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

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Evolution of Reproduction Periods in Seasonal Environments

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Host-Parasite Interactions

Recent Papers

The Size, Symmetry, and Color Saturation of a Male Guppy’s Ornaments Forecast His Resistance to Parasites

Jessica F. Stephenson, Martin Stevens, Jolyon Troscianko, and Jukka Jokela

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

Resistance Genes Affect How Pathogens Maintain Plant Abundance and Diversity

Simon Maccracken Stump, James H. Marden, Noelle G. Beckman, Scott A. Mangan, and Liza S. Comita

Male-Male Competition Causes Parasite-Mediated Sexual Selection for Local Adaptation

Miguel Gómez-Llano, Aaditya Narasimhan, and Erik I. Svensson

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

Defensive Symbiosis and the Evolution of Virulence

Paul Nelson and Georgiana May

Open Access

Deconstructing the Impact of Malaria Vector Diversity on Disease Risk

Amber Gigi Hoi, Benjamin Gilbert, and Nicole Mideo

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

Parasitism Risk and Infection Alter Host Dispersal

Celina B. Baines, Salma Diab, and Shannon J. McCauley

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Aug-Baines.html

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

Vertical Transmission of a Nematode from Female Lizards to the Brains of Their Offspring

Nathalie Feiner, Sueli de Souza-Lima, Fátima Jorge, Soraya Naem, Fabien Aubret, Tobias Uller, and Steven A. Nadler

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

Individual Specialization and Multihost Epidemics: Disease Spread in Plant-Pollinator Networks

Stephen P. Ellner, Wee Hao Ng, and Christopher R. Myers

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

An Empirical Test of the Role of Small-Scale Transmission in Large-Scale Disease Dynamics

Joseph R. Mihaljevic, Carlos M. Polivka, Constance J. Mehmel, Chentong Li, Vanja Dukic, and Greg Dwyer

Thermal Variability and Plasticity Drive the Outcome of a Host-Pathogen Interaction

Laura V. Ferguson and Brent J. Sinclair

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Ferguson.html

Pathogens and Mutualists as Joint Drivers of Host Species Coexistence and Turnover: Implications for Plant Competition and Succession

Jiang Jiang, Karen C. Abbott, Mara Baudena, Maarten B. Eppinga, James A. Umbanhowar, and James D. Bever

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Apr-Jiang.html

Stochasticity and Infectious Disease Dynamics: Density and Weather Effects on a Fungal Insect Pathogen

Colin H. Kyle, Jiawei Liu, Molly E. Gallagher, Vanja Dukic, and Greg Dwyer

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

Eva Janoušková and Luděk Berec

Can Community Structure Causally Determine Dynamics of Constituent Species? A Test Using a Host-Parasite Community

Ryan E. Langendorf and Daniel F. Doak

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

Host Responses to Foreign Eggs across the Avian Visual Color Space

Daniel Hanley, Karel Gern, Mark E. Hauber, and Tomáš Grim

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyHanley.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

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

Predicting the Thermal and Allometric Dependencies of Disease Transmission via the Metabolic Theory of Ecology

Devin Kirk, Pepijn Luijckx, Andrijana Stanic, and Martin Krkošek

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

Within-Host Priority Effects Systematically Alter Pathogen Coexistence
Patrick A. Clay, Kailash Dhir, Volker H. W. Rudolf, and Meghan A. Duffy
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebClay.html

Sexual Conflict and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Coevolution of Sexually Antagonistic Host Traits with an STI
Alison M. Wardlaw and Aneil F. Agrawal