Adaptation

Recent Papers 

A Comparative Test for Divergent Adaptation: Inferring Speciation Drivers from Functional Trait Divergence

Sean A. S. Anderson and Jason T. Weir

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Anderson.html

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Evolution of Reproduction Periods in Seasonal Environments

Zepeng Sun, Kalle Parvinen, Mikko Heino, Johan A. J. Metz, André M. de Roos, and Ulf Dieckmann

Male-Male Competition Causes Parasite-Mediated Sexual Selection for Local Adaptation

Miguel Gómez-Llano, Aaditya Narasimhan, and Erik I. Svensson

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Gomez-Llano.html

The Origin and Spread of Locally Adaptive Seasonal Camouflage in Snowshoe Hares

Matthew R. Jones, L. Scott Mills, Jeffrey D. Jensen, and Jeffrey M. Good

Transformational Mimicry in a Myrmecomorphic Spider

Stano Pekár, Yun-Yun Tsai, and Radek Michalko

Selection and Constraints in the Ecomorphological Adaptive Evolution of the Skull of Living Canidae (Carnivora, Mammalia)

Fabio Andrade Machado

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Metabolic Rate Interacts with Resource Availability to Determine Individual Variation in Microhabitat Use in the Wild

Sonya K. Auer, Ronald D. Bassar, Daniel Turek, Graeme J. Anderson, Simon McKelvey, John D. Armstrong, Keith H. Nislow, Helen K. Downie, Thomas A. J. Morgan, Darryl McLennan, and Neil B. Metcalfe

Survival Benefits of Group Living in a Fluctuating Environment

Sarah Guindre-Parker and Dustin R. Rubenstein

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Guindre-Parker.html

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

The Adaptive Geometry of Trees Revisited

Thomas J. Givnish

Adaptive Maternal Investment in the Wild? Links between Maternal Growth Trajectory and Offspring Size, Growth, and Survival in Contrasting Environments

Tim Burton, Njal Rollinson, Simon McKelvey, David C. Stewart, John D. Armstrong, and Neil B. Metcalfe

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Burton.html

Belowground Competition Can Influence the Evolution of Root Traits

Sara M. Colom and Regina S. Baucom

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Colom.html

SYNTHESIS

Context Dependence of Local Adaptation to Abiotic and Biotic Environments: A Quantitative and Qualitative Synthesis

Ryan D. Briscoe Runquist, Amanda J. Gorton, Jeremy B. Yoder, Nicholas J. Deacon, Jake J. Grossman, Shan Kothari, Marta P. Lyons, Seema N. Sheth, Peter Tiffin, and David A. Moeller

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Briscoe-Runquist.html

SYNTHESIS

Local Adaptation to Biotic Interactions: A Meta-analysis across Latitudes

Anna L. Hargreaves, Rachel M. Germain, Megan Bontrager, Joshua Persi, and Amy L. Angert

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Hargreaves.html

Evolution Transforms Pushed Waves into Pulled Waves

Philip Erm and Ben L. Phillips

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Erm.html

Gene Flow Limits Adaptation along Steep Environmental Gradients

Judith C. Bachmann, Alexandra Jansen van Rensburg, Maria Cortazar-Chinarro, Anssi Laurila, and Josh Van Buskirk

NATURAL HISTORY NOTE

Transitions between the Terrestrial and Epiphytic Habit Drove the Evolution of Seed-Aerodynamic Traits in Orchids

Xu-Li Fan, Guillaume Chomicki, Kai Hao, Qiang Liu, Ying-Ze Xiong, Susanne S. Renner, Jiang-Yun Gao, and Shuang-Quan Huang

ORCIDs: Fan, https://orci

NOTE

Evolutionary Rescue from a Wave of Biological Invasion

J. David Van Dyken

The Evolution of Immigration Strategies Facilitates Niche Expansion by Divergent Adaptation in a Structured Metapopulation Model

Éva Kisdi, Helene C. Weigang, and Mats Gyllenberg

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Kisdi.html

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Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

Andrew D. Clark, Dominik Deffner, Kevin Laland, John Odling-Smee, and John Endler

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Why Do Phytoplankton Evolve Large Size in Response to Grazing?

Pedro Branco, Martijn Egas, Spencer R. Hall, and Jef Huisman

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Branco.html

Meta-analysis Shows That Rapid Phenotypic Change in Angiosperms in Response to Environmental Change Is Followed by Stasis

Lucas D. Gorné and Sandra Díaz

Introduction to Special Feature on Maladaptation

Understanding Maladaptation by Uniting Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives

Steven P. Brady, Daniel I. Bolnick, Rowan D. H. Barrett, Lauren Chapman, Erika Crispo, Alison M. Derry, Christopher G. Eckert, Dylan J. Fraser, Gregor F. Fussmann, Andrew Gonzalez, Frederic Guichard, Thomas Lamy, Jeffrey Lane, Andrew G. McAdam, Amy E. M. Newman, Antoine Paccard, Bruce Robertson, Gregor Rolshausen, Patricia M. Schulte, Andrew M. Simons, Mark Vellend, and Andrew Hendry

Free Access, Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladaptive Shifts in Life History in a Changing Environment

Olivier Cotto, Linnea Sandell, Luis-Miguel Chevin, and Ophélie Ronce

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugCotto.html

Free Access, Special Feature on Maladaptation

Maladapted Prey Subsidize Predators and Facilitate Range Expansion

Mark C. Urban, Alice Scarpa, Justin M. J. Travis, and Greta Bocedi

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Urban.html

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Seed Masting Causes Fluctuations in Optimum Litter Size and Lag Load in a Seed Predator

Andrew G. McAdam, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, and Jeffrey E. Lane

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Phenotypic Plasticity and Local Adaptation in a Wild Hibernator Evaluated through Reciprocal Translocation

Jeffrey E. Lane, Zenon J. Czenze, Rachel Findlay-Robinson, and Erin Bayne

(In)exhaustible Suppliers for Evolution? Epistatic Selection Tunes the Adaptive Potential of Nongenetic Inheritance

Etienne Rajon and Sylvain Charlat

Pulsed Immigration Events Can Facilitate Adaptation to Harsh Sink Environments

James H. Peniston, Michael Barfield, and Robert D. Holt

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Peniston.html

Phenotype-Environment Matching Predicts Both Positive and Negative Effects of Intraspecific Variation

Christopher J. Dibble and Volker H. W. Rudolf

Biotic Interactions Contribute to the Geographic Range Limit of an Annual Plant: Herbivory and Phenology Mediate Fitness beyond a Range Margin

John W. Benning, Vincent M. Eckhart, Monica A. Geber, and David A. Moeller

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneBenning.html

Adaptive Differences in Circadian Clock Gene Expression Patterns and Photoperiodic Diapause Induction in Nasonia vitripennis

Elena Dalla Benetta, Leo W. Beukeboom, and Louis van de Zande

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneDallaBenetta.html

Free Access, Synthesis

A Practical Guide to the Study of Distribution Limits

Yvonne Willi and Josh Van Buskirk

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneWilli.html

Historical Comment

Revisiting a Key Innovation in Evolutionary Biology: Felsenstein’s “Phylogenies and the Comparative Method”

Raymond B. Huey, Theodore Garland Jr., and Michael Turelli

Free Access

The Evolutionary Ecology of Metamorphosis

Hanna ten Brink, André M. de Roos, and Ulf Dieckmann

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayTenBrink.html

American Society of Naturalists Address

The Snail’s Charm

Kathleen Donohue

Evolutionary Consequences of Sex-Specific Selection in Variable Environments: Four Simple Models Reveal Diverse Evolutionary Outcomes

Tim Connallon, Shefali Sharma, and Colin Olito

Ecological Genetic Conflict: Genetic Architecture Can Shift the Balance between Local Adaptation and Plasticity

Olof Leimar, Sasha R. X. Dall, John M. McNamara, Bram Kuijper, and Peter Hammerstein

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanLeimar.html

Open Access

Biophysical Modeling of Water Economy Can Explain Geographic Gradient of Body Size in Anurans

Sidney F. Gouveia, Rafael P. Bovo, Juan G. Rubalcaba, Fernando Rodrigues Da Silva, Natan M. Maciel, Denis V. Andrade, and Pablo Ariel Martinez

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanGouveia.html

Population Variation, Environmental Gradients, and the Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Defense against Herbivory

Philip G. Hahn, Anurag A. Agrawal, Kira I. Sussman, and John L. Maron

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanHahn.html

American Society of Naturalists Address

From the Past to the Future: Considering the Value and Limits of Evolutionary Prediction

Ruth G. Shaw