Coevolution

Recent Papers

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

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

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

Coevolution Creates Complex Mosaics across Large Landscapes

Lucas D. Fernandes, Paula Lemos-Costa, Paulo R. Guimarães Jr., John N. Thompson, and Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

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

Free Access

How Does the Evolution of Universal Ecological Traits Affect Population Size? Lessons from Simple Models

Peter A. Abrams

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

Indirect Interactions Shape Selection in a Multispecies Food Web

Denon Start, Arthur E. Weis, and Benjamin Gilbert

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

Assortative Mating by an Obliquely Transmitted Local Cultural Trait Promotes Genetic Divergence: A Model

D. Justin Yeh

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

Sexual Conflict and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Coevolution of Sexually Antagonistic Host Traits with an STI

Alison M. Wardlaw and Aneil F. Agrawal

Gene-Culture Coinheritance of a Behavioral Trait

Elliot G. Aguilar and Erol Akçay

Coevolution Slows the Disassembly of Mutualistic Networks

Scott L. Nuismer, Bob Week, and Marcelo A. Aizen

Host Traits Drive Viral Life Histories across Phytoplankton Viruses

Kyle F. Edwards and Grieg F. Steward

Neutral Community Dynamics and the Evolution of Species Interactions

Marco Túlio P. Coelho and Thiago F. Rangel

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

Open Access

Coevolution between Mutualists and Parasites in Symbiotic Communities May Lead to the Evolution of Lower Virulence

Paul G. Nelson and Georgiana May

Natural History Note

Hollow Internodes Permit a Neotropical Understory Plant to Shelter Multiple Mutualistic Ant Species, Obtaining Protection and Nutrient Provisioning (Myrmecotrophy)

Alain Dejean, Frédéric Petitclerc, Arthur Compin, Frédéric Azémar,1 Bruno Corbara, Jacques H. C. Delabie, and Céline Leroy

Note

Rethinking Conventional Wisdom: Are Locally Adapted Parasites Ahead in the Coevolutionary Race?

Scott L. Nuismer

Sanctions, Partner Recognition, and Variation in Mutualism

Jeremy B. Yoder and Peter Tiffin

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

Open Access

The Role of the Environment in the Evolution of Tolerance and Resistance to a Pathogen

Michael Zeller and Jacob C. Koella

Speciation

Recent Papers

Assortative Mating in Animals and Its Role for Speciation

Tim Janicke,Lucas Marie-Orleach,Thomas G. Aubier,Charles Perrier,Edward H. Morrow

Free Access

A Minimal Model for the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient Suggests a Dominant Role for Ecological Limits

Rampal S. Etienne, Juliano Sarmento Cabral, Oskar Hagen, Florian Hartig, Allen H. Hurlbert, Loïc Pellissier, Mikael Pontarp, and David Storch

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Etienne.html

Assessing Behavioral Associations in a Hybrid Zone through Social Network Analysis: Complex Assortative Behaviors Structure Associations in a Hybrid Quail Population

David M. Zonana, Jennifer M. Gee, Eli S. Bridge, Michael D. Breed, and Daniel F. Doak

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

Time Explains Regional Richness Patterns within Clades More Often than Diversification Rates or Area

Hong Li and John J. Wiens

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

Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation

Sonal Singhal, Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky

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

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

Reconstructing the Geography of Speciation from Contemporary Biodiversity Data

Alexander Skeels and Marcel Cardillo

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

Introgression across Hybrid Zones Is Not Mediated by Large X-Effects in Green Toads with Undifferentiated Sex Chromosomes

Jörn F. Gerchen, Christophe Dufresnes, and Matthias Stöck

Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation

Sonal Singhal, Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky

The Role of Geography in Adaptive Radiation

John J. Schenk and Scott J. Steppan

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

Open Access

A Probable Case of Incipient Speciation in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders Driven by Allochrony, Habitat Use, and Female Mate Choice

R. Tucker Gilman, Kasey Fowler-Finn, and Eileen A. Hebets

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepGilman.html

Synthesis, Open Access

Coupling, Reinforcement, and Speciation

Roger K. Butlin and Carole M. Smadja

Synthesis

Mechanisms of Assortative Mating in Speciation with Gene Flow: Connecting Theory and Empirical Research

Michael Kopp, Maria R. Servedio, Tamra C. Mendelson, Rebecca J. Safran, Rafael L. Rodríguez, Mark E. Hauber, Elizabeth C. Scordato, Laurel B. Symes, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, David M. Zonana, and G. Sander van Doorn

Evolutionary Genetics

Recent Papers 

Experimental Evidence That Metamorphosis Alleviates Genomic Conflict

Debora Goedert and Ryan Calsbeek

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

Special Feature on Maladaptation

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

Jonathan A. Mee and Sam Yeaman

Free Access

Evolution of Stress-Induced Mutagenesis in the Presence of Horizontal Gene Transfer

Yoav Ram and Lilach Hadany

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

Genetic Quality Affects the Rate of Male and Female Reproductive Aging Differently in Drosophila melanogaster

Martin Brengdahl, Christopher M. Kimber, Jack Maguire-Baxter, Antonino Malacrinò, and Urban Friberg

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

Introgression across Hybrid Zones Is Not Mediated by Large X-Effects in Green Toads with Undifferentiated Sex Chromosomes

Jörn F. Gerchen, Christophe Dufresnes, and Matthias Stöck

Genetic Quality Affects the Rate of Male and Female Reproductive Aging Differently in Drosophila melanogaster

Martin Brengdahl, Christopher M. Kimber, Jack Maguire-Baxter, Antonino Malacrinò, and Urban Friberg
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecBrengdahl.html

Introgression across Hybrid Zones Is Not Mediated by Large X-Effects in Green Toads with Undifferentiated Sex Chromosomes
Jörn F. Gerchen, Christophe Dufresnes, and Matthias Stöck

Note
Chronological and Biological Age Predict Seasonal Reproductive Timing: An Investigation of Clutch Initiation and Telomeres in Birds of Known Age
Carolyn M. Bauer, Jessica L. Graham, Mikus Abolins-Abols, Britt J. Heidinger, Ellen D. Ketterson, and Timothy J. Greives
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneBauer.html

Symposium

Evolution as a Coexistence Mechanism: Does Genetic Architecture Matter?

Sebastian J. Schreiber, Swati Patel, and Casey terHorst

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarSchreiber.html

Symposium

Shared Genes but Not Shared Genetic Variation: Legume Colonization by Two Belowground Symbionts

Julia N. Ossler and Katy D. Heath

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarOssler.html

Host/Pathogen Interactions

Recent Papers

Ecological and Evolutionary Stabilities of Biotrophism, Necrotrophism, and Saprotrophism

Sayaki U. Suzuki and Akira Sasaki

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

Trait-Based Modeling of Multihost Pathogen Transmission: Plant-Pollinator Networks

Lauren L. Truitt, Scott H. McArt, Andrew H. Vaughn, and Stephen P. Ellner

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

Within-Host Priority Effects Systematically Alter Pathogen Coexistence

Patrick A. Clay, Kailash Dhir, Volker H. W. Rudolf, and Meghan A. Duffy

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebClay.html

Multiscale Immune Selection and the Transmission-Diversity Feedback in Antigenically Diverse Pathogen Systems

Thomas Holding, John Joseph Valletta, and Mario Recker

Host Dispersal Responses to Resource Supplementation Determine Pathogen Spread in Wildlife Metapopulations

Daniel J. Becker, Celine E. Snedden, Sonia Altizer, and Richard J. Hall

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctBecker.html

Open Access

Coinfection Timing Drives Host Population Dynamics through Changes in Virulence

Katherine M. Marchetto and Alison G. Power

Open Access

The Role of the Environment in the Evolution of Tolerance and Resistance to a Pathogen

Michael Zeller and Jacob C. Koella

Cannibalism and infectious disease: friends or foes?

Benjamin G. Van Allen, Forrest P. Dillemuth, Andrew J. Flick, Matthew J. Faldyn, David R. Clark, Volker H. W. Rudolf, and Bret D. Elderd
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepVanAllen.html

The Role of the Environment in the Evolution of Tolerance and Resistance to a Pathogen
Michael Zeller and Jacob C. Koella

Open Access
Quantitative Genetic Variation in, and Environmental Effects on, Pathogen Resistance and Temperature-Dependent Disease Severity in a Wild Trout
Paul Vincent Debes, Riho Gross, and Anti Vasemägi

Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugDebes.html

Open Access
Population Density, Not Host Competence, Drives Patterns of Disease in an Invaded Community
Catherine L. Searle, Michael H. Cortez, Katherine K. Hunsberger, Dylan C. Grippi, Isabella A. Oleksy, Clara L. Shaw, Solanus B. de la Serna, Chloe L. Lash, Kailash L. Dhir, and Meghan A. Duffy