Wild animals and plants have developed a variety of adaptive traits driven by adaptive
evolution, an important strategy for species survival and persistence. Uncovering the …

Although it is well appreciated that genetic studies of flowering time regulation have led to
fundamental advances in the fields of molecular and developmental biology, the ways in …

The shift from outcrossing to selfing is common in flowering plants,, but the genomic
consequences and the speed at which they emerge remain poorly understood. An excellent …

Understanding how populations adapt to abrupt environmental change is necessary to
predict responses to future challenges, but identifying specific adaptive variants, quantifying …

Rapid phenotypic changes in traits of adaptive significance are crucial for organisms to
thrive in changing environments. How such phenotypic variation is achieved rapidly, despite …

Background Understanding how organisms evolve and adapt to extreme habitats is of
crucial importance in evolutionary ecology. Altitude gradients are an important determinant …

Gene gain and loss are crucial factors that shape the evolutionary success of diverse
organisms. In the past two decades, more attention has been paid to the significance of …

The article discusses annual and perennial reproductive strategies in plants. Topics
discussed include evolutionary transitions between perenniality and annuality in …

Responses to environmental cues synchronize reproduction of higher plants to the changing
seasons. The genetic basis of these responses has been intensively studied in the …

For decades a small number of model species have rightly occupied a privileged position in
laboratory experiments, but it is becoming increasingly clear that our knowledge of biology is …