The importance of DNA methylation in plastic responses to environmental change and
evolutionary dynamics is increasingly recognized. Here, we provide a Perspective piece on …

Animal personality, consistent individual differences in behaviour, is an important concept
for understanding how individuals vary in how they cope with environmental challenges. In …

In an era of global climate change, biodiversity conservation is receiving increased attention.
Conservation efforts are greatly aided by genetic tools and approaches, which seek to …

When facing challenges, vertebrates activate a hormonal stress response that can
dramatically alter behaviour and physiology. Although this response can be costly …

Adverse, postnatal conditions experienced during development are known to induce
lingering effects on morphology, behaviour, reproduction and survival. Despite the …

Ongoing climatic shifts and increasing anthropogenic pressures demand an efficient
delineation of conservation units and accurate predictions of populations' resilience and …

Avian embryos develop in an egg composition which reflects both maternal condition and
the recent environment of their mother. In birds, yolk corticosterone (CORT) influences …

Anthropogenic climate change has led to globally increasing temperatures at an
unprecedented pace and, to persist, wild species have to adapt to their changing world. We …

The epigenome is the suite of interacting chemical marks and molecules that helps to shape
patterns of development, phenotypic plasticity and gene regulation, in part due to its …

Chromatin modifications provide a substrate for epigenetic variation with evolutionary
potential. To quantify the contribution of this layer of variation to evolution we leveraged …