Variation in recombination frequency and distribution across eukaryotes: patterns and processes

J Stapley, PGD Feulner… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recombination, the exchange of DNA between maternal and paternal chromosomes during
meiosis, is an essential feature of sexual reproduction in nearly all multicellular organisms …

(Non) parallel evolution

DI Bolnick, RDH Barrett, KB Oke… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Parallel evolution across replicate populations has provided evolutionary biologists with
iconic examples of adaptation. When multiple populations colonize seemingly similar …

pixy: Unbiased estimation of nucleotide diversity and divergence in the presence of missing data

KL Korunes, K Samuk - Molecular ecology resources, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Population genetic analyses often use summary statistics to describe patterns of genetic
variation and provide insight into evolutionary processes. Among the most fundamental of …

Inversion invasions: when the genetic basis of local adaptation is concentrated within inversions in the face of gene flow

SM Schaal, BC Haller… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Across many species where inversions have been implicated in local adaptation, genomes
often evolve to contain multiple, large inversions that arise early in divergence. Why this …

Meta‐analysis of chromosome‐scale crossover rate variation in eukaryotes and its significance to evolutionary genomics

Q Haenel, TG Laurentino, M Roesti… - Molecular ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the distribution of crossovers along chromosomes is crucial to evolutionary
genomics because the crossover rate determines how strongly a genome region is …

Spatially varying selection between habitats drives physiological shifts and local adaptation in a broadcast spawning coral on a remote atoll in Western Australia

L Thomas, JN Underwood, NH Rose, ZL Fuller… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
At the Rowley Shoals in Western Australia, the prominent reef flat becomes exposed on low
tide and the stagnant water in the shallow atoll lagoons heats up, creating a natural …

Clines on the seashore: The genomic architecture underlying rapid divergence in the face of gene flow

AM Westram, M Rafajlović, P Chaube, R Faria… - Evolution …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive divergence and speciation may happen despite opposition by gene flow.
Identifying the genomic basis underlying divergence with gene flow is a major task in …

Polyploid plants have faster rates of multivariate niche differentiation than their diploid relatives

AE Baniaga, HE Marx, N Arrigo, MS Barker - Ecology letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploid speciation entails substantial and rapid postzygotic reproductive isolation of
nascent species that are initially sympatric with one or both parents. Despite strong …

Mechanisms of thermal tolerance in reef-building corals across a fine-grained environmental mosaic: lessons from Ofu, American Samoa

L Thomas, NH Rose, RA Bay, EH López… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Environmental heterogeneity gives rise to phenotypic variation through a combination of
phenotypic plasticity and fixed genetic effects. For reef-building corals, understanding the …

Ancient genomic variation underlies repeated ecological adaptation in young stickleback populations

TC Nelson, WA Cresko - Evolution Letters, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Adaptation in the wild often involves standing genetic variation (SGV), which allows rapid
responses to selection on ecological timescales. However, we still know little about how the …