Marcy K Uyenoyama
Professor

919-660-7350

226 Bio Sci

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Research Interests: Population genetics, molecular evolution

Marcy Uyenoyama studies mechanisms of evolutionary change at the molecular and population levels. Among the questions under study include the prediction and detection of the effects of natural selection on genomic structure. A major area of research addresses the development of maximum-likelihood and Bayesian methods for inferring evolutionary processes from the pattern of molecular variation. Evolutionary processes currently under study include characterization of population structure across genomes.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. S. C. Leman, and Y. Chen, and J. E. Stajich, and M. A. F. Noor, and M.K. Uyenoyama, Likelihoods from summary statistics: Recent divergence between species, Genetics, vol. 171 (2005), pp. 1419-1436 .
2. E. Newbigin and M. K. Uyenoyama, The evolutionary dynamics of self-incompatibility systems, Trends in Genetics, vol. 21 (2005), pp. 500-505 .
3. M.K. Uyenoyama, Evolution under tight linkage to mating type, New Phytologist, vol. 165 (2005), pp. 63-70 .
4. M.K. Uyenoyama and N. Takebayashi, A simple method for computing exact probabilities of mutation numbers, Theoretical Population Biology, vol. 65 (2004), pp. 271-284 .
5. Takebayashi, N., E. Newbigin, and M.K. Uyenoyama, Maximum likelihood estimation of rates of recombination within mating-type regions, Genetics, vol. 167 (2004), pp. 2097-2109 .
6. M.K. Uyenoyama and N. Takebayashi, Genus-specific diversification of mating types, in The Evolution of Population Biology, edited by R. S. Singh and M. K. Uyenoyama (2004), pp. 254-271, Cambridge University Press .
7. M. Vallejo-Marin and M.K. Uyenoyama, On the evolutionary costs of self-incompatibility: Incomplete reproductive compensation due to pollen limitation, Evolution, vol. 58 (2004), pp. 1924-1935 .
8. M.K. Uyenoyama, Genealogy-dependent variation in viability among self-incompatibility genotypes, Theoretical Population Biology, vol. 63 (2003), pp. 281-293 .
9. N. Takebayashi, P. Brewer, E. Newbigin, and M.K. Uyenoyama, Patterns of variation within self-incompatibility loci, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 20 (2003), pp. 1778-1794 .
10. R. S. Singh and M. K. Uyenoyama, The Evolution of Population Biology (2004), Cambridge University Press .