How virulence evolves after a virus jumps to a new host species is central to disease
emergence. Our current understanding of virulence evolution is based on insights drawn …

By formalizing the relationship between genotype or phenotype and fitness, fitness
landscapes harbor information on molecular and evolutionary constraints. The shape of the …

The rate of adaptive evolution depends on the rate at which beneficial mutations are
introduced into a population and the fitness effects of those mutations. The rate of beneficial …

A fundamental question in evolutionary biology is how microevolutionary processes
translate into species diversification. Cophylogeny provides an appropriate framework to …

Understanding how phenotypes emerge from genotypes is a foundational goal in biology.
As challenging as this task is when considering cellular life, it is further complicated in the …

Identifying different types of coevolutionary dynamics is important for understanding
biodiversity and infectious disease. Past work has often focused on pairs of interacting …

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is enzootic in dromedary
camels across the Middle East and Africa. Virus-induced pneumonia in humans results from …

Experimental microbial ecology and evolution have yielded foundational insights into
ecological and evolutionary processes using simple microcosm setups and phenotypic …

Host‐parasite coevolution is ubiquitous, sha** genetic and phenotypic diversity and the
evolutionary trajectory of interacting species. With the advances of high throughput …

The contemporary genomic diversity of viruses is a result of the continuous and dynamic
interaction of past ecological and evolutionary processes. Thus, genome sequences of …