Most adaption processes have a polygenic genetic basis, but even with the recent explosive
growth of genomic data we are still lacking a unified framework describing the dynamics of …

Genomic and genetic methods allow investigation of how frequently the same genes are
used by different populations during adaptive evolution, yielding insights into the …

Abstract Since Darwin published the “Origin,” great progress has been made in our
understanding of speciation mechanisms. The early investigations by Mayr and Dobzhansky …

Animal coloration is a powerful model for studying the genetic mechanisms that determine
phenotype. Genetic crosses of laboratory mice have provided extensive information about …

Understanding what aspects of evolution are predictable, and repeatable, is a central goal of
biology. Studying phenotypic convergence (the independent evolution of similar traits in …

Parallel phenotypic diversification in closely related species is a rigorous framework for
testing the role of natural selection in evolution. Do parallel phenotypes always diversify by …

Convergence—the independent evolution of the same trait by two or more taxa—has long
been of interest to evolutionary biologists, but only recently has the molecular basis of …

Studies of adaptive evolution have experienced a recent revival in population genetics of
natural populations and there is currently much focus on identifying genomic signatures of …

The role of ecology in the origin of species has been the subject of long-standing interest to
evolutionary biologists. New sources of spatially explicit ecological data allow for large-scale …

Rapid adaptation to novel environments may drive changes in genomic regions through
natural selection. Such changes may be population-specific or, alternatively, may involve …