Adam Eyre‐Walker

This paper shows that molecular genetic diversity poorly predicts adaptive potential, using evolvability as a measure of heritable variation across species.

The paper tests whether prokaryotic accessory genes are adaptive by analyzing the ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous diversity in two bacterial species.

The paper examines interspecific variation in evolvability and heritability across species using phylogenetic models and finds substantial evolvability differences, particularly between plants and animals.

The paper analyzes de novo mutations in humans to show large-scale mutation rate variation and its relationship with divergence and diversity, finding biased gene conversion weakens divergence-mutation correlations.