Wild animals and plants have developed a variety of adaptive traits driven by adaptive
evolution, an important strategy for species survival and persistence. Uncovering the …

Fish coloration, evolved from selection and adaptation, is a prominent feature of remarkable
aquaculture merits. Fish possess more pigment cell types than any other vertebrates and are …

The common carp, Cyprinus carpio, is one of the most important cyprinid species and
globally accounts for 10% of freshwater aquaculture production. Here we present a draft …

The genetic architecture of adaptive traits is of key importance to predict evolutionary
responses. Most adaptive traits are polygenic—ie, result from selection on a large number of …

Detecting genetic variants under selection using FST outlier analysis (OA) and
environmental association analyses (EAAs) are popular approaches that provide insight into …

Epistasis, or interactions between genes, has long been recognized as fundamentally
important to understanding the structure and function of genetic pathways and the …

When related taxa hybridize extensively, their genomes may become increasingly
homogenized over time. This mixing via hybridization creates conservation challenges when …

Adaptive radiation refers to diversification from an ancestral species that produces
descendants adapted to use a great variety of distinct ecological niches. In this review, I …

Animal coloration is a powerful model for studying the genetic mechanisms that determine
phenotype. Genetic crosses of laboratory mice have provided extensive information about …

An important tenet of evolutionary developmental biology (“evo devo”) is that adaptive
mutations affecting morphology are more likely to occur in the cis-regulatory regions than in …