Rapid adaptive radiation poses two distinct questions apart from speciation and adaptation:
What happens after one speciation event and how do some lineages continue speciating …

To investigate the origins and stages of vertebrate adaptive radiation, we reconstructed the
spatial and temporal histories of adaptive alleles underlying major phenotypic axes of …

Investigating closely related species that rapidly evolved divergent feeding morphology is a
powerful approach to identify genetic variation underlying variation in complex traits. This …

Ecological speciation occurs when reproductive isolation evolves as a byproduct of adaptive
divergence between populations. Selection favouring gene regulatory divergence between …

Island tameness results largely from a lack of natural predators. Because some insular
rattlesnake populations lack functional rattles, presumably the consequence of relaxed …

The effect of the environment on fitness in natural populations is a fundamental question in
evolutionary biology. However, experimental manipulations of both environment and …

Biologists are drawn to the most extraordinary adaptations in the natural world, often
referred to as evolutionary novelties, yet rarely do we understand the microevolutionary …

The origins of novel trophic specialization, in which organisms begin to exploit resources for
the first time, may be explained by shifts in behavior such as foraging preferences or feeding …

Dietary specialization on hard prey items, such as mollusks and crustaceans, is commonly
observed in a diverse array of fish species. Many fish consume these types of prey by …

Adaptive radiations offer an excellent opportunity to understand the eco-evolutionary
dynamics of gut microbiota and host niche specialization. In a laboratory common garden …