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 …

Although it is well appreciated that genetic studies of flowering time regulation have led to
fundamental advances in the fields of molecular and developmental biology, the ways in …

Rapid phenotypic changes in traits of adaptive significance are crucial for organisms to
thrive in changing environments. How such phenotypic variation is achieved rapidly, despite …

Soybean (Glycine max) was domesticated from its wild relative Glycine soja. One‐hundred‐
seed weight is one of the most important domesticated traits determining soybean yield; …

Gene gain and loss are crucial factors that shape the evolutionary success of diverse
organisms. In the past two decades, more attention has been paid to the significance of …

Convergent phenotypic evolution provides some of the strongest evidence for adaptation.
However, the extent to which recurrent phenotypic adaptation has arisen via parallelism at …

Biologists have long been intrigued by apparently predictable and repetitive evolutionary
trajectories inferred across a variety of lineages and systems. In recent years, high …

Abstract Model systems in biology expand the research capacity of individuals and the
community. Closely related to Arabidopsis, the genus Boechera has emerged as an …