S. De Lisle

Revisiting evolutionary rate-time relationships

This paper reanalyzes evolutionary rate-time relationships, showing negative scaling is inevitable and often misinterpreted, with time variation explaining most variation across datasets.

Complex community-wide consequences of consumer sexual dimorphism

The paper shows that consumer sexual dimorphism can significantly affect resource coexistence, abundance, and dynamics in a two-resource, one-consumer model.

Evolution of a costly immunity to cestode parasites is a pyrrhic victory

The paper shows that freshwater stickleback populations evolved resistance to tapeworms through fibrosis, but this resistance reduced fecundity, leading to selection for a tolerant strategy with fibrosis suppression.

Interacting phenotypes and the coevolutionary process: Interspecific indirect genetic effects alter coevolutionary dynamics

This study adapts social evolution theory to interspecific interactions, showing that indirect genetic effects can drive coevolution even without direct selection or genetic variance in one species.

Peak shifts and extinction under sex-specific selection

This study shows that moderate to strong genetic correlations between sexes can lead to sex-specific peak shifts in sexual dimorphism, which may be more successful than concordant shifts under extinction pressures.

Phenotypic plasticity is aligned with phenological adaptation on both micro- and macroevolutionary timescales

The paper shows phenotypic plasticity in phenology aligns with adaptation across micro- and macroevolutionary scales in damselflies.

A Multivariate View of Parallel Evolution

The paper introduces multivariate methods to assess parallel evolution by analyzing covariance matrices, revealing greater parallelism in stickleback evolution than previously detected.

Extinction and the temporal distribution of macroevolutionary bursts

The paper models macroevolutionary bursts and extinction by simulating population dynamics with microevolutionary parameters, showing that extinction can explain the apparent stasis in phenotypic evolution.