Reginald D. Smith

The paper examines niche construction in industrial vinegar production, showing how acetic acid bacteria evolve increased acidity tolerance through directional selection.

This paper presents a general model for analyzing two-locus assortative mating, providing closed-form expressions for linkage and identity disequilibrium in human populations.

The paper examines how inbreeding, linkage, and linkage disequilibrium affect the frequency of digenic traits in populations and applies findings to medical and natural population contexts.

The paper introduces modified effective codon numbers to analyze the causes of codon usage bias across and within organisms, showing that mutational forces drive variation between species while selection drives variation within genomes.

The paper derives exact formulas for breeding value distributions and their moments after selection, and analyzes the impact of recombination and GXE covariance changes.

The paper examines the distribution of gene-environment product interactions in quantitative traits and their impact on heritability and phenotypic variance.

The paper demonstrates the shift between linear and nonlinear dependence in linkage disequilibrium and shows how r2 values can have different implications based on this structure.

The paper provides a simplified method to calculate genetic correlations between relatives using pedigree data and path analysis.