Avian malaria is the oldest experimental system for investigating the biology and
transmission of Plasmodium parasites. Recent molecular protocols for detecting and …

A consequence of the assumptions of the infinitesimal model, one of the most important
theoretical foundations of quantitative genetics, is that phenotypic traits are predicted to be …

An important first step in studying the demography of wild animals is to identify the animals
uniquely through applying markings, such as rings, tags, and bands. Once the animals are …

Estimating heritability of traits in wild populations is a major prerequisite to understand their
evolution. Until recently, most heritability estimates had been obtained using parent …

Variation between and within individuals in life history traits is ubiquitous in natural
populations. When affecting fitness‐related traits such as survival or reproduction, individual …

What causes interindividual variation in fitness? Evidence of heritability of latent individual
fitness traits has resparked a debate about the causes of variation in life histories in …

Structured population models are widely used in plant and animal demographic studies to
assess population dynamics. In matrix population models, populations are described with …

While the study of the origins of biological diversity across species has provided numerous
examples of adaptive divergence, the realization that it can occur at microgeographic scales …

Studies of wild vertebrates have provided evidence of substantial differences in lifetime
reproduction among individuals and the sequences of life history 'states' during life …

Lindström (in Trends Ecol Evol 14: 343–347, 1999) synthesized knowledge about “early
development and fitness in birds and mammals”, interesting tracks and challenges for future …