Similar traits and functions commonly evolve in nature. Here, we explore patterns of
replicated evolution across the plant kingdom and discuss the processes responsible for …

Experimental evolution is well-suited to test the predictability of evolution without the
confounding effects of inaccurate forecasts about future environments. Most of the literature …

Soybean (Glycine max) was domesticated from its wild relative Glycine soja. One‐hundred‐
seed weight is one of the most important domesticated traits determining soybean yield; …

Understanding how organisms adapt to the environment is a major goal of modern biology.
Parallel evolution—the independent evolution of similar phenotypes in different populations …

Identifying the genetic architecture underlying adaptive traits is exceptionally challenging in
natural populations. This is because associations between traits not only mask the targets of …

Hybridisation is well documented in many species, especially plants. Although hybrid
populations might be short-lived and do not evolve into new lineages, hybridisaiton could …

Until now the genus Amana (Liliaceae), known as 'East Asian tulips', has contained just
seven species. In this study, a phylogenomic and integrative taxonomic approach was used …

Parallelism between evolutionary trajectories in a trait space is often seen as evidence for
repeatability of phenotypic evolution, and angles between trajectories play a pivotal role in …

One of the major goals of contemporary evolutionary biology is to elucidate the relative roles
of allopatric and ecological differentiation and polyploidy in speciation. In this study, we …

Natural selection is responsible for much of the diversity we see in nature. Just as it drives
the evolution of new traits, it can also lead to new species. However, it is unclear whether …