegans. Evolution 57: 1022-1030. pdf
Manuscripts in Prep
M. F. Westphal and S. Estes. Quantitative genetics meets the Evolutionarily Significant Unit:The case of the endangered San Francisco Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia.
C. Friesen, S. J. Arnold, R. T. Mason, and S. Estes. Multiple paternity and natural patterns of sperm precedence in the red-sided garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis.
S. Estes, C. A. Palmer, J. Anderson, P. C. Phillips and D. R. Denver. Compensatory evolution response at phenotypic, transcription and nucleotide levels in natural mutant lines of C. elegans.