Michael C. Whitlock

The genetic architecture of local adaptation is historically contingent

This study uses simulations to show how ecological and genetic factors shape the genetic architecture of local adaptation, highlighting the role of demographic history and allele age in genotype-environmental associations.

Evolutionary rescue in a consumer-resource system depends on the affected ecological traits and the population's resident life-history

This study examines how evolutionary rescue in a consumer-resource system depends on ecological traits and population life-history, showing that intrinsic growth rates alone are insufficient for predicting rescue probabilities.

FST and genetic diversity in an island model with background selection

This paper derives novel theory and uses simulations to show that migration reduces background selection's effect on FST but not on πT, particularly in metapopulations with larger effective population sizes.