Plasticity's role in adaptive evolution depends on environmental change components

AC Vinton, SJL Gascoigne, I Sepil… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
To forecast extinction risks of natural populations under climate change and direct human
impacts, an integrative understanding of both phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution is …

Fluctuating selection and the determinants of genetic variation

OL Johnson, R Tobler, JM Schmidt, CD Huber - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Recent studies of cosmopolitan Drosophila populations have found hundreds to thousands
of genetic loci with seasonally fluctuating allele frequencies, bringing temporally fluctuating …

The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild

BC Sheldon, LEB Kruuk, SC Alberts - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past seventy-five years, long-term population studies of individual organisms in
their natural environments have been influential in illuminating how ecological and …

Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals

T Bonnet, MB Morrissey, P De Villemereuil, SC Alberts… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The rate of adaptive evolution, the contribution of selection to genetic changes that increase
mean fitness, is determined by the additive genetic variance in individual relative fitness. To …

Population differentiation of polygenic score predictions under stabilizing selection

S Yair, G Coop - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Given the many small-effect loci uncovered by genome-wide association studies (GWAS),
polygenic scores have become central to genomic medicine, and have found application in …

The relevance of pedigrees in the conservation genomics era

SJ Galla, L Brown, Y Couch‐Lewis, I Cubrinovska… - 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past 50 years conservation genetics has developed a substantive toolbox to inform
species management. One of the most long‐standing tools available to manage genetics …

Seasonal variation in dragonfly assemblage colouration suggests a link between thermal melanism and phenology

R Novella-Fernandez, R Brandl, S Pinkert… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Phenology, the seasonal timing of life events, is an essential component of diversity
patterns. However, the mechanisms involved are complex and understudied. Body colour …

Detecting climate signals cascading through levels of biological organization

M Gamelon, S Jenouvrier, M Lindner… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Threats to species under climate change can be understood as a time at which the signal of
climate change in ecological processes emerges from the noise of ecosystem variability …

Seasonal timing on a cyclical Earth: Towards a theoretical framework for the evolution of phenology

JS Park, E Post - PLoS Biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Phenology refers to the seasonal timing patterns commonly exhibited by life on Earth, from
blooming flowers to breeding birds to human agriculture. Climate change is altering abiotic …

Properties of phenotypic plasticity in discrete threshold traits

JM Reid, P Acker - Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Forms of phenotypic plasticity in key traits, and forms of selection on and genetic variation in
such plasticity, fundamentally underpin phenotypic, population dynamic, and evolutionary …