An individual's fitness cost associated with environmental change likely depends on the rate
of adaptive phenotypic plasticity, and yet our understanding of plasticity rates in an …

Question: Associations of body size and of body temperature with fitness have complex
relationships for ectotherms, but three general patterns are known. Bigger is better: Larger …

Infection by a temperate phage can lead to death of the bacterial cell, but sometimes these
phages integrate into the bacterial chromosome, offering the potential for a more long …

A previously established multiscale population genetics model posits that fitness can be
inferred from the physical properties of proteins under the physiological assumption that a …

Abstract Theory predicts the emergence of generalists in variable environments and
antagonistic pleiotropy to favour specialists in constant environments, but empirical data …

Climate change affects organisms worldwide with profound ecological and evolutionary
consequences, often increasing population extinction risk. Climatic factors can increase the …

Current studies indicate that estimates of thermal tolerance limits in ectotherms depend on
the experimental protocol used, with slower and presumably more ecologically relevant …

Temperature profoundly affects growth and life history traits in ectothermic animals through
selection (ie, genetic) and through direct effects on the phenotype (ie, nongenetic/plasticity) …

The environment is rarely constant and organisms are exposed to spatial and temporal
variation that will impact life-histories. It is important to understand how such variation affects …

Suitably designed experiments offer the possibility of quantifying evolutionary convergence
because the fraction of replicate populations that converge is known. Here I review an …