Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro-and macroevolution

J Rolland, LF Henao-Diaz, M Doebeli… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Explaining broad molecular, phenotypic and species biodiversity patterns necessitates a
unifying framework spanning multiple evolutionary scales. Here we argue that although …

When will a changing climate outpace adaptive evolution?

RA Martin, CRB da Silva, MP Moore… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Decades of research have illuminated the underlying ingredients that determine the scope
of evolutionary responses to climate change. The field of evolutionary biology therefore …

Evolution of the germline mutation rate across vertebrates

LA Bergeron, S Besenbacher, J Zheng, P Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The germline mutation rate determines the pace of genome evolution and is an evolving
parameter itself. However, little is known about what determines its evolution, as most …

The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild

BC Sheldon, LEB Kruuk, SC Alberts - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past seventy-five years, long-term population studies of individual organisms in
their natural environments have been influential in illuminating how ecological and …

How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process

EL Berdan, NH Barton, R Butlin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Fire-driven animal evolution in the Pyrocene

GM Jones, JF Goldberg, TM Wilcox, LB Buckley… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Fire regimes are a major agent of evolution in terrestrial animals. Changing fire regimes and
the capacity for rapid evolution in wild animal populations suggests the potential for rapid …

How many species will earth lose to climate change?

JJ Wiens, J Zelinka - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change may be an important threat to global biodiversity, potentially leading to the
extinction of numerous species. But how many? There have been various attempts to …

Candidate genes under selection in song sparrows co-vary with climate and body mass in support of Bergmann's Rule

K Carbeck, P Arcese, I Lovette, C Pruett… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ecogeographic rules denote spatial patterns in phenotype and environment that may reflect
local adaptation as well as a species' capacity to adapt to change. To identify genes …

Increasing environmental variability inhibits evolutionary rescue in a long-lived vertebrate

TJ Clark-Wolf, PD Boersma, F Plard… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Evolutionary rescue, whereby adaptive evolutionary change rescues populations from
extinction, is theorized to enable imperiled animal populations to persist under increasing …

[PDF][PDF] How can we resolve Lewontin's paradox?

B Charlesworth, JD Jensen - Genome biology and evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We discuss the genetic, demographic, and selective forces that are likely to be at play in
restricting observed levels of DNA sequence variation in natural populations to a much …