A. A. Comeault

Plastic responses to past environments shape adaptation to novel selection pressures

This study shows ancestral plasticity to salt helped Silene uniflora adapt to zinc in mine-waste environments, demonstrating past-cue plasticity's role in rapid adaptation to novel habitats.

Ancestral neural circuits potentiate the origin of a female sexual behavior

The paper identifies a neural circuit in Drosophila santomea that co-opts an ancestral circuit to drive a new female sexual behavior through social feedback.

Single-fly assemblies fill major phylogenomic gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life

The paper presents 183 new genome assemblies for 179 drosophilid species using single-fly long-read sequencing, improving phylogenomic coverage and enabling a well-resolved multi-locus phylogeny.

Climatic niche conservatism in a clade of disease vectors (Diptera: Phlebotominae)

This study examines climatic niche conservatism in sandflies, finding strong phylogenetic signals and limited transitions between tropical and temperate niches across vector and non-vector species.

Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes

The paper analyzes 155 Drosophila genomes to detect widespread introgression across nine monophyletic radiations, revealing both ancient and recent hybridization events.

Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes

The paper presents high-quality genome assemblies for 101 drosophilid lines using Oxford Nanopore sequencing, achieving high contig N50 and BUSCO completeness.

Rapid Parallel Adaptation to Anthropogenic Heavy Metal Pollution

This study shows that Silene uniflora rapidly adapted to zinc-contaminated soils without gene flow, revealing complex genetic responses to anthropogenic pollution.

Temperature-dependent competitive outcomes between the fruit flies Drosophila santomea and D. yakuba

This study shows that temperature indirectly affects competitive outcomes between Drosophila santomea and D. yakuba, with D. santomea outcompeting D. yakuba at lower temperatures and vice versa at higher temperatures.

Genetic diversity and thermal performance in invasive and native populations of African fig flies

This study shows invasive Zaprionus indianus populations have lower genetic diversity than native populations but maintain higher diversity than non-invasive species, and exhibit a broad thermal niche with no performance difference between invasive and native populations.

The genomic and ecological context of hybridization affect the probability that symmetrical incompatibilities drive hybrid speciation.

The paper uses simulations to explore how genetic architecture and selection influence the likelihood of symmetrical incompatibilities driving homoploid hybrid speciation.