Published Manuscripts

Pilkington M. M., Wilder J.A., Mendez F., Cox M. P., Woerner A., Angui T., Kingan S., Mobasher Z., Batini C., Destro-Bisol G., Soodyall H., Strassmann B., and Hammer M. F. 2008. Contrasting signatures of population growth for mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes among human populations in Africa. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25(3):517-525.

 Garrigan, D., Kingan, S.B., Pilkington, M.M., Wilder, J.A., Cox, M.P., Soodyall, H., Strassmann, B., Destro-Bisol, G., de Knijff, P., Novelletto, A., Friedlaender, J. and M.F. Hammer. 2007. Inferring human population sizes, divergence times, and rates of gene flow from mitochondrial, X and Y chromosome resequencing data. Genetics, 177(4):2195-2207.

Stump, A.D., Pombi, M, Goeddel, L., Kayondo, Wilder, J.A., Della Torre, A. and N.J. Besansky. 2007. Genetic exchange in 2La inversion heterokaryotypes of Anopheles gambiae. Insect Molecular Biology, 16(6):703-709.

Wilder, J.A. and M.F. Hammer.  2007. Extraordinary population structure among the Baining of New Britain. Genes, Language, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific (J.S. Friedlaender, ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp 199-207.

Brown, B.T.*, A. Woerner and J.A. Wilder. 2007. Ascertainment bias and the pattern of nucleotide diversity at the human ALDH2 locus in a Japanese population. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 64(3):375-385.

Brisson, J.A., J.A. Wilder and H. Hollocher. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of the cardini group of Drosophila with respect to changes in pigmentation. Evolution, 60:1228-1241.

Garrigan, D., Z. Mobasher, S. Kingan, J.A. Wilder and M.F. Hammer. 2005. Deep haplotype divergence and long-range linkage disequilibrium at Xp21.1 provide evidence that humans descend from a structured ancestral population. Genetics, 170(4):1849-1856.

Garrigan, D., Z. Mobasher, T. Severson,  J.A. Wilder and M. F. Hammer. 2005. Evidence for archaic Asian ancestry on the human X chromosome. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22(2):189-192.

Wilder, J.A. and M.F. Hammer. 2004. The European ACP1*C allele has recessive deleterious effects on early life viability. Human Biology, 76(6):817-835.

Wilder, J.A., Z. Mobasher and M.F. Hammer. 2004. Genetic evidence for unequal effective population sizes of human females and males. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21(11):2047-2057.

Wilder, J.A., S. Kingan, Z. Mobasher, M. Metni Pilkington and M. F. Hammer. 2004. Global patterns of human mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome structure are not influenced by higher migration rates of females versus males. Nature Genetics,  36(10):1122-1125.

Wilder, J.A., M.L. Spangler, E. Dyreson, R. Gupta, A.S. Wilder and H. Hollocher. 2004. Contrasting modes of natural selection acting on pigmentation genes in the Drosophila dunni subgroup. Journal of Experimental Zoology B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 302B(5): 469-482.

Hammer, M.F.,  D. Garrigan, E. Wood, J.A. Wilder, Z. Mobasher, A. Bigham, J.G. Krenz and M.W. Nachman. 2004. Heterogeneous patterns of variation among multiple human X-linked loci: the possible role of diversity-reducing selection in non-Africans. Genetics,167(4):1841-1853.

Wilder, J.A. and H. Hollocher. 2003. Recent radiation of endemic Caribbean Drosophila of the dunni subgroup inferred from multilocus DNA sequence variation. Evolution, 57(11):2566-2579.

Hammer, M.F., F. Blackmer, D. Garrigan, M.W. Nachman and J.A. Wilder. 2003. Human population structure and its effects on sampling Y chromosome sequence variation. Genetics, 164(4):1295-1509.

Sainz, A., J.A. Wilder, M. Wolf and H. Hollocher. 2003. Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans rescue strains produce fit offspring, despite divergent centromere-specific histone alleles. Heredity, 91(1):28-35.

Bridgham, J., J.A. Wilder, H. Hollocher and A. Johnson. 2003. All in the family: evolutionary and functional relationships among death receptors. Cell Death and Differentiation, 12(1):19-25.

Wilder, J.A., T. Diaz, R.J.W. O’Neill, J. Kenney and H. Hollocher. 2002. Characterization and isolation of novel microsatellites from the Drosophila dunni subgroup. Genetical Research, 80(3):177-185.

Wilder, J.A. and H. Hollocher. 2001.  Mobile elements and the genesis of microsatellites in Dipterans.  Molecular Biology and Evolution, 18(3):384-392

*denotes Williams College undergraduate