Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

This study shows a tradeoff between heat shock recovery and growth at elevated temperatures in Methylobacterium strains.

The paper investigates non-ergodicity in ecological and evolutionary dynamics through case studies, showing how stochasticity affects population growth, genotype fitness, and cooperation evolution.

This paper investigates how background selection affects complex trait evolution under different phenotypic selection models, showing that genetic variance changes depend on the relationship between phenotype and fitness.

The paper shows that a few individuals with large haploblocks of adaptive alleles drove rapid freshwater adaptation in Threespine Stickleback, with inbreeding reducing genetic load.

This study shows that the microalga Haematococcus lacustris uses both r and K reproductive strategies throughout its life cycle, challenging the idea that species only use one strategy.

This study shows inbreeding depression persists even without genetic variation, suggesting epigenetic factors may contribute to its persistence.

The paper investigates how spontaneous mutations affect size at birth in Daphnia pulex, finding that mutation effects vary by genetic background and can increase or decrease size.

This study tracks mutation rates and fitness effects in C. elegans under minimal selection, finding increased indel mutation rates and no change in nucleotide substitution rates.

AEGIS models life history trait evolution using individual-based simulations to test ecological and demographic factors' impacts on traits like reproduction and lifespan.

The paper shows capsule exchange in Klebsiella pneumoniae has minimal fitness costs and preserves virulence traits across genetic backgrounds, suggesting plug-and-play dynamics in capsule loci.

This paper develops a model for background selection in non-equilibrium populations, improving accuracy across parameter space and accommodating changing population sizes.

This study models how shared host-pathogen interactions influence resistance gene polymorphism and trans-specific polymorphism in two related host species.

The paper examines temporal and spatial variation in selection on flowering traits in Brassica rapa by analyzing male reproductive fitness across experimental populations.

scoup simulates codon sequences incorporating Darwinian selection as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to bridge phylogenetics and population genetics.

This paper develops a stochastic framework for modeling multivariate trait evolution, showing drift causes directional shifts in genetic covariance matrices, contrasting with common assumptions.

This paper shows that slow migration can help eliminate cooperative antimicrobial resistance in time-varying spatial environments by enhancing extinction probability of resistant bacteria.

This study shows temperature stress disrupts coevolution in a microbial predator-prey system by limiting trait evolution in both species.

This study compares adaptive routes in two yeast species after 10,000 generations, finding parallel but distinct molecular mechanisms of adaptation.

This study shows evolutionary rescue in wild populations during extreme drought by linking genetic variation to population recovery.

This paper shows enzyme kinetic parameters exhibit non-specific epistasis due to multi-state catalytic cycles, and provides tools to correct for this effect in mechanistic inference.

This study examines genome-wide evolution in bacterial prey under ciliate predation, finding that clade dynamics remain similar to those in non-predated populations despite phenotypic and mutational changes.

The paper shows that linkage disequilibria from stabilizing selection slow allele-frequency dynamics and provides more accurate predictions than previous formulas.

This paper revisits the mutation-selection balance model by incorporating fluctuating stabilizing selection, showing that heritability predictions are more consistent with observations under environmental change.

The paper uses phylogenetic analysis to examine natural selection in zoonotic viruses, finding no evidence of pre-zoonotic adaptation for human transmission but detecting selection changes in the 1977 H1N1 reemergence.

The paper develops an eco-evolutionary model to study community assembly mechanisms and identifies how interaction types influence biodiversity and community structure.

This study shows environmental fluctuations can both hinder and promote evolutionary rescue in algae, depending on their amplitude and interaction with long-term environmental trends.

This study uses artificial selection in Drosophila to examine copper resistance and its off-target effects on other traits, finding increased resistance to copper and non-essential metals with associated costs.

This study uses genomic data from Drosophila melanogaster to show how fitness trade-offs manifest under fluctuating selection, identifying genomic regions linked to reproduction and stress tolerance.

The paper tests the nearly-neutral theory across 144 placental mammal genomes, showing correlations between genetic diversity, life-history traits, and selection efficacy at both micro- and macro-evolutionary scales.

This paper introduces BASIL, a Bayesian method to estimate fitness effects of beneficial mutations from BLT data, showing it is more accurate and robust than existing methods.