Bayesian statistical methods have recently made great inroads into many areas of science,
and this advance is now extending to the assessment of association between genetic …

Recent years have seen a rapid expansion in the scope of quantitative genetic analyses
undertaken in wild populations. We illustrate here the potential for such studies to address …

Although many of the statistical techniques used in comparative biology were originally
developed in quantitative genetics, subsequent development of comparative techniques has …

Successful bird migration can depend on individual learning, social learning, and innate
navigation programs. Using 8 years of data on migrating whooping cranes, we were able to …

Best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) is a method for obtaining point estimates of a
random effect in a mixed effect model. Over the past decade it has been used extensively in …

To explore the potential evolutionary relevance of heritable epigenetic variation, the
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center recently hosted a catalysis meeting that brought …

Marine heat waves are increasing in magnitude, duration, and frequency as a result of
climate change and are the principal global driver of mortality in reef‐building corals …

Estimating heritability of traits in wild populations is a major prerequisite to understand their
evolution. Until recently, most heritability estimates had been obtained using parent …

Many central questions in ecology and evolutionary biology require characterizing
phenotypes that change with time and environmental conditions. Such traits are inherently …

The additive genetic variance–covariance matrix (G) summarizes the multivariate genetic
relationships among a set of traits. The geometry of G describes the distribution of …