Stephen Robert Proulx

The paper shows that small mutations creating phenotypic memory have no first-order selective advantage, while maternal effects conditioned on the environment are under first-order selection.

This study shows that maternal traits evolve adaptively only when maternal environments provide reliable cues predicting offspring selection environments.

The paper shows that sporulation strategies in microbes can lead to coexistence in metapopulations by creating a trade-off between within-deme competition and between-deme dispersal.

The paper shows that bioluminescence in ostracods uses conserved secretory genes alongside novel pathways, supporting a 'legacy-plus-innovation' evolutionary model.

The paper analyzes the evolution of the p53 network across species, showing vertebrate networks enable more complex cell fate decisions than ancestral networks.