Although hybrid crop varieties are among the most popular agricultural innovations, the
rationale for hybrid crop breeding is sometimes misunderstood. Hybrid breeding is slower …

Key message Genomic prediction based on additive genetic effects can accelerate genetic
gain. There are opportunities for further improvement by including non-additive effects that …

The concept of evolvability emerged in the early 1990s and soon became fashionable as a
label for different streams of research in evolutionary biology. In evolutionary quantitative …

The role of epistasis in the genetic architecture of quantitative traits is controversial, despite
the biological plausibility that nonlinear molecular interactions underpin the genotype …

Summary Publication of The Genetics of Colonizing Species in 1965 launched the field of
invasion genetics and highlighted the value of biological invasions as natural ecological and …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Despite advances in high-throughput sequencing that have revolutionized the discovery of
gene defects in rare Mendelian diseases, there are still gaps in translating individual …

Epistasis, or interactions between genes, has long been recognized as fundamentally
important to understanding the structure and function of genetic pathways and the …

Following the identification of several disease-associated polymorphisms by genome-wide
association (GWA) analysis, interest is now focusing on the detection of effects that, owing to …

The problem of complex adaptations is studied in two largely disconnected research
traditions: evolutionary biology and evolutionary computer science. This paper summarizes …