Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
We performed a reciprocal transplant experiment to estimate "parallel" adaptation to elevation and "unique" adaptation to local sites at the same elevation, using the frog Rana temporaria in the Swiss Alps. It is important to distinguish these two processes because they have different implications for population structure and ecological specializat...
Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Predicting how social environment affects life history variation is critical to understanding if, and when, selection favors alternative life history development, especially in systems in which social interactions change over time or space. While sexual selection theory predicts that males and females should respond differently to variation in the ...
Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Recently diverged species often show incomplete reproductive isolation and subsequently experience hybridization and introgression. The plant genus Mimulus includes many such examples of closely related taxa that prove useful for studying incipient speciation. However, Sandstedt et al. show that in contrast to other Mimulus species, species of the ...
Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Adaptive radiations are often stereotypical, as populations repeatedly specialize along conserved environmental axes. Phenotypic plasticity may be similarly stereotypical, as individuals respond to environmental cues. These parallel patterns of variation, which are often consistent across traits, have led researchers to propose that plasticity can ...
Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Although most invasive species engage in mutualism, we know little about how mutualism evolves as partners colonize novel environments. Selection on cooperation and standing genetic variation for mutualism traits may differ between a mutualism's invaded and native ranges, which could alter cooperation and coevolutionary dynamics. To test for such d...
Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Natural populations are often exposed to temporally varying environments. Evolutionary dynamics in varying environments have been extensively studied, though understanding the effects of varying selection pressures remains challenging. Here we investigate how cycling between a pair of statistically related fitness landscapes affects the evolved fit...
Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
A handful of studies have investigated sexually antagonistic constraints on achieving sex-specific fitness optima, although exclusively through male-genome-limited evolution experiments. In this article, we established a female-limited X chromosome evolution experiment, where we used an X chromosome balancer to enforce the inheritance of the X thro...
Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
The distribution and abundance of polyploids has intrigued biologists since their discovery in the early 20th century. A pattern in nature that may give insight to processes that shape the distribution and abundance of polyploids is that polyploid populations are sometimes associated with peripheral habitats within the range of a species of mixed p...
Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
How can we test whether biogeographic dispersal rates coincide with geologic events? Hua and Bromham developed a model-based approach to generate a null distribution of colonization times under constant dispersal rates, overcoming a problem related to the geometry of phylogenetic trees. © 2020 The Authors. Evolution © 2020 The Society for the Study...
Published in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
The kinetic skull is a key innovation that allowed snakes to capture, manipulate, and swallow prey exclusively using their heads using the coordinated movement of eight bones. Despite these unique feeding behaviors, patterns of evolutionary integration and modularity within the feeding bones of snakes in a phylogenetic framework have yet to be addr...
