Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common disorders in women of
reproductive age, affecting up to 15% worldwide, depending on the diagnostic criteria …

Gene flow is a fundamental evolutionary force in adaptation that is especially important to
understand as humans are rapidly changing both the natural environment and natural levels …

In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter
than the" long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is …

The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked
to adaptation to the ecological environment. Specifically, ecological processes are central to …

Local adaptation has been a major focus of evolutionary ecologists working across diverse
systems for decades. However, little of this research has explored variation at …

Few doubt that effective population size (N e) is one of the most important parameters in
evolutionary biology, but how many can say they really understand the concept? N e is the …

Studies of local adaptation provide important insights into the power of natural selection
relative to gene flow and other evolutionary forces. They are a paradigm for testing …

Hybrid zones are, roughly speaking, narrow regions in which genetically distinct populations
meet, mate, and produce hybrids. They are often only a few hundred meters wide and yet …

The evolution of" niche breadth," or" niche width," was a more popular topic in the
evolutionary ecological literature of the 1960s and 1970s than it has been recently (109 …

Population genetic models predict that alleles with small selection coefficients may be
swamped by migration and will not contribute to local adaptation. But if most alleles …