Sam Hulse

Theoretical Evolutionary Biologist, Postdoc in the Bruns Lab at UMD

[Sam Hulse @svhulse]

Our new preprint is out! We use stochastic genotype landscapes to predict the shape of evolutionary trade-off functions, and test what happens when you use this as the basis of a mutation-selection model.

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

The Emergence of Non-Linear Evolutionary Trade-offs and the Maintenance of Genetic Polymorphisms https://t.co/hNGGFYqAfo #biorxiv_evobio

[Sam Hulse @svhulse]

Having negative resistance transitivity means that a host population maintains individuals which are more susceptible to foreign pathogens than endemic, opening an ecological niche for spillover pathogens to invade. 6/

[Sam Hulse @svhulse]

Our new paper on host-pathogen coevolution and spillover (as seen at EEID and Evolution) just came out in evolution letters! 1/

https://t.co/QFGYkqD07C

[Sam Hulse @svhulse]

However, there is a catch! When the loci underlying general and specific resistance become linked, this positively correlated resistance transitivity can switch to negative. When we let linkage evolve, tight linkage between general and specific resistance is favored. 5/

[Sam Hulse @svhulse]

@acer_aceae No, tree is best plant

[Sam Hulse @svhulse]

My first paper with the Bruns lab is now out!

[Journal of Evolutionary Biology @JEvBio]

Specific resistance prevents the #evolution of general resistance and facilitates #diseaseemergence #openaccess

Hulse et al. @MEHood_AC

👉https://t.co/iXGyT0CkJq

[Sam Hulse @svhulse]

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