Macroevolution

Open Access, Note

Detecting the Signature of Body Mass Evolution in the Broad-Scale Architecture of Food Webs

John P. DeLong

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

High Preservation Potential of Paleogeographic Range Size Distributions in Deep Time

Simon A. F. Darroch, Michelle M. Casey, Gwen S. Antell, Amy Sweeney, and Erin E. Saupe

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

Mammal Community Structure through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Danielle Fraser and S. Kathleen Lyons

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

Fabio Andrade Machado

Evolutionary Pathways to Communal and Cooperative Breeding in Carnivores

Valentine Federico, Dominique Allainé, Jean-Michel Gaillard, and Aurélie Cohas

Why Are There So Many Flowering Plants? A Multiscale Analysis of Plant Diversification

Tania Hernández-Hernández and John J. Wiens

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

Open Access

Revisiting a Landmark Study System: No Evidence for a Punctuated Mode of Evolution in Metrarabdotos

Kjetil Lysne Voje, Emanuela Di Martino, and Arthur Porto

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Voje.html

Does Evolutionary History Correlate with Contemporary Extinction Risk by Influencing Range Size Dynamics?

Andrew J. Tanentzap, Javier Igea, Matthew G. Johnston, and Matthew J. Larcombe

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

Developmental Constraints Do Not Influence Long-Term Phenotypic Evolution of Marsupial Forelimbs as Revealed by Interspecific Disparity and Integration Patterns

Alberto Martín-Serra and Roger B. J. Benson

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

Open Access, Symposium

Memory in Trait Macroevolution

Emma E. Goldberg and Jasmine Foo

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

Wasp Waist and Flight: Convergent Evolution in Wasps Reveals a Link between Wings and Body Shapes

Adrien Perrard

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Perrard.html

Macroevolutionary Origin and Adaptive Function of a Polymorphic Female Signal Involved in Sexual Conflict

Beatriz Willink, M. Catherine Duryea, and Erik I. Svensson

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Willink.html

Consistent Associations between Body Size and Hidden Contrasting Color Signals across a Range of Insect Taxa

Karl Loeffler-Henry, Changku Kang, and Thomas N. Sherratt

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

Macroevolutionary Patterning in Glucocorticoids Suggests Different Selective Pressures Shape Baseline and Stress-Induced Levels

Maren N. Vitousek, Michele A. Johnson, Cynthia J. Downs, Eliot T. Miller, Lynn B. Martin, Clinton D. Francis, Jeremy W. Donald, Matthew J. Fuxjager, Wolfgang Goymann, Michaela Hau, Jerry F. Husak, Bonnie K. Kircher, Rosemary Knapp, Laura A. Schoenle, and Tony D. Williams

Historical Perspective

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

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

Detecting Mosaic Patterns in Macroevolutionary Disparity

Caroline Parins-Fukuchi

Speciation Rate Is Independent of the Rate of Evolution of Morphological Size, Shape, and Absolute Morphological Specialization in a Large Clade of Birds

Nicholas M. A. Crouch and Robert E. Ricklefs

Niches

Recent Papers 

Tolerance of novel toxins through generalized mechanisms: simulating gradual host shifts of butterflies

Kristin L Sikkink, Reilly Hostager, Megan E Kobiela, Nathan Fremling, Katherine Johnston, Amod Zambre, and Emilie C. Snell-Rood

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Sikkink.html

Synthesis

Context dependence of local adaptation to abiotic and biotic environments: a quantitative and qualitative synthesis

Ryan 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 and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Briscoe-Runquist.html

Synthesis

Local adaptation to biotic interactions: a meta-analysis across latitudes

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

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

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

Free Access

Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

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

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Clark.html

Free Access

Patch Size as a Niche Dimension: Aquatic Insects Behaviorally Partition Enemy-Free Space across Gradients of Patch Size

William J. Resetarits Jr., Matthew R. Pintar, Jason R. Bohenek, and Tyler M. Breech

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Resetarits.html

A Grinnellian Niche Perspective on Species-Area Relationships

Jorge Soberón

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Soberon.html

On the Consequences of the Interdependence of Stabilizing and Equalizing Mechanisms

Chuliang Song, György Barabás, and Serguei Saavedra

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Song.html

Note, Open Access

Omnivory in Bees: Elevated Trophic Positions among All Major Bee Families

Shawn A. Steffan, Prarthana S. Dharampal, Bryan N. Danforth, Hannah R. Gaines-Day, Yuko Takizawa, and Yoshito Chikaraishi

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Steffan.html

Pulsed Immigration Events Can Facilitate Adaptation to Harsh Sink Environments

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

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

Open Access

Ecological Release of the Anna’s Hummingbird during a Northern Range Expansion

C. J. Battey

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Battey.html

Grow Where You Thrive, or Where Only You Can Survive? An Analysis of Performance Curve Evolution in a Clade with Diverse Habitat Affinities

Silas B. Tittes, Joseph F. Walker, Lorena Torres-Martínez, and Nancy C. Emery

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

American Society of Naturalists Presidential Address

The Snail’s Charm

Kathleen Donohue

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

The Role of Pleiotropy in the Evolutionary Maintenance of Positive Niche Construction
Rebecca H. Chisholm, Brian D. Connelly, Benjamin Kerr, and Mark M. Tanaka
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyChisholm-A.html

Frequency Dependence and Ecological Drift Shape Coexistence of Species with Similar Niches
Erik I. Svensson, Miguel A. Gómez-Llano, Anais Rivas Torres, and Hanna M. Bensch
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneSvensson.html

Testing Range-Limit Hypotheses Using Range-Wide Habitat Suitability and Occupancy for the Scarlet Monkeyflower (Erythranthe cardinalis)
Amy L. Angert, Matthew Bayly, Seema N. Sheth, and John R. Paul
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarAngert-A.html

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Thermal Niche Partitioning
Daniel J. Smith and Priyanga Amarasekare
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarSmith-A.html

Life-History Traits Evolved Jointly with Climatic Niche and Disturbance Regime in the Genus Leucadendron (Proteaceae)
Jeanne Tonnabel, Frank M. Schurr, Florian Boucher, Wilfried Thuiller, Julien Renaud, Emmanuel J. P. Douzery, and Ophélie Ronce
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebTonnabel-A.html

Toward a Periodic Table of Niches, or Exploring the Lizard Niche Hypervolume
Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Nicolás Pelegrin, Daniel B. Fitzgerald, and Kirk O. Winemiller
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/NovPianka.html

Microhabitat and Climatic Niche Change Explain Patterns of Diversification among Frog Families
Daniel S. Moen and John J. Wiens
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyMoen.html

Open Access
A Parent-Offspring Trade-Off Limits the Evolution of an Ontogenetic Niche Shift
Hanna ten Brink and André M. de Roos
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyTenBrink.html