The evolutionary relationships between ecology, cognition, and neurobiology remain
elusive, despite important contributions from functional studies and comparative analyses …

Insects harbor diverse assemblages of bacterial and fungal symbionts, which play crucial
roles in host life history. Insects and their various symbionts represent a good model for …

Abstract Changes in the abundance and diversity of neural cell types, and their connectivity,
shape brain composition and provide the substrate for behavioral evolution. Although …

Adult fireflies exhibit unique flashing courtship signals, emitted by specialized light organs,
which develop mostly independently from larval light organs during the pupal stage. The …

Despite insertions and deletions being the most common structural variants (SVs) found
across genomes, not much is known about how much these SVs vary within populations and …

Adaptive radiations are characterized by rapid ecological diversification and speciation
events, leading to fuzzy species boundaries between ecologically differentiated species …

Gene flow between species, although usually deleterious, is an important evolutionary
process that can facilitate adaptation and lead to species diversification. It also makes …

How do neural circuits accommodate changes that produce cognitive variation? We explore
this question by analyzing the evolutionary dynamics of an insect learning and memory …

Heliconius butterflies exhibit expanded mushroom bodies, a key brain region for learning
and memory in insects, and a novel foraging strategy unique among Lepidoptera–traplining …

Comparative genomics provides ample ways to study genome evolution and its relationship
to phenotypic traits. By develo** and testing alternate models of evolution throughout a …