Jody Hey                  Evolutionary Genetics

  Professor    -     Department of Genetics     -   Rutgers University

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Hey Lab Publications

           

Books

 

Genes, Categories and Species  Jody Hey (2001) Oxford University Press

 

 

 

 

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Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary

Edited by Jody Hey, Walter Fitch and Francisco Ayala  (2005) National Academies Press

 

 

 

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Journal Articles and Reviews

Most papers have links to abstracts at NCBI.   A number of papers can be downloaded - click on the PDF or FULL TEXT link.

2007

Hey, J., and R. Nielsen. 2007. Integration within the Felsenstein equation for improved Markov chain Monte Carlo methods in population genetics. PNAS 104:2785–2790.

Shimada, M. K., K. Panchapakesan, S. A. Tishkoff, A. Q. Nato, Jr, and J. Hey. 2007. Divergent Haplotypes and Human History as Revealed in a Worldwide Survey of X-Linked DNA Sequence Variation. Mol Biol Evol 24:687-698.

 

2006

Hey J. 2006. On the failure of modern species concepts. Trends Ecol Evol 21:447-450.

Hey J. 2006. Recent advances in assessing gene flow between diverging populations and species. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 16:592-596.

Won YJ, Wang Y, Sivasundar A, Raincrow J, Hey J. 2006. Nuclear gene variation and molecular dating of the cichlid species flock of Lake Malawi. Mol Biol Evol 23:828-837.

 

2005

Hey, J. 2005. On the Number of New World Founders: A Population Genetic Portrait of the Peopling of the Americas. PLoS Biol 3:0965-0975.  FULL TEXT

Sivasundar, A., and J. Hey. 2005. Sampling from Natural Populations with RNAi Reveals High Outcrossing and Population Structure in Caenorhabditis elegans. Current Biology 15:1598-1602.

Won, Y. J., A. Sivasundar, Y. Wang, and J. Hey. 2005. On the origin of Lake Malawi cichlid species: a population genetic analysis of divergence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:6581-6586.

Won, Y. J., and J. Hey. 2005. Divergence population genetics of chimpanzees. Mol Biol Evol 22:297-307.

2004

Hey, J., and R. Nielsen. 2004. Multilocus methods for estimating population sizes, migration rates and divergence time, with applications to the divergence of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis. Genetics 167:747-760.

Hey, J., Y.-J. Won, A. Sivasundar, R. Nielsen and J. A. Markert. 2004 Using nuclear haplotypes with microsatellites to study gene flow between recently separated populations. Molecular Ecology 13: 909-919

Hey, J. 2004. What's so hot about recombination hotspots. Public Library of Science 2:0730-0733.   FULL TEXT

2003

Hey J., Waples R.S., Arnold M.L., Butlin R.K. & Harrison R.G. 2003 Understanding and confronting species uncertainty in biology and conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 18, 597-603.

Hey, J., and C. A. Machado. 2003. The study of structured populations--new hope for a difficult and divided science. Nat Rev Genet 4:535-43.

Machado, C. A., and J. Hey. 2003. The causes of phylogenetic conflict in a classic Drosophila species group. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, Series B 270:1193-1202.

Sivasundar, A., and J. Hey. 2003. Population Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. The paradox of low polymorphism in a widespread species. Genetics 163:147-57.

Hey, J. 2003. Speciation and inversions: Chimps and humans. Bioessays 25:825-8.

2002

Ortíz-Barrientos, D., J. Reiland, J. Hey, and M. Noor. 2002. Recombination and divergence of hybridizing species. Genetica 115:167-178.

Machado, C., R. M. Kliman, J. M. Markert and J. Hey, 2002 Inferring the history of speciation from multilocus DNA sequence data: the case of Drosophila pseudoobscura and its close relatives. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 472-488.

Hey, J., and R. M. Kliman, 2002 Interactions between natural selection, recombination and gene density in the genes of Drosophila. Genetics 160: 595-608.

2001

Hey, J.  2001 The Mind of the Species Problem. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 326-329 - PDF DOWNLOAD

Harris, E. E. and J. Hey 2001 Human populations show reduced DNA sequence variation at the Factor IX locus. Current Biology 11: 774-778.- PDF DOWNLOAD

2000

Kliman, R. M., P. Andolfatto, J. A. Coyne,  F. Depaulis, M. Kreitman, A. J. Berry, J. McCarter, J. Wakeley and  J. Hey. 2000 The population genetics of the origin and divergence of the Drosophila simulans complex species. Genetics 156:1913-1931. - PDF DOWNLOAD

1999

Hey, J. and E. E. Harris. 1999 Population bottlenecks and patterns of human polymorphism. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16: 1423-1426. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Harris, E. E. and J. Hey. 1999 Human demography in the Pleistocene: do mitochondrial and nuclear genes tell the same story? Evolutionary Anthropology 8: 81-86. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Wang, R.-L., A. Stec, J. Hey, L. Lukens and J. Doebley. 1999 The limits of selection during maize domestication. Nature 398: 236-239. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Harris, E. E. and J. Hey. 1999. X chromosome evidence for ancient human histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 96: 3320-3324. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. 1999. The neutralist, the fly, and the selectionist. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14: 35-38 - PDF DOWNLOAD

1998

Hey, J. 1998  Selfish Genes, Pleiotropy and the Origin of Recombination.  Genetics 149: 2089-2097 - PDF DOWNLOAD

1997

Hilton, H.  and J. Hey. 1997. A Multilocus View of Speciation in the Drosophila virilis species group reveals complex histories and taxonomic conflicts. Genetical Research 70: 185-194. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Wang, R-L., J.  Wakeley and J. Hey. 1997 Gene flow and natural selection in the origin of Drosophila pseudoobscura and close relatives. Genetics 147: 1091-1106 - PDF DOWNLOAD

Wakeley, J. and J. Hey. 1997 Estimating Ancestral Population Parameters. Genetics 145: 847-855. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. and J. Wakeley. 1997 A coalescent estimator of the population recombination rate. Genetics 145: 833-846.- PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. 1997 Mitochondria and nuclear genes present conflicting portraits of human origins. Molecular Biology and Evolution 14: 166-172. - PDF DOWNLOAD

1996

Hilton, H. and J. Hey. 1996. DNA sequence variation at the period locus reveals the history of species and speciation events in the Drosophila virilis group.  Genetics 144: 1015-1025. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Wang, R.-L. and J. Hey. 1996. The speciation history of Drosophila pseudoobscura and close relatives: inference from DNA sequence variation at the period locus.  Genetics 144: 1113-1126. - PDF DOWNLOAD

1994

Hilton, H., R. M. Kliman and J. Hey. 1994. Using hitchhiking genes to study adaptation and divergence during speciation within the Drosophila melanogaster species complex.  Evolution 48: 1900-1913. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Kliman, R. M. and J. Hey. 1994. The effects of mutation and natural selection on codon bias in the genes of Drosophila. Genetics 137: 1049-1056. - PDF DOWNLOAD

1993

Kliman, R. M. and J. Hey. 1993. Reduced natural selection associated with low recombination in Drosophila melanogaster.  Molecular Biology and Evolution 10: 1239-1258. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. and R. M. Kliman. 1993. Population genetics and phylogenetics of DNA sequence variation at multiple loci within and among species of the Drosophila melanogaster complex. Molecular Biology and Evolution 10: 804-822. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Kliman, R. M. and J. Hey. 1993. DNA sequence variation at the period locus within and among species of the Drosophila melanogaster complex.  Genetics 133: 375-387. - PDF DOWNLOAD

1992

Hey, J. 1992. Using phylogenetic trees to study speciation and extinction. Evolution 46: 627-640.- PDF DOWNLOAD

1991

Hey, J. 1991. The structure of genealogies and the distribution of fixed differences between DNA sequence samples from natural populations.  Genetics 128: 831-840. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. 1991. A multi-dimensional coalescent process applied to multi-allelic selection models and migration models. Theoretical Population Biology 39: 30-48.

1989

Eanes, W. F., J. W. Ajioka, J. Hey and C. Wesley. 1989. Restriction map variation associated with the G6PD polymorphism in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster.  Molecular Biology and Evolution 6: 384-398.

Hey, J. 1989. Speciation via hybrid dysgenesis: negative evidence from the Drosophila affinis subgroup.  Genetica 78: 97-104.

Hey, J. 1989. The transposable portion of the genome of Drosophila algonquin is very different from that in D. melanogaster.  Molecular Biology and Evolution 6: 66-79.  PDF DOWNLOAD

<= 1987

Eanes, W. F., C. Wesley, J. Hey, D. Houle and J. W. Ajioka. 1987. The fitness consequences of P-element insertion in Drosophila melanogaster.  Genetical Research 52: 17-26.

Hey, J. and D. Houle. 1987. Habitat choice in the Drosophila affinis subgroup. Heredity 58: 463-471.

Eanes, W. F. and J. Hey. 1986. In vivo function of rare G6PD variants collected from natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster.  Genetics 113: 679-693. PDF DOWNLOAD

Eanes, W. F., J. Hey and D. Houle. 1985. Homozygous and hemizygous viability variation on the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster.  Genetics 111: 831-844.  PDF DOWNLOAD

Eanes, W. F., B. Bingham, J. Hey and D. Houle. 1985. Targeted selection experiments and enzyme polymorphism: negative evidence for octanoate selection at the G6PD locus in Drosophila melanogaster.  Genetics 109: 379-391. PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. and M. K. Gargiulo. 1985. Sex ratio changes in Leptopilina heterotoma in response to inbreeding.  Journal of Heredity 76: 209-211.


Book Chapters

Hey, J., W. M. Fitch, and F. J. Ayala. 2005. Systematics and the origin of species: an introduction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:6515-6519.

Hey, J. 2000. Anticipating scientific revolutions in evolutionary genetics. Evolutionary Biology 32: 97-111. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. H. Hilton, N. Leahy and R.-L. Wang. 1998. Testing models of speciation and extinction with phylogenetic trees of extant taxa. pp. 70-90 in Biodiversity Dynamics : Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communities. edited by M. L. McKinney. Columbia University Press.

Wakeley, J.  and J. Hey. 1998. Testing speciation models with DNA sequence data. pp 157-175 in  Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution. edited by R. DeSalle and B. Schierwater. Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel.

Hey, J. 1994. Bridging phylogenetics and population genetics with gene tree models. pp. 435-449 in Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution, edited by B. Schierwater, B. Streit, G. Wagner and R. DeSalle. Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel. PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. and R. M. Kliman. 1994. Genealogical portraits of speciation in the Drosophila melanogaster species complex. pp. 208-216 in Non-neutral evolution: Theories and Data, edited by B. Golding. Chapman and Hall, New York.


Invited Commentaries, Book Reviews, Letters, Abstracts and Non-refereed Articles

Hey, J. 2004. What's so hot about recombination hotspots. Public Library of Science 2:0730-0733.  PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. 2003. Speciation and inversions: Chimps and humans. Bioessays 25:825-8.

Nielsen, R., and J. Hey. 2003. Discussion on the Paper by Wilson, Weale and Balding. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics in Society 166:188.

Hacia, J. G. and J. Hey. 2003.  Human evolution: select your words carefully. Heredity 90: 343-344.

Kliman, R. M. and J. Hey. 2003. Hill –Robertson interference in Drosophila melanogaster : reply to Marais, Mouchiroud and Duret. Genetical Research 81: 89-90.

Hey, J. 2001. Let us appreciate evolving genes. A review of “Adaptive Evolution of Genes and Genomes” by Austin L. Hughes. Evolution 55: 2369-2370. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Noor, M. A. F., N. A. Johnson and J. Hey.  2000 Gene flow between Drosophila pseudoobscura  and D. persimilis [Commentary].  Evolution 54: 2174-2175 - PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J.  2000. Reply from J. Hey [Correspondence in ] Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 471.

Hey, J. 2000. Migration Mumbles. A review of “Migration and Colonization in Human Microevolution” by A. G. Fix, Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 15: 256

Hey, J.  2000. Human mitochondrial DNA recombination: can it be true?  [News & Comment  in] Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 15: 181-182.- PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. and E. E. Harris. 2000. The origins of modern humans still look recent [Correspondence in] Current Biology 10: R8-R9. - PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. 1999. Parasite populations: The puzzle of Plasmodium. [Dispatch in] Current Biology 9: R565-R567.- PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. 1998. Population genetics and human origins: Haplotypes are key!. [Correspondence in] Trends in Genetics 14: 303-304.- PDF DOWNLOAD

Hey, J. 1989. Evolution under the scope. A review of  “Principles of Population Genetics” by D. Hartl and A.Clark.  Trends in Genetics 5: 349

Hey, J. 1985. Speciation via hybrid dysgenesis is unlikely.  [Abstract in] Genetics 110: s75.

Hey, J. and D. Houle. 1985. Rearing Drosophila athabasca.  [short article in] Drosophila Information Service 61: 192-193.


Online, but otherwise unpublishable manuscripts 

A reduction of "Species" and a Resolution of the Species Problem

This paper represents an early attempt  (well before work began on the book,  Genes, Categories and Species) to address the species problem.  It contains a fairly full, and I still think correct, description of the reasons why some groups of related organisms deserve to be called species.   However it does not broach most of the issues raised in  Genes, Categories and Species and it bears a preoccupation with definitions of the word "species". 

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Words and Distinction

In the midst of thinking about the species problem,  I spent a fair bit of time wondering over the utility of our words, and the ways that we use words to describe things in nature that are not very distinct.  One outcome of all this was an experiment conducted over the internet.  The results of this study are in a short paper entitled "Words and Distinction" 

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