Now out in Evolution Letters - Ongoing adaptation of the partridge pea boosts fitness across generations and helps buffer populations against harmful environmental change. By Ruth Shaw et al. Image credit Patrick Alexander doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Pace of life shapes parasite defense. Fast living guppies invest less in resistance and fecundity tolerance but not mortality tolerance. Now out in Evolution Letters, by Sadie Evanov and @jfstep.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image Credit: J Mank
Fast developers in native habitats show higher survival in new environments suggesting development time forecasts adaptive potential in Sicilian daisies. By @gmwalter.bsky.social and @jonbridle.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... @gmwalter.bsky.social Image credit A Moro at Wikimedia
Check out the gorgeous cover of our new issue! In the cover article @quentinevo.bsky.social and colleagues show that pleiotropy in neural crest cells can generate contrasting patterns of skull evolution, enabling rapid evolution of a syndrome. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit Q Horta-Lacueva
Was a pleasure talking with @johannawagstaffe.bsky.social about how the public can understand scientific publishing. @evolletters.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
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Headshot of Judith Mank. Text: The Use of AI and LLMs in Scientific Publishing with Dr. Judith Mank. The Evolution Exchange, a monthly conversation series from the Society for the Study of Evolution.
💬 Don’t miss the latest Evolution Exchange, in which SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with Evolution Letters EIC Dr. Judith Mank about the use of AI and LLMs in scientific publishing: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...
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I'll be there, scouting for exciting papers for @evolletters.bsky.social !
It is always a delight talking with @gbaucom.bsky.social! This time about what I learned while writing an editorial in @evolletters.bsky.social about how to maintain integrity as AI changes how we write. Conversation@ www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio... Editorial@ doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Inbreeding depression persists even without genetic variation in identical snail genomes. This new paper suggests epigenetic mechanisms beyond classic mutation-based explanations. Image credit: Robert Aguilar, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center @wikimedia doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Midges reveal mutation rate trade offs. Longer development time raises mutations per generation while faster growth increases mutations per day. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit: Antonello Fardella/ANFAROFOTO.IT
Check out the gorgeous cover of our new issue! In the cover article @quentinevo.bsky.social and colleagues show that pleiotropy in neural crest cells can generate contrasting patterns of skull evolution, enabling rapid evolution of a syndrome. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit Q Horta-Lacueva
Fast developers in native habitats show higher survival in new environments suggesting development time forecasts adaptive potential in Sicilian daisies. By @gmwalter.bsky.social and @jonbridle.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... @gmwalter.bsky.social Image credit A Moro at Wikimedia
Urban habitats reshape pollinator communities and flowers respond: jewelweed sepal size evolves via plastic and genetic changes. By @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social @simjoly.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... image credit Wim Rubers @Wikimedia
Pace of life shapes parasite defense. Fast living guppies invest less in resistance and fecundity tolerance but not mortality tolerance. Now out in Evolution Letters, by Sadie Evanov and @jfstep.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image Credit: J Mank
Lizard head on the journal cover
Our work as Editor's choice in @evolletters.bsky.social !✨️
Developmental biases & micro- to macroevution in the lizard skull 🦎
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Inbreeding depression persists even without genetic variation in identical snail genomes. This new paper suggests epigenetic mechanisms beyond classic mutation-based explanations. Image credit: Robert Aguilar, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center @wikimedia doi.org/10.1093/evle...
🚨 My first first-authored paper is out in @evolletters.bsky.social
🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis.
🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations.
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Midges reveal mutation rate trade offs. Longer development time raises mutations per generation while faster growth increases mutations per day. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit: Antonello Fardella/ANFAROFOTO.IT
Urban habitats reshape pollinator communities and flowers respond: jewelweed sepal size evolves via plastic and genetic changes. By @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social @simjoly.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... image credit Wim Rubers @Wikimedia
Just out in Evolution Letters! Sex-chromosome evolution in flies is remarkably fluid, and is shaped by new turnovers, gene movement off the X, and shifts in GC content. doi.org/10.1093/evle.... Druid fly credit: Frank Vassen Wikimedia
The evolution of violence shows that primate aggression isn’t one trait. Mild aggression evolves largely independently from lethal violence. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
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Visual pigments reveal fish history. Ancestral reconstructions support shallow marine origins and parallel visual adaptations during moves to freshwater habitats. doi.org/10.1093/evle... image credit Sam Stukel at Wikimedia
Do dim forests select for bigger butterfly eyes? Surprisingly, no. Across 59 species, eye size evolution reflects ancestry and scaling—not ecology. By @sridharhalali.bsky.social and @lepphylo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Did you know that Evolution Letters now publishes reviews?! Our inaugural one is fantastic! Deep learning is opening new doors for evolutionary genomics, especially for nonmodel organisms with sparse or uncertain genomic data. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Diversification rate shifts are everywhere. Analyses of phylogenies covering >300k species reveal widespread changes in speciation dynamics across the Tree of Life.
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New research on 100 primate species finds that mild and lethal aggression are evolutionarily decoupled — species that fight often aren’t more likely to kill. Bickering and murder follow different evolutionary paths. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #Aggression @evolletters.bsky.social
Just out in Evolution Letters! Sex-chromosome evolution in flies is remarkably fluid, and is shaped by new turnovers, gene movement off the X, and shifts in GC content. doi.org/10.1093/evle.... Druid fly credit: Frank Vassen Wikimedia
The evolution of violence shows that primate aggression isn’t one trait. Mild aggression evolves largely independently from lethal violence. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Image credit 20th Century Fox
Visual pigments reveal fish history. Ancestral reconstructions support shallow marine origins and parallel visual adaptations during moves to freshwater habitats. doi.org/10.1093/evle... image credit Sam Stukel at Wikimedia
Cool study. On a separate note, wow we need more (and larger) phylogenies of invertebrate clades