From the homeostasis of human health to the cycling of Earth's elements, microbial activities
underlie environmental, medical and industrial processes. These activities occur in chemical …

The idea that individual differences in behavior and physiology can be partly understood by
linking them to a fast-slow continuum of life history strategies has become popular in the …

Mutations in non-coding regulatory DNA sequences can alter gene expression, organismal
phenotype and fitness,–. Constructing complete fitness landscapes, in which DNA …

Precise control over microbial cell growth conditions could enable detection of minute
phenotypic changes, which would improve our understanding of how genotypes are shaped …

Theoretical models pertaining to feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes
are prevalent in multiple biological fields. An integrative overview is currently lacking, due to …

In (st) age-structured populations, the long-run population growth rate is negatively affected
by temporal variation in vital rates. In most cases, natural selection should minimize …

Ecology is a fundamental driving force for the evolutionary transition from solitary living to
breeding cooperatively in groups. However, the fact that both benign and harsh, as well as …

The rate of evolution of population mean fitness informs how selection acting in
contemporary populations can counteract environmental change and genetic degradation …

The rate of adaptive evolution, the contribution of selection to genetic changes that increase
mean fitness, is determined by the additive genetic variance in individual relative fitness. To …

The interplay of ecology and evolution has been a rich area of research for decades. A
surge of interest in this area was catalyzed by the observation that evolution by natural …