Quantitative Genetics

Recent Papers

Beyond Brownian motion and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process: Stochastic diffusion models for the evolution of quantitative characters

Simone P. Blomberg, Suren Rathnayake, and Cheyenne Moreau

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

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

The Critical Role of Infectious Disease in Compensatory Population Growth in Response to Culling

Eleanor Tanner, Andy White, Peter W. W. Lurz, Christian Gortázar, Iratxe Díez-Delgado, and Mike Boots

American Society of Naturalists Address

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

Ruth G. Shaw

Early Life Stress Strengthens Trait Covariance: A Plastic Response That Results in Reduced Flexibility

Loren Merrill and Jennifer L. Grindstaff

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

Environmental Stress Increases the Magnitude of Nonadditive Genetic Variation in Offspring Fitness in the Frog Crinia georgiana

Tabitha S. Rudin-Bitterli, Nicola J. Mitchell, and Jonathan P. Evans

Female Life-History Trade-Offs and the Maintenance of Genetic Variation in Drosophila melanogaster

Devin Arbuthnott

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