Sleep is nearly ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom, yet little is known about how
ecological factors or perturbations to the environment shape the duration and timing of …

Adaptation to spatially varying environments has been studied for decades, but advances in
sequencing technology are now enabling researchers to investigate the landscape of …

Diatoms are abundant unicellular microalgae, responsible for≈ 20% of global
photosynthetic CO2 fixation. Nevertheless, we know little about fundamental aspects of their …

The ability to perform genomic sequencing on long-dead organisms is opening new frontiers
in evolutionary research. These opportunities are especially notable in the case of museum …

Why do some individuals need more sleep than others? Forward mutagenesis screens in
flies using engineered mutations have established a clear genetic component to sleep …

Aedes aegypti is an important mosquito vector of human disease with a wide distribution
across the globe. Climatic conditions and ecological pressure drive differences in the …

It is well-known that there is a high frequency of plant-growth-promoting strains in Bacillus
subtilis and that these can be effective under both stressful and stress-free conditions. There …

Adaption is a process that makes an individual or population more suited to their
environment. Long-term adaptation is predicated on ample usable genetic variation …

To advance our understanding of adaptation to temporally varying selection pressures, we
identified signatures of seasonal adaptation occurring in parallel among Drosophila …

Despite decades of work, our understanding of the distribution of fitness effects of
segregating genetic variants in natural populations remains largely incomplete. One form of …