A cosmopolitan inversion facilitates seasonal adaptation in overwintering Drosophila

JCB Nunez, BA Lenhart, A Bangerter, CS Murray… - Genetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Fluctuations in the strength and direction of natural selection through time are a ubiquitous
feature of life on Earth. One evolutionary outcome of such fluctuations is adaptive tracking …

Experience matters: genetic variation affects male reproductive success across sequential mating events in Drosophila melanogaster

AC Fiumera - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The cost of reproduction is well studied in females but only recently have the costs of mating
been investigated in males. Research suggests that males allocate resources between …

[HTML][HTML] Inversions Can Accumulate Balanced Sexual Antagonism: Evidence from Simulations and Drosophila Experiments

CS McAllester, JE Pool - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms can be common, but the causes of their persistence
are often unclear. We propose a model for the maintenance of inversion polymorphism …

Rapid evolutionary adaptation: Potential and constraints

A Tellier, K Hodgins, W Stephan… - Molecular …, 2024 - research.monash.edu
The vast diversity of life on earth is the result of evolutionary pro-cesses that acted over
billions of years. Historically it was assumed that adaptation and the origin of new species …