The majority of the several hundred thousand specialized metabolites produced by plants
function in defense against insects and other herbivores. Despite this diversity, identical …

Neural function depends on maintaining cellular membrane potentials as the basis for
electrical signaling. Yet, in mammals and insects, neuronal and glial membrane potentials …

Convergent evolution in the genomics era: new insights and directions | Philosophical
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On macroevolutionary timescales, extensive mutations and phylogenetic uncertainty mask
the signals of genotype–phenotype associations underlying convergent evolution. To …

In coevolution between plants and insects, reciprocal selection often leads to phenotype
matching between chemical defense and herbivore offense. Nonetheless, it is not well …

The study of reciprocal adaptation in interacting species has been an active and inspiring
area of evolutionary research for nearly 60 years. Perhaps owing to its great natural history …

Although gene duplication is an important source of evolutionary innovation, the functional
divergence of duplicates can be opposed by ongoing gene conversion between them. Here …

The recurrent evolution of resistance to cardiotonic steroids (CTS) across diverse animals
most frequently involves convergent amino acid substitutions in the H1-H2 extracellular loop …

Predicting how species will respond to selection pressures requires understanding the
factors that constrain their evolution. We use genome engineering of Drosophila to …

Poison frogs sequester small molecule lipophilic alkaloids from their diet of leaf litter
arthropods for use as chemical defenses against predation. Although the dietary acquisition …