Evolvability costs of niche expansion

LM Bono, JA Draghi, PE Turner - Trends in genetics, 2020 - cell.com
What prevents generalists from displacing specialists, despite obvious competitive
advantages of utilizing a broad niche? The classic genetic explanation is antagonistic …

Experimental Evolution Studies in Φ6 Cystovirus

S Singhal, AK Balitactac, AG Nayagam… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Experimental evolution studies, in which biological populations are evolved in a specific
environment over time, can address questions about the nature of spontaneous mutations …

Contrasting patterns of genetic and phenotypic divergence of two sympatric congeners, Phragmites australis and P. hirsuta, in heterogeneous habitats

T Qiu, Z Liu, H Li, J Yang, B Liu, Y Yang - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Habitat heterogeneity leads to genome-wide differentiation and morphological and
ecological differentiation, which will progress along the speciation continuum, eventually …

Virus prevalence and genetic diversity across a wild bumblebee community

DJ Pascall, MC Tinsley, BL Clark, DJ Obbard… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Viruses are key population regulators, but we have limited knowledge of the diversity and
ecology of viruses. This is even the case in wild host populations that provide ecosystem …

Remarkably coherent population structure for a dominant Antarctic Chlorobium species

P Panwar, MA Allen, TJ Williams, S Haque… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background In Antarctica, summer sunlight enables phototrophic microorganisms to
drive primary production, thereby “feeding” ecosystems to enable their persistence through …

The evolutionary significance of generalist viruses with special emphasis on plant viruses and their hosts

M Kumar, R Bharti, T Ranjan - The Open Virology Journal, 2020 - benthamopen.com
The host range of a virus is defined as the number of species a virus potentially infects. The
specialist virus infects one or few related species while the generalist virus infects several …