Moving animal groups display remarkable feats of coordination. This coordination is largely
achieved when individuals adjust their movement in response to their neighbours' …

A major goal of evolutionary biology is to identify the genotypes and phenotypes that
underlie adaptation to divergent environments. Stickleback fish, including the threespine …

Ecological speciation is the process by which reproductively isolated populations emerge as
a consequence of divergent natural or ecologically-mediated sexual selection. Most …

Drosophila melanogaster males perform a series of courtship behaviors that, when
successful, result in copulation with a female. For over a century, mutations in the yellow …

Despite deep evolutionary conservation, recombination rates vary greatly across the
genome and among individuals, sexes and populations. Yet the impact of this variation on …

Restoring biodiversity-rich grasslands within cultivated matrices represents a real
conservation challenge. One set of options consists in adopting less disruptive mowing …

Quantitative trait loci (QTL) are genetic regions that influence phenotypic variation of a
complex trait, often through genetic interactions with each other and the environment. These …

Fish display a remarkable diversity of social behaviors, both within and between species.
While social behaviors are likely critical for survival, surprisingly little is known about how …

Neuroscientists have long studied species with convenient biological features to discover
how behavior emerges from conserved molecular, neural, and circuit level processes. With …

A major challenge to understanding the genetic basis of complex behavioral evolution is the
quantification of complex behaviors themselves. Deer mice of the genus Peromyscus vary in …