Environmental sequencing shows that plants harbor complex communities of microbes that
vary across environments. However, many approaches for mapping plant genetic variation to …

Chemically defended plant tissues present formidable barriers to herbivores. Although
mechanisms to resist plant defenses have been identified in ancient herbivorous lineages, …

Understanding the processes that generate and maintain genetic variation within populations
is a central goal in evolutionary biology. Theory predicts that some of this variation is …

… Author links open overlay panel Andrew D Gloss 1 , Patrick Abbot 2 , Noah K Whiteman 3 …
flava, Gloss et al. [2 •• ] found a small net loss in genes encoding CYPs and no net change in …

Horizontal gene transfer events have played a major role in the evolution of microbial species,
but their importance in animals is less clear. Here, we report horizontal gene transfer of …

A paradoxical finding from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in plants is that variation
in metabolite profiles typically maps to a small number of loci, despite the complexity of …

Herbivorous insects are among the most successful radiations of life. However, we know little
about the processes underpinning the evolution of herbivory. We examined the evolution …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Despite being highly fertile and occupying a large geographic
region, the North American heartleaf bittercress (Cardamine cordifolia; Brassicaceae) has a …

Organismal phenotypes often co-vary with environmental variables across broad geographic
ranges. Less is known about the extent to which phenotypes match local conditions when …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded tremendous insight into the genetic
architecture of trait variation. However, the collections of loci they uncover are far from …