Next-generation cophylogeny: unravelling eco-evolutionary processes

I Blasco-Costa, A Hayward, R Poulin… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
A fundamental question in evolutionary biology is how microevolutionary processes
translate into species diversification. Cophylogeny provides an appropriate framework to …

Assessing co‐diversification in host‐associated microbiomes

AH Moeller, JG Sanders, DD Sprockett… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
When lineages of hosts and microbial symbionts engage in intimate interactions over
evolutionary timescales, they can diversify in parallel (ie, co‐diversify), producing …

Parallel evolution of ancient, pleiotropic enhancers underlies butterfly wing pattern mimicry

JJ Lewis, RC Geltman, PC Pollak… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Color pattern mimicry in Heliconius butterflies is a classic case study of complex trait
adaptation via selection on a few large effect genes. Association studies have linked color …

Selective sweeps on novel and introgressed variation shape mimicry loci in a butterfly adaptive radiation

M Moest, SM Van Belleghem, JE James, C Salazar… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Natural selection leaves distinct signatures in the genome that can reveal the targets and
history of adaptive evolution. By analysing high-coverage genome sequence data from 4 …

JBS Haldane's contribution to the Bayes factor hypothesis test

A Etz, EJ Wagenmakers - Statistical Science, 2017 - JSTOR
This article brings attention to some historical developments that gave rise to the Bayes
factor for testing a point null hypothesis against a composite alternative. In line with current …

Deep learning on butterfly phenotypes tests evolution's oldest mathematical model

JF Hoyal Cuthill, N Guttenberg, S Ledger… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Traditional anatomical analyses captured only a fraction of real phenomic information. Here,
we apply deep learning to quantify total phenotypic similarity across 2468 butterfly …

Grand challenges in coevolution

M Medina, DM Baker, DA Baltrus… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coevolution—reciprocal evolutionary change between interacting lineages (Thompson,
1994; see Glossary)—is thought to have played a profound role in the evolution of Life on …

Pattern and process in the comparative study of convergent evolution

DL Mahler, MG Weber, CE Wagner… - The American …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Understanding processes that have shaped broad-scale biodiversity patterns is a
fundamental goal in evolutionary biology. The development of phylogenetic comparative …

Many functionally connected loci foster adaptive diversification along a neotropical hybrid zone

JJ Lewis, SM Van Belleghem, R Papa, CG Danko… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Characterizing the genetic complexity of adaptation and trait evolution is a major emphasis
of evolutionary biology and genetics. Incongruent findings from genetic studies have …

Whole‐genome resequencing reveals recent divergence of geographic populations of the dung beetle Phelotrupes auratus with color variation

Y Araki, T Sota - Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of population divergence history is key to understanding organism
diversification mechanisms. The geotrupid dung beetle Phelotrupes auratus, which inhabits …