The rhizosphere microbiome plays critical roles in plant growth and provides promising
solutions for sustainable agriculture. While the rhizosphere microbiome frequently fluctuates …

Many important questions in ecology and evolutionary biology can only be answered with
data that extend over several decades and answering a substantial proportion of questions …

In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter
than the" long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is …

Heritability allows a comparison of the relative importance of genes and environment to the
variation of traits within and across populations. The concept of heritability and its definition …

Efforts to understand the links between evolutionary and ecological dynamics hinge on our
ability to measure and understand how genes influence phenotypes, fitness and population …

Inbreeding depression is of major concern for the conservation of threatened species, and
inbreeding avoidance is thought to be a key driver in the evolution of mating systems …

The relative proportion of additive and non-additive variation for complex traits is important
in evolutionary biology, medicine, and agriculture. We address a long-standing controversy …

Estimating the genetic basis of quantitative traits can be tricky for wild populations in natural
environments, as environmental variation frequently obscures the underlying evolutionary …

Research programmes on oxidative stress and hormesis are wide ranging. Biomedical and
toxicological sciences have traditionally centralised such research, but in the last years we …

The North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis (NARW), currently numbering< 410
individuals, is on a trajectory to extinction. Although direct mortality from ship strikes and …