The analysis of polymorphism data is becoming increasingly important as a complementary
tool to classical genetic analyses. Nevertheless, despite plunging sequencing costs …

Life-history traits or “fitness components”—such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and
fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span—are the major phenotypic determinants …

Global climate change (GCC) increasingly threatens biodiversity through the loss of species,
and the transformation of entire ecosystems. Many species are challenged by the pace of …

The genetic architecture of adaptive traits is of key importance to predict evolutionary
responses. Most adaptive traits are polygenic—ie, result from selection on a large number of …

In many species, genomic data have revealed pervasive adaptive evolution indicated by the
fixation of beneficial alleles. However, when selection pressures are highly variable along a …

Evolve and resequence (E&R) is a new approach to investigate the genomic responses to
selection during experimental evolution. By using whole genome sequencing of pools of …

Population genomic data has revealed patterns of genetic variation associated with
adaptation in many taxa. Yet understanding the adaptive process that drives such patterns is …

Clines in chromosomal inversion polymorphisms—presumably driven by climatic gradients—
are common but there is surprisingly little evidence for selection acting on them. Here we …

Adaptation to spatially varying environments has been studied for decades, but advances in
sequencing technology are now enabling researchers to investigate the landscape of …

Genetic variation is the fuel of evolution, with standing genetic variation especially important
for short-term evolution and local adaptation. To date, studies of spatiotemporal patterns of …