Inversions are structural mutations that reverse the sequence of a chromosome segment
and reduce the effective rate of recombination in the heterozygous state. They play a major …

Local adaptation leads to differences between populations within a species. In many
systems, similar environmental contrasts occur repeatedly, sometimes driving parallel …

Supergenes are tightly linked sets of loci that are inherited together and control complex
phenotypes. While classical supergenes—governing traits such as wing patterns in …

Ants show striking diversity in social organization, raising major questions on the proximate
and ultimate causes of such variation. The shift from one-queen (= monogyne) societies to …

The balanced lethal system found in crested and marbled newts of the genus Triturus
presents an intriguing mystery. All adults possess two distinct forms of their largest …

Supergenes often have multiple phenotypic effects, including unexpected detrimental ones,
because recombination suppression maintains associations among co-adapted alleles but …

Inversions have been proposed to facilitate local adaptation, by linking together locally
coadapted alleles at different loci. Prior work addressing this question theoretically has …

The increasing prevalence of genome sequencing and assembly has uncovered evidence
of hyperdivergent genomic regions–loci with excess genetic diversity–in species across the …

In a balanced lethal system, half of the reproductive output always succumbs. A clear
example is observed in Triturus newts, which contain two distinct versions of chromosome 1 …

Supergenes are clusters of linked loci that control complex phenotypes, such as alternative
forms of social organization in ants. Explaining the long‐term maintenance of supergenes is …