Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro-and macroevolution

J Rolland, LF Henao-Diaz, M Doebeli… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Explaining broad molecular, phenotypic and species biodiversity patterns necessitates a
unifying framework spanning multiple evolutionary scales. Here we argue that although …

Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community‐scale data

I Overcast, G Achaz, R Aguilée… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background MacArthur and Wilson's theory of island biogeography has been a
foundation for obtaining testable predictions from models of community assembly and for …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between geographic range size and rates of species diversification

J Smyčka, A Toszogyova, D Storch - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Range size is a universal characteristic of every biological species, and is often assumed to
affect diversification rate. There are strong theoretical arguments that large-ranged species …

Toward a semi-supervised learning approach to phylogenetic estimation

D Silvestro, T Latrille, N Salamin - Systematic Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Models have always been central to inferring molecular evolution and to
reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Their use typically involves the development of a …

Trait-mediated speciation and human-driven extinctions in proboscideans revealed by unsupervised Bayesian neural networks

T Hauffe, JL Cantalapiedra, D Silvestro - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Species life-history traits, paleoenvironment, and biotic interactions likely influence
speciation and extinction rates, affecting species richness over time. Birth-death models …

Glutamine application promotes nitrogen and biomass accumulation in the shoot of seedlings of the maize hybrid ZD958

MU Hassan, MM Islam, R Wang, J Guo, H Luo, F Chen… - Planta, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Main conclusion Glutamine (Gln) is an efficient nitrogen source in promoting
aboveground nitrogen and biomass accumulation in ZD958 (an elite maize hybrid with great …

Sexually divergent selection, allometric constraints, and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in cichlids from Lake Tanganyika

M Tsuboi, T Takahashi - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The evolution of sexual dimorphism is widely acknowledged as a manifestation of sex-
specific genetic architecture. Although empirical studies suggested that sexual dimorphism …

Matrix-analytic methods for the evolution of species trees, gene trees, and their reconciliation

AC Soewongsono, J Diao, T Stark, AE Wilson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We consider the reconciliation problem, in which the task is to find a mapping of a gene tree
into a species tree, so as to maximize the likelihood of such fitting, given the available data …

How important is budding speciation for comparative studies?

DS Caetano, TB Quental - Systematic Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The acknowledgment of evolutionary dependence among species has fundamentally
changed how we ask biological questions. Phylogenetic models became the standard …

Ecological determinants of Cope's rule and its inverse

S Roy, Å Brännström, U Dieckmann - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Cope's rule posits that evolution gradually increases the body size in lineages. Over the last
decades, two schools of thought have fueled a debate on the applicability of Cope's rule by …