Genomics

Recent Papers

Open Access

Host Transcriptional Responses to High- and Low-Virulent Avian Malaria Parasites

Elin Videvall, Vaidas Palinauskas, Gediminas Valkiūnas, and Olof Hellgren

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

Larger Genomes Linked to Slower Development and Loss of Late-Developing Traits

Molly C. Womack, Marissa J. Metz, and Kim L. Hoke

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

Symposium

The Genomics of Sexual Conflict

Locke Rowe, Stephen F. Chenoweth, and Aneil F. Agrawal

Symposium

Evolutionary Conflict between Mobile DNA and Host Genomes

Michael J. Song and Sarah Schaack

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

Genomic Contingencies and the Potential for Local Adaptation in a Hybrid Species

Anna Runemark, Laura Piñeiro Fernández, Fabrice Eroukhmanoff, and Glenn-Peter Sætre

Summary & photos: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyRunemark.html

Open Access

A Genomic Imprinting Model of Termite Caste Determination: Not Genetic but Epigenetic Inheritance Influences Offspring Caste Fate

Kenji Matsuura, Nobuaki Mizumoto, Kazuya Kobayashi, Tomonari Nozaki, Tadahide Fujita, Toshihisa Yashiro, Taro Fuchikawa, Yuki Mitaka, and Edward L. Vargo

Summary & photos: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneMatsuura.html

Eco-Evo Feedbacks

Recent Papers

Ecological and Evolutionary Stochasticity Shape Natural Selection

Denon Start, Arthur E. Weis, and Benjamin Gilbert

Demography-Dispersal Trait Correlations Modify the Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Range Expansion

Brad M. Ochocki, Julia B. Saltz, and Tom E. X. Miller

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

Free Access

Why Do Phytoplankton Evolve Large Size in Response to Grazing?

Pedro Branco, Martijn Egas, Spencer R. Hall, and Jef Huisman

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

Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks Predict the Time Course of Rapid Life-History Evolution

David N. Reznick, Ronald D. Bassar, Corey A. Handelsman, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Jeff Arendt, Tim Coulson, Tomos Potter, Emily W. Ruell, Julián Torres-Dowdall, Paul Bentzen, and Joseph Travis

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Reznick.html (great cartoon)

Open Access, Special Feature

Maladapted Prey Subsidize Predators and Facilitate Range Expansion

Mark C. Urban, Alice Scarpa, Justin M. J. Travis, and Greta Bocedi

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

Pulsed Immigration Events Can Facilitate Adaptation to Harsh Sink Environments

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

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

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

Christopher F. Steiner and Carly J. Nowicki

Phenotype-Environment Matching Predicts Both Positive and Negative Effects of Intraspecific Variation

Christopher J. Dibble and Volker H. W. Rudolf

When Do Shifts in Trait Dynamics Precede Population Declines?

Gaurav Baruah, Christopher F. Clements, Frédéric Guillaume, and Arpat Ozgul

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

Open Access

The Evolutionary Ecology of Metamorphosis

Hanna ten Brink, André M. de Roos, and Ulf Dieckmann

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

Open Access

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

Charlotte de Vries and Hal Caswell

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

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

Mark A. McPeek

Indirect Interactions Shape Selection in a Multispecies Food Web

Denon Start, Arthur E. Weis, and Benjamin Gilbert

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

Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Viral Plasticity

Melinda Choua and Juan A. Bonachela

Rapid Divergence of Predator Functional Traits Affects Prey Composition in Aquatic Communities

Dominik W. Schmid, Matthew D. McGee, Rebecca J. Best, Ole Seehausen, and Blake Matthews

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

Evolutionary Responses to Conditionality in Species Interactions across Environmental Gradients

Anna M. O’Brien, Ruairidh J. H. Sawers, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, and Sharon Y. Strauss

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

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Metacommunities: Ecological Inheritance, Helping within Species, and Harming between Species

Charles Mullon and Laurent Lehmann

Open Access

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Ecological Stoichiometry in Plankton Communities

Pedro Branco, Martijn Egas, James J. Elser, and Jef Huisman

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

Eco-Evolutionary Buffering: Rapid Evolution Facilitates Regional Species Coexistence despite Local Priority Effects

Meike J. Wittmann and Tadashi Fukami

Symposium

Partitioning the Effects of Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks on Community Stability

Swati Patel, Michael H. Cortez, and Sebastian J. Schreiber

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

Symposium

Evolution as a Coexistence Mechanism: Does Genetic Architecture Matter?

Sebastian J. Schreiber, Swati Patel, and Casey terHorst

Symposium

Evolution in a Community Context: Trait Responses to Multiple Species Interactions

Casey P. terHorst, Peter C. Zee, Katy D. Heath, Thomas E. Miller, Abigail I. Pastore, Swati Patel, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Michael J. Wade, and Matthew R. Walsh

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-terHorst.html

Note

Keystone Individuals Alter Ecological and Evolutionary Consumer-Resource Dynamics

Denon Start

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

Open Access

Coinfection Timing Drives Host Population Dynamics through Changes in Virulence

Katherine M. Marchetto and Alison G. Power

Synthesis

Theoretical Approaches in Evolutionary Ecology: Environmental Feedback as a Unifying Perspective

Sébastien Lion

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

Phenotypic Plasticity

Recent Papers

Testosterone Modulates Status-Specific Patterns of Cooperation in a Social Network

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

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

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

Etienne Rajon and Sylvain Charlat

Plastic Senescence in the Honey Bee and the Disposable Soma Theory

Jack da Silva

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-da-Silva.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

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

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

Open Access

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

Max Schmid, Ramon Dallo, and Frédéric Guillaume

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

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

Open Access
Ecological Genetic Conflict: Genetic Architecture Can Shift the Balance between Local Adaptation and Plasticity
Olof Leimar, Sasha R. X. Dall, John M. McNamara, Bram Kuijper, and Peter Hammerstein
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanLeimar.html

Open Access

Transgenerational and Within-Generation Plasticity in Response to Climate Change: Insights from a Manipulative Field Experiment across an Elevational Gradient

Susana M. Wadgymar, Rachel M. Mactavish, and Jill T. Anderson

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

Open Access

A Genomic Imprinting Model of Termite Caste Determination: Not Genetic but Epigenetic Inheritance Influences Offspring Caste Fate

Kenji Matsuura, Nobuaki Mizumoto, Kazuya Kobayashi, Tomonari Nozaki, Tadahide Fujita, Toshihisa Yashiro, Taro Fuchikawa, Yuki Mitaka, and Edward L. Vargo

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

Oxygen Limitation at the Larval Stage and the Evolution of Maternal Investment per Offspring in Aquatic Environments

Njal Rollinson and Locke Rowe

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

Open Access

Maternal Effects in a Wild Songbird Are Environmentally Plastic but Only Marginally Alter the Rate of Adaptation

Jip J. C. Ramakers, Marleen M. P. Cobben, Piter Bijma, Thomas E. Reed, Marcel E. Visser, and Phillip Gienapp

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

Neglected Patterns of Variation in Phenotypic Plasticity: Age- and Sex-Specific Antipredator Plasticity in a Cichlid Fish

Denis Meuthen, Sebastian A. Baldauf, Theo C. M. Bakker, and Timo Thünken

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

Temperature-Dependent Growth and Fission Rate Plasticity Drive Seasonal and Geographic Changes in Body Size in a Clonal Sea Anemone

Will H. Ryan

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