Hypothesis: Natural and sexual selection should be stronger on whole-organism functional
performance traits (sprinting, biting) than on correlated morphological variables. Organisms …

The bipedal stance and gait of theropod dinosaurs evolved gradually along the lineage
leading to birds and at some point (s), flight evolved. How and when did these changes …

Concentrations of acetyl–coenzyme A and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) affect
histone acetylation and thereby couple cellular metabolic status and transcriptional …

A recently developed integrative framework proposes that the vulnerability of a species to
environmental change depends on the species' exposure and sensitivity to environmental …

Urbanization is an increasingly important dimension of global change, and urban areas
likely impose significant natural selection on the species that reside within them. Although …

Investigating the properties of ecological landscapes that influence gene flow among
populations can provide key insights into the earliest stages of biological divergence. Both …

Tropical ectotherms are thought to be especially vulnerable to climate change because they
are adapted to relatively stable temperature regimes, such that even small increases in …

The relationship between phenotype and fitness can be visualized as a rugged landscape.
Multiple fitness peaks on this landscape are predicted to drive early bursts of niche …

In vertebrates, bite force is a measure of whole organism performance that is associated with
both cranial morphology and dietary ecology. Mechanistic studies of bite force production …

Understanding the mechanisms of rapid adaptive radiation has been a central problem of
evolutionary ecology. Recently, there is a growing recognition that hybridization between …