Natural Selection

Recent Papers

Fledging Mass Is Color Morph Specific and Affects Local Recruitment in a Wild Bird

Chiara Morosinotto, Jon E. Brommer, Atte Lindqvist, Kari Ahola, Esa Aaltonen, Teuvo Karstinen, and Patrik Karell

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

Predicting Multivariate Responses of Sexual Dimorphism to Direct and Indirect Selection

Changde Cheng (成常德) and David Houle

Blurb and Chinese abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Cheng.html

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

Fabio Andrade Machado

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

Stochastic Dynamics of Three Competing Clones: Conditions and Times for Invasion, Coexistence, and Fixation

Sylvain Billiard and Charline Smadi

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

Integrating Fitness Components Reveals That Survival Costs Outweigh Other Benefits and Costs of Group Living in Two Closely Related Species

Lyanne Brouwer, Andrew Cockburn, and Martijn van de Pol

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

Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

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

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

Limiting Similarity? The Ecological Dynamics of Natural Selection among Resources and Consumers Caused by Both Apparent and Resource Competition

Mark A. McPeek

Lifetime Fitness in Wild Female Baboons: Trade-Offs and Individual Heterogeneity in Quality

Emily M. McLean, Elizabeth A. Archie, and Susan C. Alberts

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

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

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

Etienne Rajon and Sylvain Charlat

Individual and Population Differences Shape Species Interactions and Natural Selection

Denon Start

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Unpacking Conditional Neutrality: Genomic Signatures of Selection on Conditionally Beneficial and Conditionally Deleterious Mutations

Jonathan A. Mee and Sam Yeaman

Why So Variable: Can Genetic Variance in Flowering Thresholds Be Maintained by Fluctuating Selection?

Mark Rees and Stephen P. Ellner

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

Open Access

Fitness Consequences of Female Alternative Reproductive Tactics in House Mice (Mus musculus domesticus)

Manuela Ferrari, Anna K. Lindholm, and Barbara König

Summary & photo: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanFerrari.html

Historical Comment

Divergent Uses of “Parallel Evolution” during the History of The American Naturalist

Yoel E. Stuart

American Society of Naturalists Address

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

Ruth G. Shaw