Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus

AL Crane, KR Bairos‐Novak, JA Goldman… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the natural environment, animals can face potentially dangerous and often regular
exposure to major environmental fluctuations such as flash flooding and drought, or the …

Compiling forty years of guppy research to investigate the factors contributing to (non) parallel evolution

AM Heckley, AE Pearce, KM Gotanda… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Examples of parallel evolution have been crucial for our understanding of adaptation via
natural selection. However, strong parallelism is not always observed even in seemingly …

Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology

T Gräßle, C Crockford, C Eichner… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The selection pressures that drove dramatic encephalisation processes through the
mammal lineage remain elusive, as does knowledge of brain structure reorganisation …

Divergence in brain size and brain region volumes across wild guppy populations

AS Reyes, A Bittar, LC Ávila, C Botia… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Complex evolutionary dynamics have produced extensive variation in brain anatomy in the
animal world. In guppies, Poecilia reticulata, brain size and anatomy have been extensively …

Early predation risk shapes adult learning and cognitive flexibility

C Vila Pouca, DJ Mitchell, J Lefèvre, R Vega‐Trejo… - Oikos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predation risk during early ontogeny can impact developmental trajectories and
permanently alter adult phenotypes. Such phenotypic plasticity often leads to adaptive …

Natural and anthropogenic sources of habitat variation influence exploration behaviour, stress response, and brain morphology in a coastal fish

MR Jenkins, JM Cummings, AR Cabe… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary ecology aims to better understand how ecologically important traits respond to
environmental heterogeneity. Environments vary both naturally and as a result of human …

Experimental translocations to low predation lead to non-parallel increases in relative brain size

DJ Mitchell, R Vega-Trejo, A Kotrschal - Biology Letters, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Predation is a near ubiquitous factor of nature and a powerful selective force on prey.
Moreover, it has recently emerged as an important driver in the evolution of brain anatomy …

Evolutionary divergence of developmental plasticity and learning of mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies

Y Yang, CJ Axelrod, E Grant, SR Earl… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioural plasticity is a major driver in the early stages of adaptation, but its effects in
mediating evolution remain elusive because behavioural plasticity itself can evolve. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Using teleost fish to discern developmental signatures of evolutionary adaptation from phenotypic plasticity in brain structure

ZJ Hall, V Tropepe - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Traditionally, the impact of evolution on the central nervous system has been studied by
comparing the sizes of brain regions between species. However, more recent work has …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the unmapped DNA and RNA reads in a songbird genome

VN Laine, TI Gossmann, K Van Oers, ME Visser… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background A widely used approach in next-generation sequencing projects is the
alignment of reads to a reference genome. Despite methodological and hardware …