Speciation is a fundamental evolutionary process, the knowledge of which is crucial for
understanding the origins of biodiversity. Genomic approaches are an increasingly …

Reproductive isolation in plants occurs through multiple barriers that restrict gene flow
between populations, but their origins remain uncertain. Work in the past decade has shown …

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary
ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems …

Although much progress has been made in identifying the genes (and, in rare cases,
mutations) that contribute to phenotypic variation, less is known about the effects that these …

Many emerging invasive species display evidence of rapid adaptation. Contemporary
genetic studies demonstrate that adaptation to novel environments can occur within 20 …

Plants provide unique opportunities to study the mechanistic basis and evolutionary
processes of adaptation to diverse environmental conditions. Complementary laboratory …

One of the most remarkable biological insights in the past 30 years has been that many
genetic programs for complex traits, such as flower or limb development, are shared across …

Metabolomics approaches enable the parallel assessment of the levels of a broad range of
metabolites and have been documented to have great value in both phenotyping and …

To quantify adaptive differentiation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, we conducted
reciprocal transplant experiments for five years between two European populations, one …

Speciation is characterized by the evolution of reproductive isolation between two groups of
organisms. Understanding the process of speciation requires the quantification of barriers to …