When females prefer mates with rare phenotypes, sexual selection can maintain rather than
deplete genetic variation. However, there is no consensus on why this widespread and …

Classic theory for density-dependent selection for delayed maturation requires that a
population be regulated through some combination of adult fecundity and/or juvenile …

Although rapid phenotypic evolution has been documented often, the genomic basis of rapid
adaptation to natural environments is largely unknown in multicellular organisms …

Human impacts on the natural world often generate environmental trends that can have
detrimental effects on distributions of phenotypic traits. We do not have a good …

Life-history phenotypes emerge from clusters of traits that are the product of genes and
phenotypic plasticity. If the impact of the environment differs substantially between traits …

Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of a single genotype to produce different phenotypes under
different environmental conditions, plays a profound role in several areas of evolutionary …

Livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae) have been used as models to test several aspects of life
history theory. Previous work in these fishes showed that traits such as age and size at …

Copepods play a critical role in the carbon cycle of the planet–they mediate the
sequestration of carbon into the deep ocean and are the trophic link between phytoplankton …

Dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory provides a model of the intrinsic energetic trade‐offs
that shape life histories, in terms of fluxes of energy through biological processes. In these …

Copepods are an essential link in marine foodchains and the global carbon cycle. Climate
change will dramatically reshape food availability for copepods, but we still have no idea …