Research project 9: The evolution of inclusive heredity through the genomic interactions of symbionts
…to test their theoretical predictions. They will use artificial microbiomes varying in their degree of microbial community deficiency and test whether the developmental consequence of these differentially deficient microbial communities…
read moreIs social transmission a forgotten force in coevolution?
…this problem for prey as many predators can (potentially) learn from an encounter with a single prey individual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnjyviXKmrI One of the characteristics of antagonistic coevolution…
read moreDomestication and Agriculture are the Outcome of Plant Gene-Human Culture Coevolution
…Cultural Evolution, Gene-Culture Co-Evolution, and Cultural Niche Construction. Hum Ecol. 47(4):483–97. [download pdf] Arie Altman (Professor of horticulture and agricultural biotechnology at the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and…
read moreAdaptive trends and parallel evolution generated by niche construction
…Publications Niche construction affects the variability and strength of natural selection. [download PDF] Clark AD, Deffner D, Laland KN, Odling-Smee J and Endler J. 2019. The American Naturalist DOI:…
read moreGetting into the weeds: Individual plasticity and adaptive variation
…JM, McCormick MI & Munday PL. 2012. Nat Clim Change 2:858-861. [pdf] 8. Salinas S & Munch SB. 2012. Ecol Lett 15:159-163. [pdf] 9. Sultan SE. 2017. Interface Focus 7:20170009….
read morePlasticity and adaptive radiation in Anolis lizards
…through comparative gene expression analysis in long bone growth zones. Publications Developmental plasticity in reptiles: Insights from temperature‐dependent gene expression in wall lizard embryos. [download PDF] Feiner N, Rago…
read moreMacro-evolutionary dynamics of niche construction
…social structures [download PDF] Brush ER, Krakauer DC, Flack JC. 2018. Sci Adv 4(1):e1603311. Control of finite critical behaviour in a small-scale social system. [download PDF] Daniels BC, Krakauer…
read moreA new evolutionary cause, and some implications
…bit unfair. Advocates of evo-devo typically don’t offer novel population-genetic causes (and if they did, wouldn’t Lynch simply claim them on behalf of population genetics?). Rather, they argue for an…
read moreAn experimental test of plasticity-led evolution
…EES expectation) best account for evolutionary change in salt- and freshwater populations. Publications Replicated evolutionary inhibition of a complex ancestral behaviour in an adaptive radiation. [download PDF] Foster SA,…
read moreAncestral plasticity paves the way for evolutionary novelty in spadefoot toads
…AJ, Pfennig DW. 2018. Morphological novelty emerges from pre-existing phenotypic plasticity. Nat Ecol Evol 2:1289-1297. [download pdf] To learn more about how this study came about, read our…
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