Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are well aware that natural and sexual selection do
not operate on traits in isolation, but instead act on combinations of traits. This long …

At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species
relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it …

Best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) is a method for obtaining point estimates of a
random effect in a mixed effect model. Over the past decade it has been used extensively in …

Evolutionary developmental biology (evo‐devo) has undergone dramatic transformations
since its emergence as a distinct discipline. This paper aims to highlight the scope, power …

Drought limits light harvesting, resulting in lower plant growth and reproduction. One trait
important for plant drought response is water-use efficiency (WUE). We investigated (1) how …

Contrary to previous assumptions that most mutations are deleterious, there is increasing
evidence for persistence of large-effect mutations in natural populations. A possible …

Replicate lines under uniform selection often evolve in different ways. Previously, analyses
using whole-genome sequence data for individual mice (Mus musculus) from 4 replicate …

The genetic basis of seed germination and seedling vigor is largely unknown in Brassica
species. We performed a study to evaluate the genetic basis of these important traits in a B …

Predicting the responses to natural selection is one of the key goals of evolutionary biology.
Two of the challenges in fulfilling this goal have been the realization that many estimates of …

Recent studies indicate that relatively few genomic regions are repeatedly involved in the
evolution of Heliconius butterfly wing patterns. Although this work demonstrates a number of …