The impact of genetic changes during crop domestication

P Smýkal, MN Nelson, JD Berger, EJB Von Wettberg - Agronomy, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Humans have domesticated hundreds of plant and animal species as sources of food, fiber,
forage, and tools over the past 12,000 years, with manifold effects on both human society …

Cities of the Anthropocene: urban sustainability in an eco-evolutionary perspective

M Alberti - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cities across the globe are driving systemic change in social and ecological systems by
accelerating the rates of interactions and intensifying the links between human activities and …

Pesticide resistance in arthropods: Ecology matters too

A Bras, A Roy, DG Heckel, P Anderson… - Ecology …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Pesticide resistance development is an example of rapid contemporary evolution that poses
immense challenges for agriculture. It typically evolves due to the strong directional …

Human influences on evolution, and the ecological and societal consequences

AP Hendry, KM Gotanda… - … Transactions of the …, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans have dramatic, diverse and far-reaching influences on the evolution of other
organisms. Numerous examples of this human-induced contemporary evolution have been …

Making sense of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in the light of evolution

K Karlsson Green, JA Stenberg… - Evolutionary …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a holistic approach to combat pests (including
herbivores, pathogens, and weeds) using a combination of preventive and curative actions …

Potential and limits of exploitation of crop wild relatives for pea, lentil, and chickpea improvement

CJ Coyne, S Kumar, EJB von Wettberg… - Legume …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Legumes represent the second most important family of crop plants after grasses,
accounting for approximately 27% of the world's crop production. Past domestication …

Domestication impacts on plant–herbivore interactions: a meta-analysis

SR Whitehead, MM Turcotte… - … Transactions of the …, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
For millennia, humans have imposed strong selection on domesticated crops, resulting in
drastically altered crop phenotypes compared with wild ancestors. Crop yields have …

Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution

AP Sullivan, DW Bird, GH Perry - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017‏ - nature.com
Due to our intensive subsistence and habitat-modification strategies—including broad-
spectrum harvesting and predation, widespread landscape burning, settlement construction …

The expansion of agriculture has shaped the recent evolutionary history of a specialized squash pollinator

NS Pope, A Singh, AK Childers, KM Kapheim… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
The expansion of agriculture is responsible for the mass conversion of biologically diverse
natural environments into managed agroecosystems dominated by a handful of genetically …

Brucella Genomics: Macro and Micro Evolution

M Suárez-Esquivel, E Chaves-Olarte, E Moreno… - International journal of …, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Brucella organisms are responsible for one of the most widespread bacterial zoonoses,
named brucellosis. The disease affects several species of animals, including humans. One …