Evolutionary Dynamics

Recent Papers

Miniaturization, Genome Size, and Biological Size in a Diverse Clade of Salamanders

Louis Paul Decena-Segarra, Lilijana Bizjak-Mali, Aleš Kladnik, Stanley K. Sessions, and Sean M. Rovito

Blog and Spanish abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Decena-Segarra.html

FREE

Evolution of Reproduction Periods in Seasonal Environments

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

FREE

Predicting Multivariate Responses of Sexual Dimorphism to Direct and Indirect Selection

Changde Cheng (成常德) and David Houle

FREE; AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS ADDRESS

What Do Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Have in Common? The Organism in the Middle

Ellen D. Ketterson

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Ketterson.html

NATURAL HISTORY NOTE

Floral Trait Evolution of Angiosperms on Pacific Islands

Molly C. Hetherington-Rauth and Marc T. J. Johnson

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Hetherington-Rauth.html

NOTE

The Population Genetics of Evolutionary Rescue in Diploids: X Chromosomal versus Autosomal Rescue

Robert L. Unckless and H. Allen Orr

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

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: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Sikkink.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

Fecundity-Longevity Trade-Off, Vertical Transmission, and Evolution of Virulence in Sterilizing Pathogens

Eva Janoušková and Luděk Berec

Open Access

Stage-Structured Evolutionary Demography: Linking Life Histories, Population Genetics, and Ecological Dynamics

Charlotte de Vries and Hal Caswell

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

Open Access

Shared patterns of genome-wide differentiation are more strongly predicted by geography than by ecology

Diana Jessie Rennison, Kira E. Delmore, Kieran Samuk, Gregory L. Owens, and Sara E. Miller

Note

Early Sibling Conflict May Ultimately Benefit the Family

Alyssa Laney Smith, Daniel Z. Atwater, and Ragan M. Callaway

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

Evolution at the Edge of Expanding Populations

Maxime Deforet, Carlos Carmona-Fontaine, Kirill S. Korolev, and Joao B. Xavier

Lifetime Fitness, Sex-Specific Life History, and the Maintenance of a Polyphenism

Alycia C. R. Lackey, Michael P. Moore, Jacqueline Doyle, Nicole Gerlanc, Ashley Hagan, Morgan Geile, Chris Eden, and Howard H. Whiteman

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

Note

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in the Wild: Clonal Turnover and Stability in Daphnia Populations

Christopher F. Steiner and Carly J. Nowicki

Evolutionary Hysteresis and Ratchets in the Evolution of Periodical Cicadas

Jaakko Toivonen and Lutz Fromhage

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

Open Access

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

Yoav Ram and Lilach Hadany

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

Evolution of the Two Sexes under Internal Fertilization and Alternative Evolutionary Pathways

Jussi Lehtonen and Geoff A. Parker

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

Open Access

Sexually Antagonistic Variation and the Evolution of Dimorphic Sexual Systems

Colin Olito and Tim Connallon

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

Open 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

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

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

The Evolution of Marine Larval Dispersal Kernels in Spatially Structured Habitats: Analytical Models, Individual-Based Simulations, and Comparisons with Empirical Estimates

Allison K. Shaw, Cassidy C. D’Aloia, and Peter M. Buston

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

The Effect of Pollen Limitation on the Evolution of Mating System and Seed Size in Hermaphroditic Plants

Qiaoqiao Huang and Martin Burd

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

American Society of Naturalists Address

The Snail’s Charm

Kathleen Donohue

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebDonohue.html

American Society of Naturalists Address

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

Ruth G. Shaw

Climate Change

Recent Papers

Caching in or Falling Back at the Sevilleta: The Effects of Body Size and Seasonal Uncertainty on Desert Rodent Foraging

Justin D. Yeakel, Uttam Bhat, and Seth D. Newsome

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Yeakel.html

Free Access

Quantifying the Contribution of Habitats and Pathways to a Spatially Structured Population Facing Environmental Change

Christine Sample, Joanna A. Bieri, Benjamin Allen, Yulia Dementieva, Alyssa Carson, Connor Higgins, Sadie Piatt, Shirley Qiu, Summer Stafford, Brady J. Mattsson, Darius J. Semmens, Jay E. Diffendorfer, and Wayne E. Thogmartin

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Sample.html

Climate Change and Thermoregulatory Consequences of Activity Time in Mammals

Timothy C. Bonebrake, Enrico L. Rezende, and Francisco Bozinovic

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/July-Bonebrake.html

Dispersal Increases the Resilience of Tropical Savanna and Forest Distributions

Nikunj Goel, Vishwesha Guttal, Simon A. Levin, and A. Carla Staver

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

Spatial Population Structure Determines Extinction Risk in Climate-Induced Range Shifts

Christopher Weiss-Lehman and Allison K. Shaw

https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Weiss-Lehman.html

Decreased Precipitation Predictability Negatively Affects Population Growth through Differences in Adult Survival

Guillem Masó, Arpat Ozgul, and Patrick S. Fitze

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

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Gorne.html

Climate Warming, Resource Availability, and the Metabolic Meltdown of Ectotherms

Raymond B. Huey and Joel G. Kingsolver

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

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

Note, Open Access

Pollen on Stigmas of Herbarium Specimens: A Window into the Impacts of a Century of Environmental Disturbance on Pollen Transfer

Anna L. Johnson, María Rebolleda-Gómez, and Tia-Lynn Ashman

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Johnson.html

Intraspecific Variation in Worker Body Size Makes North American Bumble Bees (Bombus spp.) Less Susceptible to Decline

Matthew W. Austin and Aimee S. Dunlap

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Austin.html

Antagonistic Responses of Exposure to Sublethal Temperatures: Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Coincides with a Reduction in Organismal Performance

Anthony L. Gilbert and Donald B. Miles

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Gilbert.html

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

Special Feature on Maladaptation

Lagging Adaptation to Climate Supersedes Local Adaptation to Herbivory in an Annual Monkeyflower

Nicholas J. Kooyers, Jack M. Colicchio, Anna B. Greenlee, Erin Patterson, Neal T. Handloser, and Benjamin K. Blackman

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugKooyers.html

Special Feature on Maladaptation, Open Access

Maladaptive Shifts in Life History in a Changing Environment

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

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

Species’ Range Dynamics Affect the Evolution of Spatial Variation in Plasticity under Environmental Change

Max Schmid, Ramon Dallo, and Frédéric Guillaume

Predicting Habitat Choice after Rapid Environmental Change

Philip H. Crowley, Pete C. Trimmer, Orr Spiegel, Sean M. Ehlman, William S. Cuello, and Andrew Sih

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayCrowley.html

Prey Responses to Exotic Predators: Effects of Old Risks and New Cues

Sean M. Ehlman, Pete C. Trimmer, and Andrew Sih

Blurb: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprEhlman.html

Note

Shifting Vital Rate Correlations Alter Predicted Population Responses to Increasingly Variable Environments

David T. Iles, Robert F. Rockwell, and David N. Koons

Increased Temperature Disrupts the Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Relationship

Elodie C. Parain, Rudolf P. Rohr, Sarah M. Gray, and Louis-Félix Bersier

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

Diversity and Diversification

Recent Papers

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

Tania Hernández-Hernández and John J. Wiens

Detecting Mosaic Patterns in Macroevolutionary Disparity

Caroline Parins-Fukuchi

Gliding Dragons and Flying Squirrels: Diversifying versus Stabilizing Selection on Morphology following the Evolution of an Innovation

Terry J. Ord, Joan Garcia-Porta, Marina Querejeta, and David C. Collar

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

Comparative Analyses of Phenotypic Sequences Using Phylogenetic Trees

Daniel S. Caetano and Jeremy M. Beaulieu

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Caetano.html

Open 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: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Dec-Resetarits.html

A Grinnellian Niche Perspective on Species-Area Relationships

Jorge Soberón

Genetic Diversity–Area Relationships across Bird Species

Haiying Fan (樊海英), Qingchen Zhang (张清臣), Juanjuan Rao (饶娟娟), Jingwen Cao (曹静文), and Xin Lu (卢欣)

Head Shape Modulates Diversification of a Classic Cichlid Pharyngeal Jaw Innovation

Edward D. Burress, Milton Tan, and Peter C. Wainwright

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

Variability in Dispersal Syndromes Is a Key Driver of Metapopulation Dynamics in Experimental Microcosms

Staffan Jacob, Alexis S. Chaine, Michèle Huet, Jean Clobert, and Delphine Legrand

Open 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

Interspecific Covariation in Courtship Displays, Iridescent Plumage, Solar Orientation, and Their Interactions in Hummingbirds

Richard K. Simpson and Kevin J. McGraw

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

Beta Diversity Patterns Derived from Island Biogeography Theory

Muyang Lu, David Vasseur, and Walter Jetz

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Lu.html

Natural History Note

Playing out Liem’s Paradox: Opportunistic Piscivory across Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids

Jimena Golcher-Benavides and Catherine E. Wagner

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Golcher-Benavides.html (with cartoon)

Phenotypic Diversity Arises from Secondary Signal Loss in the Elaborate Visual Displays of Toucans and Barbets

Meredith C. Miles and Matthew J. Fuxjager

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

Are Pheromones Key to Unlocking Cryptic Lizard Diversity?

Stephen M. Zozaya, Megan Higgie, Craig Moritz, and Conrad J. Hoskin

Open Access

Phytoplankton Species Richness along Coastal and Estuarine Salinity Continua

Kalle Olli, Robert Ptacnik, Riina Klais, and Timo Tamminen

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

The Relationship between Spatial Structure and the Maintenance of Diversity in Microbial Populations

Michael T. France and Larry J. Forney

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

Hong Li and John J. Wiens

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

Drivers of Phylogenetic Assemblage Structure of the Furnariides, a Widespread Clade of Lowland Neotropical Birds

Jesús N. Pinto-Ledezma, Alex E. Jahn, Victor R. Cueto, José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, and Fabricio Villalobos

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

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

Tim Connallon, Shefali Sharma, and Colin Olito

Historical Comment

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

Yoel E. Stuart

Synthesis

Fifty Years of Mountain Passes: A Perspective on Dan Janzen’s Classic Article
Kimberly S. Sheldon, Raymond B. Huey, Michael Kaspari, and Nathan J. Sanders

Morphology

Recent Papers

Gliding Dragons and Flying Squirrels: Diversifying versus Stabilizing Selection on Morphology following the Evolution of an Innovation

Terry J. Ord, Joan Garcia-Porta, Marina Querejeta, and David C. Collar

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

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

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Fan.html

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

Head Shape Modulates Diversification of a Classic Cichlid Pharyngeal Jaw Innovation

Edward D. Burress, Milton Tan, and Peter C. Wainwright

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

What Determines the Distinct Morphology of Species with a Particular Ecology? The Roles of Many-to-One Mapping and Trade-Offs in the Evolution of Frog Ecomorphology and Performance

Daniel S. Moen

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

Natural History Note

Morphological Polymorphism Associated with Alternative Reproductive Tactics in a Plethodontid Salamander

Todd W. Pierson, Jennifer Deitloff, Stanley K. Sessions, Kenneth H. Kozak, and Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

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

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

Branch Thinning and the Large-Scale, Self-Similar Structure of Trees
Lars Hellström, Linus Carlsson, Daniel S. Falster, Mark Westoby, and Åke Brännström
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyHellstroem.html

Morph-Specific Patterns of Reproductive Senescence: Connections to Discrete Reproductive Strategies
Andrea S. Grunst, Melissa L. Grunst, Vince A. Formica, Marisa L. Korody, Adam M. Betuel, Margarida Barcelo-Serra, Sarah Ford, Rusty A. Gonser, and Elaina M. Tuttle
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneGrunst.html

Leaf Form Evolution in Viburnum Parallels Variation within Individual Plants
Elizabeth L. Spriggs, Samuel B. Schmerler, Erika J. Edwards, and Michael J. Donoghue

Sex-Specific Heterogeneity in Fixed Morphological Traits Influences Individual Fitness in a Monogamous Bird Population
Floriane Plard, Susanne Schindler, Raphaël Arlettaz, and Michael Schaub
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanPlard.html

Note
Resemblance to the Enemy’s Eyes Underlies the Intimidating Effect of Eyespots
Karin Kjernsmo and Sami Merilaita
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctKjernsmo.html

Maladaptive Plasticity Masks the Effects of Natural Selection in the Red-Shouldered Soapberry Bug

Meredith L. Cenzer

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

Predator Perspective Drives Geographic Variation in Frequency-Dependent Polymorphism
Iris A. Holmes, Maggie R. Grundler, and Alison R. Davis Rabosky

Natural History Note

Natural History Constrains the Macroevolution of Foot Morphology in European Plethodontid Salamanders

Dean C. Adams, Dana Korneisel, Morgan Young, and Annamaria Nistri

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

Natural History Note
A Sea Scorpion’s Strike: New Evidence of Extreme Lateral Flexibility in the Opisthosoma of Eurypterids
W. Scott Persons IV and John Acorn
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyPersons.html

How Parallel Is Parallel Evolution? A Comparative Analysis in Fishes
Krista B. Oke, Gregor Rolshausen, Caroline LeBlond, and Andrew P. Hendry
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyOke.html

Evolutionary Determinants of Morphological Polymorphism in Colonial Animals
Carl Simpson, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, and Amalia Herrera-Cubilla

Natural History Note
The Hawk-Eyed Songbird: Retinal Morphology, Eye Shape, and Visual Fields of an Aerial Insectivore
Luke P. Tyrrell and Esteban Fernández-Juricic

Clines Arc through Multivariate Morphospace
Brian K. Lohman, Daniel Berner, and Daniel I. Bolnick

Behavioral Evolution

Recent Papers

Open Access

Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

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

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

Open Access

The Evolutionary Origin of Associative Learning

Anselmo C. Pontes, Robert B. Mobley, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, and Fred C. Dyer

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

The Evolution of Indiscriminate Altruism in a Cooperatively Breeding Mammal

Chris Duncan, David Gaynor, Tim Clutton-Brock, and Mark Dyble

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneDuncan.html

Gene-Culture Coinheritance of a Behavioral Trait

Elliot G. Aguilar and Erol Akçay

Should I Change or Should I Go? Phenotypic Plasticity and Matching Habitat Choice in the Adaptation to Environmental Heterogeneity

Pim Edelaar, Roger Jovani, and Ivan Gomez-Mestre

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

Synthesis

Comparative Analyses of Phenotypic Trait Covariation within and among Populations

Kathryn S. Peiman and Beren W. Robinson

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

Genetic Correlations among Developmental and Contextual Behavioral Plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster

Julia B. Saltz, Seana Lymer, Jessica Gabrielian, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin

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

Fitness Consequences of Boldness in Juvenile and Adult Largemouth Bass

Nicholas G. Ballew, Gary G. Mittelbach, and Kim T. Scribner

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

Population Genetics

Recent Papers

Free Access

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

Yoav Ram and Lilach Hadany

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

Open Access

Stage-Structured Evolutionary Demography: Linking Life Histories, Population Genetics, and Ecological Dynamics

Charlotte de Vries and Hal Caswell

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

Integrating Genetic and Demographic Effects of Connectivity on Population Stability: The Case of Hatchery Trucking in Salmon

Allison G. Dedrick and Marissa L. Baskett
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugDedrick.html

Effects of Offspring and Parental Inbreeding on Parent-Offspring Communication
Sarah N. Mattey, Jon Richardson, Tom Ratz, and Per T. Smiseth

Class Structure, Demography, and Selection: Reproductive-Value Weighting in Nonequilibrium, Polymorphic Populations
Sébastien Lion
Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayLion.html

Reproduction

Recent Papers

Open Access

When synchrony makes the best of both worlds even better: how well do we really understand facultative sex?

Hanna Kokko

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/VP-Kokko.html

Testosterone modulates status-specific patterns of cooperation in a social network

Thomas Brandt Ryder, Roslyn Dakin, Ben J. Vernasco, Brian S. Evans, Brent M. Horton, and Ignacio T. Moore

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Ryder.html

Open Access

Deer indirectly alter the reproductive strategy and operational sex ratio of an unpalatable forest perennial

Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Christopher D. Heckel, Robert M. McElderry, and Susan Kalisz

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Bialic-Murphy.html

Between- and Within-Individual Variation of Maternal Thyroid Hormone Deposition in Wild Great Tits (Parus major)

Bin-Yan Hsu, Irene Verhagen, Phillip Gienapp, Veerle M. Darras, Marcel E. Visser, and Suvi Ruuskanen
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Hsu.html

Open Access

Queen Longevity and Fecundity Affect Conflict with Workers over Resource Inheritance in a Social Insect

Edward J. Almond, Timothy J. Huggins, Liam P. Crowther, Joel D. Parker, and Andrew F. G. Bourke

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

The Effect of Pollen Limitation on the Evolution of Mating System and Seed Size in Hermaphroditic Plants

Qiaoqiao Huang and Martin Burd

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

Open Access, Natural History Note

Anther Rubbing, a New Mechanism That Actively Promotes Selfing in Plants

Mohamed Abdelaziz, Mohammed Bakkali, José M. Gómez, Enrica Olivieri, and Francisco Perfectti

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

Open Access

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

Manuela Ferrari, Anna K. Lindholm, and Barbara König

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

Female-Biased Sex Ratios Increase Colony Survival and Reproductive Output in the Spider Anelosimus studiosus

James L. L. Lichtenstein, Ambika Kamath, Sarah Bengston, Leticia Avilés, and Jonathan N. Pruitt

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

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

Pluck or Luck: Does Trait Variation or Chance Drive Variation in Lifetime Reproductive Success?
Robin E. Snyder and Stephen P. Ellner
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprSnyder.html

The Energetic Cost of Reproduction and Its Effect on Optimal Life-History Strategies
Asta Audzijonyte and Shane A. Richards
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctAudzijonyte.html

Mating Opportunity Increases with Synchrony of Flowering among Years More than Synchrony within Years in a Nonmasting Perennial
Amy Waananen, Gretel Kiefer, Jennifer L. Ison, and Stuart Wagenius
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepWaananen.html

Sex Allocation Theory for Facultatively Sexual Organisms Inhabiting Seasonal Environments: The Importance of Bet Hedging
Nina Gerber, Isobel Booksmythe, and Hanna Kokko

Adaptive Foraging of Pollinators Can Promote Pollination of a Rare Plant Species
Gita Benadi and Robert J. Gegear
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugBenadi.html

A Physiological Signature of the Cost of Reproduction Associated with Parental Care
Melinda A. Fowler and Tony D. Williams
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecFowler.html

Multivariate Sexual Selection on Ejaculate Traits under Sperm Competition
Rowan A. Lymbery, W. Jason Kennington, and Jonathan P. Evans
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyLymbery.html

Collector Motion Affects Particle Capture in Physical Models and in Wind Pollination
Dori McCombe and Josef D. Ackerman
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyMcCombe.html

Natural History Miscellany Note
Dispensing Pollen Via Catapult: Explosive Pollen Release in Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
Callin M. Switzer, Stacey A. Combes, and Robin Hopkins
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneSwitzer.html

Selfing Can Facilitate Transitions between Pollination Syndromes
Carolyn A. Wessinger and John K. Kelly
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayWessinger-A.html

Open Access
The Consequences of Polyandry for Sibship Structures, Distributions of Relationships and Relatedness, and Potential for Inbreeding in a Wild Population
Ryan R. Germain, Peter Arcese, and Jane M. Reid
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayGermain.html

The Behavior and Reproductive Physiology of a Solitary Progressive Provisioning Vespid Wasp: Evidence for a Solitary-Cycle Origin of Reproductive Castes
Hans C. Kelstrup, Klaus Hartfelder, Tiago Falcon Lopes, and Theresa C. Wossler

Offspring Size and Reproductive Allocation in Harvester Ants
Diane C. Wiernasz and Blaine J. Cole
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanWiernasz.html

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
Abstract: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanKopp-A.html

Open Access
Do Sperm Really Compete and Do Eggs Ever Have a Choice? Adult Distribution and Gamete Mixing Influence Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, and the Evolution of Gamete Recognition Proteins in the Sea
Don R. Levitan
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanLevitan.html

Syntheses and Perspectives

The Synthesis and Perspectives section publishes re-evaluations designed to move fields of ecology, evolution, and behavior forward.

Dormancy in Metacommunities
Nathan I. Wisnoski, Mathew A. Leibold, and Jay T. Lennon
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugWisnoski.html

Open Access
A Practical Guide to the Study of Distribution Limits
Yvonne Willi and Josh Van Buskirk
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneWilli.html

Nighttime Ecology: The “Nocturnal Problem” Revisited
Kevin J. Gaston

Animal Coloration Patterns: Linking Spatial Vision to Quantitative Analysis
Mary Caswell Stoddard and Daniel Osorio

Toward Understanding the Repeated Occurrence of Associations between Melanin-Based Coloration and Multiple Phenotypes
Luis M. San-Jose and Alexandre Roulin

Fifty Years of Mountain Passes: A Perspective on Dan Janzen’s Classic Article
Kimberly S. Sheldon, Raymond B. Huey, Michael Kaspari, and Nathan J. Sanders

Open Access
Coupling, Reinforcement, and Speciation
Roger K. Butlin and Carole M. Smadja

Theoretical Approaches in Evolutionary Ecology: Environmental Feedback as a Unifying Perspective
Sébastien Lion
Lay summary: http://amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanLion.html

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





See  http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/an/instruct for details and submission instructions. A short proposal is required for Syntheses and Perspectives; it will be given full and constructive attention.

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

ASN Presidential Addresses

In looking up some things for #AmNat150 ( see http://amnat150.org/) I started assembling a list of presidential addresses in the journal.Not everyone gets around to writing up their addresses! When I realized that Hutchinson's Santa Rosalia was a presidential address, I thought it might be interesting to share all the ones I've found so far in the journal (some of them are a bit disguised).

• 2016 Mark McPeek, The Ecological Dynamics of Natural Selection: Traits and the Coevolution of Community Structure 
• 2014 Trevor Price, Sensory Drive, Color, and Color Vision  
• 2013  Dolph Schluter,Speciation, Ecological Opportunity, and Latitude 
• 2012 Stevan Arnold,Phenotypic Evolution: The Ongoing Synthesis  
• 2011 Robert Ricklefs Naturalists, Natural History, and the Nature of Biological Diversity 
• 2010 Jonathan Losos Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Limitations of Phylogenies in Comparative Biology
• 2009 Joel Kingsolver The Well‐Temperatured Biologist 
• 2008 John N. Thompson The Coevolving Web of Life 
• 2005 Joseph Travis Is It What We Know or Who We Know? Choice of Organism and Robustness of Inference in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
• 2003 Daniel Simberloff Community Ecology: Is It Time to Move On?  
• 2001 James Thomson When Is It Mutualism?  
• 1999 Peter Grant What Does It Mean to Be a Naturalist at the End of the Twentieth Century? 
• 1997 Geerat J. Vermeij Inequality and the Directionality of History  
• 1994 Douglas J. Futuyma Wherefore and Whither the Naturalist?  
• 1969 G. Ledyard Stebbins The Natural History and Evolutionary Future of Mankind  
• 1965 H. Bentley Glass The Naturalist-Changes in Outlook Over Three Centuries  
• 1964 Albert Tyler The Biology and Chemistry of Fertilization  
• 1963 R. Alexander Brink Genetic Repression in Multicellular Organisms 
• 1960 L. C. Dunn Big and Little Populations: An Amateur's Excursion  
• 1958 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals? 
• 1952 Sewall Wright Modes of Selection 
• 1945 Edmund W. Sinnott Substance or System: The Riddle of Morphogenesis 
• 1941 W. W. Cort Human Factors in Parasite Ecology 
• 1938 R. M. Yerkes The Life History and Personality of the Chimpanzee  
• 1936 C. E. Allen Haploid and Diploid Generations 
• 1912 Edwin G. Conklin Problems of Evolution and Present Methods of Attacking Them 
• 1895 Edward D. Cope The Formulation of the Natural Sciences 

Tweets of Asilomar #ASN2014

There was a hum of talk in person and on Twitter during the meetings, so I decided to capture a few for posterity--and to inspire the next one!

	Rachael Bay (@RachaelABay)
1/12/14, 7:53 PM Excited to be at the first ASN meeting in 12 years! #ASN2014

	Holly Kindsvater (@HollyKindsvater)
1/13/14, 10:33 AM Wow live tweeting a meeting is harder than I expected! Many interesting convos going on in life & online! #ASN2014

	Ben Sheldon (@Ben_Sheldon_EGI)
1/13/14, 3:05 PM Wi-fi problems during symp, but highlights tour-de-force presentations by de Meester and Nosil on microgeographic adaptation #ASN2014

	Caitlin MacKenzie (@CaitlinInMaine)
1/13/14, 3:44 PM #ASN2014 has pushed me out of my comfort zone -- both in model complexity & west-coast study systems. But, I love it!

	Alex Perkins (@TAlexPerkins)
1/13/14, 11:49 PM @cboettig thanks for #asn2014 debate coverage. sounds like a real brawl. we need these at every meeting!

  

	Jenna Morgan Lang (@jennomics)
1/14/14, 9:48 AM Some talks are SO hard to live tweet because the speaker is rapid-firing too much cool stuff. I'm looking at you, @TadashiFukami #ASN2014

	Caitlin MacKenzie (@CaitlinInMaine)
1/14/14, 12:58 PM Overheard at #ASN2014 "I'm definitely being stretched here, but stretched in a good way. Mental yoga."

	Marc Mangel (@MarcMangel1)
1/14/14, 1:40 PM Am Nat is my favorite journal and this ASN meeting is superb! Do it again, Council #ASN2014 @ASNAmNat

	Luke Harmon (@lukejharmon)
1/14/14, 6:24 PM Had a great time at #ASN2014. Thanks for all the zombie love. Shout out to Dan Bolnick for an amazing mtg and Trevor Price for the debate.

	Marc Johnson (@evoecolab)
1/14/14, 9:23 PM @ASNAmNat Regretting not going to #ASN2014. Sounded amazing! My type of meeting ...

	Holly Kindsvater (@HollyKindsvater)
1/15/14, 11:29 AM Andrew Beckerman: daphnia have locally adapted developmental plasticity. Sweet combo of common garden & genomics, much to chew on. #ASN2014

	Jenna Morgan Lang (@jennomics)
1/15/14, 11:36 AM .@boechera just gave THE most awesomest talk. I'm totally jonesing to read soil microbe/plant phenology paper now! #ASN2014

	Holly Kindsvater (@HollyKindsvater)
1/15/14, 5:40 PM Spent a satisfying afternoon working on #science with @dr_k_lo #ASN2014

	Andrew Beckerman (@beckerhopper)
1/16/14, 7:49 AM So long #ASN2014 and thanks for all the sunny science. Well done team @DanielBolnick

	Holly Kindsvater (@HollyKindsvater)
1/16/14, 9:39 AM Sorry to be leaving Asilomar today. Thanks for a great meeting @ASNAmNat ! #asn2014

	Daniel Bolnick (@DanielBolnick)
1/16/14, 7:37 PM If you didn't get a chance to buy one of Alex Wild's photo in the raffle / silent auction, visit alexanderwild.com & mention #ASN2014

Who We Are

Editor-in-Chief Judie Bronstein

I've been Editor-in-Chief of the American Naturalist since January 2013, having served as an Associate Editor and then Editor since 2004. My own research focuses on big conceptual issues surrounding mutually beneficial interactions between species (Why cooperate? How does cooperation evolve, and under what conditions can it persist? How fragile are mutualisms in the face of spatial and temporal change, including anthropogenic disruption?). My work lies at the intersection of the three main areas we cover – ecology, evolution, and behavior – and incorporates both empirical and theoretical approaches. For this reason, I consider myself a fairly typical reader of this journal. In fact, it was my discovery of Am Nat as a college student that stimulated me to enter science as a career. I’m currently University Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Arizona.

Editor Troy Day

I am a theoretical evolutionary ecologist interested in the evolution of the genotypic and phenotypic attributes of individual organisms, as well as the evolution of intra- and inter-specific interactions. Although my work is primarily theoretical, I am also involved in testing theory in collaboration with other researchers using a variety of experimental and correlative techniques. Current research areas in our group include the evolution of host-parasite interactions, the evolution of drug resistance, sexual selection and conflict, and the evolutionary diversification of populations in space

Editor Susan Kalisz

While I’m in my first year as an Editor of the American Naturalist., I have long appreciated the synthetic and cross-cutting nature of articles published in the American Naturalist. My work focuses on how evolutionary forces and local ecological factors interact to shape individual traits and population-level fitness.

Currently my lab is exploring two main themes: mating system evolution and species interactions and invasion.  Using the mixed mating genus, Collinsia, as a model, we examine the genomic consequences of shifts to self-fertilization, quantify if selection shapes mating system traits to maintain stable mixed mating, and test ideas related to Baker’s Law, linking selfing, dispersal, and range size. Further, my long-term herbivore exclusion experiment was designed to quantify the role of herbivores, mutualists, and invaders on the physiology, life history, and demographic stability of the native understory community. These projects are run out of my lab at the University of Pittsburgh, where I am a faculty member.and time.

Natural History Editor Mark McPeek

I'm the Natural History Miscellany Editor of the American Naturalist, and on the faculty at Dartmouth. My work considers how ecological and evolutionary processes interact to shape the structure of biological communities.

Managing Editor Trish Morse

	I've been the managing editor of The American Naturalist since June 2001--the best job in the world.