Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are well aware that natural and sexual selection do
not operate on traits in isolation, but instead act on combinations of traits. This long …

Genomics profoundly influences current biology. One of many exciting consequences of this
revolution is the potential for identifying and studying the genetic basis of those traits …

Population genetics theory supplies powerful predictions about how natural selection
interacts with genetic linkage to sculpt the genomic landscape of nucleotide polymorphism …

The selective mechanisms for maintaining polymorphism in natural populations has been
the subject of theory, experiments, and review over the past half century. Advances in …

Parallel phenotypic diversification in closely related species is a rigorous framework for
testing the role of natural selection in evolution. Do parallel phenotypes always diversify by …

The accessibility of new genomic resources, high‐throughput molecular technologies and
analytical approaches such as genome scans have made finding genes contributing to …

Interaction among individuals is universal, both in animals and in plants, and substantially
affects evolution of natural populations and responses to artificial selection in agriculture …

Sexual dimorphism is one of the most prevalent, and often the most extreme, examples of
phenotypic variation within species, and arises primarily from genomic variation that is …

One of the central goals of evolutionary biology is to understand the genetic basis of
adaptive evolution. The availability of nearly complete genome sequences from a variety of …

Balancing selection describes any form of natural selection, which results in the persistence
of multiple variants of a trait at intermediate frequencies within populations. By offering up a …