Background: From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, new SARS-CoV-2 variants have
emerged that potentially affect transmissibility, severity, and immune evasion in infected …

Recombination is a central biological process with implications for many areas in the life
sciences. Yet we are only beginning to appreciate variation in the recombination rate along …

During the process of speciation, populations may diverge for traits and at their underlying
loci that contribute barriers to gene flow. These barrier traits and barrier loci underlie …

Identifying genomic regions underlying adaptation in extant lineages is key to understanding
the trajectories along which biodiversity evolves. However, this task is complicated by …

Sex differences in overall recombination rates are well known, but little theoretical or
empirical attention has been given to how and why sexes differ in their recombination …

Behavioral variation abounds in nature. This variation is important for adaptation and
speciation, but its molecular basis remains elusive. Here, we use a hybrid zone between two …

Current phylogenomic approaches implicitly assume that the predominant phylogenetic
signal within a genome reflects the true evolutionary history of organisms, without assessing …

Seasonal migration is a taxonomically widespread behaviour that integrates across many
traits. The European blackcap exhibits enormous variation in migration and is renowned for …

Mountain ranges are amongst the most species‐rich habitats, with many large and rapid
evolutionary radiations. The tempo and mode of diversification in these systems are key …

Speciation genomic studies aim to interpret patterns of genome-wide variation in light of the
processes that give rise to new species. However, interpreting the genomic “landscape” of …