Color and Near‐Infrared Reflectance Covary in Distinct Ways Across Taxa Solar reflectance across ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths was analyzed in integuments and eggs of 322 species. We found consistent positive correlations between UV and visible refl...

How are different parts of the solar spectrum linked in animal reflectance? That is the question we asked in our latest study led by @jgoldenbergevo.bsky.social, published in @journal-evo.bsky.social

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Digest: Drift and environmental fluctuations reveal fitness variance under balancing selection Abstract. Why natural populations harbor high additive genetic variance for fitness remains an evolutionary puzzle. Connallon and Czuppon (2026) show that

New Evolution Digest out! 🎉

Does balancing selection maintain fitness variance? Yes, when drift and environmental fluctuations are in play!

I discuss why this matters for plant adaptation to climate change. 🌱🌡️

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Happy to share that my third PhD chapter has been published in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. In this paper, we investigated how developmental temperature (26°C or 30°C) and inbreeding affect sexual traits in male guppies (Poecilia reticulata).👇

Our new paper in @journal-evo.bsky.social is out! 🎉

We showcase how to use phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance to test evolutionary hypotheses across species, applied here to test patterns of stabilising selection and canalisation for wing length in 172 birds

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Is the fundamental theorem of natural selection of any use? Abstract. There have been many recent discussions of the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection, with an emphasis on its mathematical accuracy. It is arg

Read the Commentary by Brian Charlesworth: "Is the fundamental theorem of natural selection of any use?"

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Modular reorganization of the trilobite Lonchodomas chaziensis demonstrates mosaic patterns of phenotypic change underlie metamorphosis Abstract. Some trilobites underwent drastic morphological transformations through their development. The Ordovician trilobite Lonchodomas chaziensis transf

Don't miss this month's #OpenAccess Editor's Choice article: "Modular reorganization of the trilobite Lonchodomas chaziensis demonstrates mosaic patterns of phenotypic change underlie metamorphosis" by Ernesto E Vargas-Parra and Melanie J Hopkins.

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Phenotypic plasticity in turtle ants has opposing evolutionary consequences for genes and regulatory loci Abstract. Phenotypic plasticity is widespread and evolutionarily important, but genomic consequences of new plastic traits remain unclear. Here, we explore

🏅 This month's Editor's Choice article by Megan Barkdull and Corrie Moreau: "Phenotypic plasticity in turtle ants has opposing evolutionary consequences for genes and regulatory loci"
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MoleRate: comparing molecular relative evolutionary rates to detect convergent evolution Abstract. In comparative evolutionary genomics, faster or slower evolution of a particular gene, site, or branch in a phylogenetic tree, when compared to t

🧪 Methods Article by Avery G. Selberg and coauthors: "MoleRate: comparing molecular relative evolutionary rates to detect convergent evolution"
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Commentary: evidence that sexually antagonistic male coloration factors are clustered in a rarely recombining region near the guppy male-determining locus Abstract. A recently published genome sequence of a YY guppy male supports long-standing suggestions about the Y-linked region of this fish—that it include

💬 Commentary by Deborah Charlesworth: "Evidence that sexually antagonistic male coloration factors are clustered in a rarely recombining region near the guppy male-determining locus"
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Insights from the “Women in Evolutionary Biology Workshop” on gender equality in science Abstract. In May 2024, the Women in Evolutionary Biology Workshop was held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. The event served as a plat

#OpenAccess 🔍 Perspective by Stella Kyomen and coauthors: "Insights from the 'Women in Evolutionary Biology Workshop' on gender equality in science"
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On the repeated evolution of parthenogenesis in stick insects Abstract. Female-producing parthenogenesis is widespread in stick insects. It ranges from rare in sexual species to facultative or obligate, the latter som

#OpenAccess 📝 Review by Tanja Schwander and coauthors: "On the repeated evolution of parthenogenesis in stick insects"
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Volume 80 Issue 3 | Evolution | Oxford Academic Evolution, the official journal of the Society for the Study of Evolution™, publishes articles in all areas of evolutionary biology focused on…

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Lateral view of a preserved croaking gecko (Aristelliger) embryo

I’m so excited to announce our new paper in @journal-evo.bsky.social showing how embryology can help us determine ancestral character states in temporal niche

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Collab w/ A Bauer, A Wegerski, @tonygamble.bsky.social, & A Rasys

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I'm very happy to share that a paper from my DPhil thesis has been selected as the Editor's Choice article in Evolution. 😊

You can read it here: lnkd.in/eCnAQfzT 🐜

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Embryology reveals a morphological signature of ancestral diurnality maintained in a nocturnal lineage Abstract. Evolutionary transitions to diurnality are often associated with specialized ocular morphology, such as pits (foveae) in the retina. Foveae are r

Awesome!

"Embryology reveals a morphological signature of ancestral diurnality maintained in a nocturnal lineage"

By Griffing et al. in @journal-evo.bsky.social

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(Are there any similar analyses for Nocturnal Caprimulgiformes -> Diurnal Apodidae / Trochilidae ? )

Volume 80 Issue 1 | Evolution | Oxford Academic Evolution, the official journal of the Society for the Study of Evolution™, publishes articles in all areas of evolutionary biology focused on broadening...

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Follow up to our work on eco-evolutionary dynamics of host parasite systems in complex landscapes up in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. This work was done during Ruthvik's Erasmus M1 project @ruthvikpsi.bsky.social with me and @efronhofer.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Is the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection of any use? Abstract. There have been many recent discussions of the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection, with an emphasis on its mathematical accuracy. It is arg

"There is still life in the old dog."

Brian Charlesworth on Fisher's Fundamental Theorem in @journal-evo.bsky.social

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Photograph examples of plumage maturation in manakins, a family of colorful, tropical lekking birds.

Title page for a scientific article titled: "Evolutionary history of delayed plumage maturation in manakins," including abstract and keyword information.

Phylogenetic tree of delayed plumage maturation in manakins.

Evolution of manakin plumage maturation now out early look @sse-evolution.bsky.social

(Phylo-)Devo-evo, plumage, and social signaling

Bonkers system that reshaped how I think about both development and evolution.

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Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality The colonization of low-light environments exerts selective pressure to enhance non-visual senses while relaxing selection on vision, often leading to opsi

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 #Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality, published in Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social

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Excited that my 2nd MSc paper is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social 🦋🎉 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
We find Heliconius’ impressive visual memory is not due to increased visual-structure investment over that of their outgroup relatives, but instead consistent with specialisation of the central circuitry.

On the repeated evolution of parthenogenesis in stick insects Abstract. Female-producing parthenogenesis is widespread in stick insects. It ranges from rare in sexual species to facultative or obligate, the latter som

Are stick insects unique in their ability to transition to parthenogenesis?

Our new review in @journal-evo.bsky.social covers intraspecific and hybrid origins, cytological mechanisms, and co-occurence of female-only and sexual populations, with comparisons to other taxa.

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Digest: Craniofacial morphology diversification in Malagasy primates and the role of size constraints in adaptive radiation Abstract. How did size-related evolutionary constraints shape the diversification of craniofacial morphology during the adaptive radiation of Malagasy lemu

Check out this new digest paper published in @journal-evo.bsky.social presenting how Malagasy #lemurs cranial shape evolution is influenced by their body size.

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Allometry, sexual dimorphism, and sexual trait elaboration in the birds of paradise Abstract. Sexually selected traits include not only some of the most elaborate phenotypes in nature, but also some of the most diverse and sexually dimorph

As an early Christmas gift, @journal-evo.bsky.social accepted @kenstoyama.bsky.social and my paper on macroevolutionary patterns of ornament evolution in birds of paradise! 🦚

Check it out here:
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I am honored to be reviewed by a great scientist and friend, @cavenderg9.bsky.social, in @sse-evolution.bsky.social @journal-evo.bsky.social. I enjoyed this excellent review, which asks what the syngameon concept gives us, and I think differently since reading it.

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December cover of Evolution.

Don't miss the December issue of Evolution, now online!
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Don't ask “when is it coevolution?”—ask “how?” Abstract. Coevolution has come to be widely understood as specific, simultaneous, reciprocal adaptation by pairs of interacting species. This strict-sense

It's in print! My opinionated dive into the definition of "coevolution" is officially out in the December issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social

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