I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

Large-scale genome initiatives are transforming biodiversity genomics, but genomes remain taxonomically sparse and difficult to compare across species. Kapli and colleagues argue that natural history ...

Poison appears to have caused mutation that helps insects home in on mates in noisy cities

Odorant receptors ( Or s) are the interface between an animal’s nervous system and its olfactory environment. In insect genomes, the Or s are often the largest gene family, and their rapid duplication...

Author summary Proteins fold into three-dimensional structures that are essential for their function. Because these structures depend on interactions among amino acids, the fitness effect of a mutatio...

A plant receptor detects caterpillar attack and triggers emission of chemical cues to attract predatory wasps.

Generations of “sociobiologists” have tried and failed to argue that genetic analysis offers the key to understanding social inequality. A new book fares no better.

Structurally complex loci can repeatedly generate similar traits; Karageorgiou et al. established primate amylase locus as a structural variation hotspot, potentially seeded by transposable elements. ...

The extent to which adaptation can be predicted, particularly for traits with complex genetic bases, is unknown. Here, we leveraged a model complex trait, model species, and high-powered longitudinal ...

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Abstract. Coevolution has come to be widely understood as specific, simultaneous, reciprocal adaptation by pairs of interacting species. This strict-sense

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New fruit fly research provides the first direct evidence of “dominance reversal,” revealing why pesticide resistance is so hard to eliminate in changing environments.

Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can s...

Transcription factors (TFs) have specific patterns of binding to gene promoter regions, which have similarities and differences within TF families and...

New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested

How one animal's oddity inspired Sewall Wright to take on one of Darwin's big ideas

The genetic architecture underlying differences in pod colour, pod shape and flower position in peas has finally been resolved.

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer ...

Abstract. The identification of genomic regions and genes that have evolved under natural selection is a fundamental objective in the field of evolutionary

Long-term studies provide insights into the complex interplay between evolutionary process and pattern across multiple systems and timescales.

Traits that affect organismal fitness are often very genetically variable. This genetic variation is vital for populations to adapt to their environments, but it is also surprising given that nature (...

A central challenge in evolutionary biology is to uncover mechanisms maintaining functional genetic variation1. Theory suggests that dominance reversal, whereby alleles subject to fluctuating selectio...