Comparative studies of the divergence of quantitative traits and neutral molecular markers,
known as Q ST –F ST comparisons, provide a means for researchers to distinguish between …

Debate surrounding the integration of phenotypic plasticity within the neo-Darwinian paradigm
has recently intensified, but is largely dominated by conceptual abstractions. Advances in …

Evidence implicating differential gene expression as a significant driver of evolutionary novelty
continues to accumulate, but our understanding of the underlying sources of variation in …

Disentangling the relative contributions of selective and neutral processes underlying
phenotypic and genetic variation under natural, environmental conditions remains a central …

Analyses of high-throughput transcriptome sequences of non-model organisms are based on
two main approaches: de novo assembly and genome-guided assembly using mapping to …

Adaptation to novel environments can be based either on standing genetic variation or
variation attributable to new mutations. When standing genetic variation for a functional …

Whilst adaptation and phenotypic plasticity might buffer species against habitat degradation
associated with global climate change, few studies making such claims also possess the …

The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) has emerged as an important model
organism in evolutionary ecology, largely due to the repeated, parallel evolution of divergent …

We investigated habitat selection in a trophically dimorphic population of pumpkinseed sunfish
(Lepomis gibbosus) to determine whether littoral and limnetic ecotypes exhibit habitat or …

Intermittent-flow respirometry is widely used to measure oxygen uptake rates and subsequently
estimate aerobic metabolic rates of aquatic animals. However, the lack of a standard …