Most adaption processes have a polygenic genetic basis, but even with the recent explosive
growth of genomic data we are still lacking a unified framework describing the dynamics of …

Durable crop protection is an essential component of current and future food security.
However, the effectiveness of pesticides is threatened by the evolution of resistant …

BACKGROUND Evolution is a strongly historical process, and evolutionary biology is a field
that combines history and science. How the historical nature of evolution affects the …

Apomixis, the clonal formation of seeds, is a rare yet widely distributed trait in flowering
plants. We have isolated the PARTHENOGENESIS (PAR) gene from apomictic dandelion …

Adaptation to life in caves is often accompanied by dramatically convergent changes across
distantly related taxa, epitomized by the loss or reduction of eyes and pigmentation …

INTRODUCTION Access to nutrients such as nitrogen is required for plant growth. Legumes
and nine additional plant families benefit from the nitrogen-fixing root nodule (NFN) …

Phylogenomic studies have resolved countless branches of the tree of life, but remain
strongly contradictory on certain, contentious relationships. Here, we use a maximum …

Discovering the mutational events that fuel adaptation to environmental change remains an
important challenge for evolutionary biology. The classroom example of a visible …

Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) makes ancestral genetic polymorphisms persist during
rapid speciation events, inducing incongruences between gene trees and species trees. ILS …

Marine mammals from different mammalian orders share several phenotypic traits adapted
to the aquatic environment and therefore represent a classic example of convergent …