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Pan, Yujia, Chenlong Fu, Changfen Tian, Haoyue Zhang, Xianrong Wang, and Meng Li. "Unraveling the Impact of Environmental Factors and Evolutionary History on Species Richness Patterns of the Genus Sorbus at Global Level." Plants 14, no. 3 (2025): 338. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14030338.

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Understanding the drivers of species richness patterns is a major goal of ecology and evolutionary biology, and the drivers vary across regions and taxa. Here, we assessed the influence of environmental factors and evolutionary history on the pattern of species richness in the genus Sorbus (110 species). We mapped the global species richness pattern of Sorbus at a spatial resolution of 200 × 200 km, using 10,652 specimen records. We used stepwise regression to assess the relationship between 23 environmental predictors and species richness and estimated the diversification rate of Sorbus based

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Ożgo, Małgorzata, Thor-Seng Liew, Nicole B. Webster, and Menno Schilthuizen. "Inferring microevolution from museum collections and resampling: lessons learned from Cepaea." PeerJ 5 (October 27, 2017): e3938. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3938.

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Natural history collections are an important and largely untapped source of long-term data on evolutionary changes in wild populations. Here, we utilize three large geo-referenced sets of samples of the common European land-snail Cepaea nemoralis stored in the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands. Resampling of these populations allowed us to gain insight into changes occurring over 95, 69, and 50 years. Cepaea nemoralis is polymorphic for the colour and banding of the shell; the mode of inheritance of these patterns is known, and the polymorphism is under bot

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Patnaik, Bharat Bhusan, and Yong Seok Lee. "The utility of transcriptomics in the conservation of sensitive and economically important species." Journal of Environmental Biology 44, no. 4 (2023): i—iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.22438/jeb/44/4/editorial.

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The connection between the central dogma of biology [DNA --(Transcription)---› RNA –(Translation)--› Protein] and the 'omics' resources obtained from each molecule are now being exploited by conservation managers to protect biodiversity and ecosystems for sustainable development. Biodiversity doesn't necessarily mean the total number of species, it is more complex and includes genetic diversity within species and the diversity of habitats. Land-use changes, direct harvest, various forms of pollution, and climate change are the biggest threats to biodiversity, most of which are hardly documente

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Kozak, Kenneth H., Catherine H. Graham, and John J. Wiens. "Integrating GIS-based environmental data into evolutionary biology." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23, no. 3 (2008): 141–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.02.001.

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Gerald, Melissa S. "Keywords in evolutionary biology." Ethology and Sociobiology 16, no. 1 (1995): 91–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(95)90012-8.

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Steinel, Natalie C. "The melanomacrophage center is a potential evolutionary precursor to the mammalian germinal center." Journal of Immunology 202, no. 1_Supplement (2019): 73.7. http://dx.doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.202.supp.73.7.

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Abstract The melanomacrophage center (MMC), aggregates of highly pigmented melanomacrophages found within the lymphoid tissues of ectotherm vertebrates, is thought to be the evolutionary precursor to the mammalian germinal center (GC). Studies of cold-blooded vertebrates suggest that the MMC is the site of the humoral adaptive immune response, where B cells proliferate, generate high affinity antibody, and undergo affinity maturation. MMCs transiently increase in size/number following immunization or bacterial infection, supporting the hypothesis that the MMC response is likely linked to the a

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Nesse, Randolph. "What evolutionary biology offers public health." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 86, no. 2 (2008): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/blt.07.049601.

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Bolognesi, Giorgia, Maria Giulia Bacalini, Chiara Pirazzini, Paolo Garagnani, and Cristina Giuliani. "Evolutionary Implications of Environmental Toxicant Exposure." Biomedicines 10, no. 12 (2022): 3090. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10123090.

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Homo sapiens have been exposed to various toxins and harmful compounds that change according to various phases of human evolution. Population genetics studies showed that such exposures lead to adaptive genetic changes; while observing present exposures to different toxicants, the first molecular mechanism that confers plasticity is epigenetic remodeling and, in particular, DNA methylation variation, a molecular mechanism proposed for medium-term adaptation. A large amount of scientific literature from clinical and medical studies revealed the high impact of such exposure on human biology; thu

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Brown, C. R., and D. L. Thomson. "Evolutionary biology and life histories." Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 27, no. 1 (2004): 21–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32800/abc.2004.27.0021.

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The demographic processes that drive the spread of populations through environments and in turn determine the abundance of organisms are the same demographic processes that drive the spread of genes through populations and in turn determine gene frequencies and fitness. Conceptually, marked similarities exist in the dynamic processes underlying population ecology and those underlying evolutionary biology. Central to an understanding of both disciplines is life history and its component demographic rates, such as survival, fecundity, and age of first breeding, and biologists from both fields ha

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Muller, Gerd B. "Embryonic motility: environmental influences and evolutionary innovation." Evolution and Development 5, no. 1 (2003): 56–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-142x.2003.03009.x.

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Haccou, Patsy, and Wim J. van der Steen. "Methodological problems in evolutionary biology." Acta Biotheoretica 40, no. 4 (1992): 285–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00046328.

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Ngoc-Tung, Tran, Hairui Su, Yuheng Lu, Christina S. Leslie, and Xinyang Zhao. "RBM15-Mediated RNA Splicing Fine-Tunes Epigenetic Program through Interaction with SF3B1." Blood 126, no. 23 (2015): 4110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v126.23.4110.4110.

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Abstract RBM15, an RNA binding protein belongs to the SPEN family, which is evolutionally conserved from plant to mammals. The relevance of RBM15 to blood diseases came to spot light when RBM15 was discovered to be involved in chromosome translocation t(1;22) in acute megakaryoblastic leukemia. RBM15 is indispensible for the self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells in response to stress and for megakaryocyte terminal differentiation. RBM15 knockdown results in the unchecked generation of megakaryocyte progenitors in mouse models. At the molecular level, RBM15 have been shown to be a transcript

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van der Steen, Wim J. "Methodological problems in evolutionary biology VI. The force of evolutionary epistemology." Acta Biotheoretica 35, no. 3 (1986): 193–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00052600.

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Du, Chunguang, Edward Buckler, and Spencer Muse. "Development of a Maize Molecular Evolutionary Genomic Database." Comparative and Functional Genomics 4, no. 2 (2003): 246–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cfg.282.

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PANZEA is the first public database for studying maize genomic diversity. It was initiated as a repository of genomic diversity for an NSF Plant Genome project on ‘Maize Evolutionary Genomics’. PANZEA is hosted at the Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, and is open to the public (http://statgen.ncsu.edu/panzea). PANZEA is designed to capture the interrelationships between germplasm, molecular diversity, phenotypic diversity and genome structure. It has the ability to store, integrate and visualize DNA sequence, enzymatic, SSR (simple sequence repeat) marker, germpl

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Turner, Bryan M. "Environmental sensing by chromatin: An epigenetic contribution to evolutionary change." FEBS Letters 585, no. 13 (2010): 2032–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2010.11.041.

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Martins, Rogério Parentoni. "The conceptual structure of evolutionary biology: A framework from phenotypic plasticity." European Journal of Ecology 4, no. 2 (2018): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eje-2018-0018.

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Abstract In this review, I approach the role of phenotypic plasticity as a key aspect of the conceptual framework of evolutionary biology. The concept of phenotypic plasticity is related to other relevant concepts of contemporary research in evolutionary biology, such as assimilation, genetic accommodation and canalization, evolutionary robustness, evolvability, evolutionary capacitance and niche construction. Although not always adaptive, phenotypic plasticity can promote the integration of these concepts to represent some of the dynamics of evolution, which can be visualized through the use

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Lowry, David B. "Landscape evolutionary genomics." Biology Letters 6, no. 4 (2010): 502–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0969.

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Tremendous advances in genetic and genomic techniques have resulted in the capacity to identify genes involved in adaptive evolution across numerous biological systems. One of the next major steps in evolutionary biology will be to determine how landscape-level geographical and environmental features are involved in the distribution of this functional adaptive genetic variation. Here, I outline how an emerging synthesis of multiple disciplines has and will continue to facilitate a deeper understanding of the ways in which heterogeneity of the natural landscapes mould the genomes of organisms.

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Maugarny-Calès, Aude, and Patrick Laufs. "Getting leaves into shape: a molecular, cellular, environmental and evolutionary view." Development 145, no. 13 (2018): dev161646. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.161646.

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Sepkoski, J. John. "Population Biology Models in Macroevolution." Short Courses in Paleontology 4 (1991): 136–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475263000002166.

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Many aspects of a clade's history are reflected in its pattern of diversity through time. Evolutionary radiation is reflected in increasing diversity; cessation of radiation is reflected in stabilization of diversity; response to perturbation is reflected in rapid loss and then often recovery of diversity; and disappearance is sometimes reflected in attenuated decay of diversity. Often, it is of interest not only to describe the history of a clade's diversity, but also to investigate its dynamics: how various aspects of the history relate to its rates of origination and extinction and the resp

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Hauert, Christoph, Camille Saade, and Alex McAvoy. "Asymmetric evolutionary games with environmental feedback." Journal of Theoretical Biology 462 (February 2019): 347–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.11.019.

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Zhao, Changping, Mengru Liu, Huanzheng Du, and Yu Gong. "The Evolutionary Trend and Impact of Global Plastic Waste Trade Network." Sustainability 13, no. 7 (2021): 3662. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13073662.

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Marine plastic waste, global warming, and ozone holes have become global environmental problems that need to be resolved urgently. With the promulgation of plastic bans in many countries, the global plastic waste trade will undergo tremendous change. In order to explore the future evolutionary trend of the global plastic waste trade network, this paper focuses on the analysis of the import and export of plastic waste from major trading countries around the world. Based on the bilateral trade volume of plastic waste from 1990 to 2019, a global plastic waste trade network is constructed, and the

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Crespi, Bernard. "The evolutionary biology of child health." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278, no. 1711 (2011): 1441–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2627.

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I apply evolutionary perspectives and conceptual tools to analyse central issues underlying child health, with emphases on the roles of human-specific adaptations and genomic conflicts in physical growth and development. Evidence from comparative primatology, anthropology, physiology and human disorders indicates that child health risks have evolved in the context of evolutionary changes, along the human lineage, affecting the timing, growth-differentiation phenotypes and adaptive significance of prenatal stages, infancy, childhood, juvenility and adolescence. The most striking evolutionary ch

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Vander Wal, E., D. Garant, M. Festa-Bianchet, and F. Pelletier. "Evolutionary rescue in vertebrates: evidence, applications and uncertainty." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368, no. 1610 (2013): 20120090. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0090.

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The current rapid rate of human-driven environmental change presents wild populations with novel conditions and stresses. Theory and experimental evidence for evolutionary rescue present a promising case for species facing environmental change persisting via adaptation. Here, we assess the potential for evolutionary rescue in wild vertebrates. Available information on evolutionary rescue was rare and restricted to abundant and highly fecund species that faced severe intentional anthropogenic selective pressures. However, examples from adaptive tracking in common species and genetic rescues in

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Peniston, James H., Michael Barfield, Andrew Gonzalez, and Robert D. Holt. "Environmental fluctuations can promote evolutionary rescue in high-extinction-risk scenarios." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, no. 1932 (2020): 20201144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1144.

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Substantial environmental change can force a population onto a path towards extinction, but under some conditions, adaptation by natural selection can rescue the population and allow it to persist. This process, known as evolutionary rescue, is believed to be less likely to occur with greater magnitudes of random environmental fluctuations because environmental variation decreases expected population size, increases variance in population size and increases evolutionary lag. However, previous studies of evolutionary rescue in fluctuating environments have only considered scenarios in which evo

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Guerrero-Bosagna, Carlos, Pablo Sabat, and Luis Valladares. "Environmental signaling and evolutionary change: can exposure of pregnant mammals to environmental estrogens lead to epigenetically induced evolutionary changes in embryos?" Evolution Development 7, no. 4 (2005): 341–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142x.2005.05033.x.

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Voorzanger, Bart. "Methodological problems in evolutionary biology VIII. Biology and culture." Acta Biotheoretica 36, no. 1 (1987): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00159229.

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Chen, Bor-Sen, Chih-Yuan Hsu, and Jing-Jia Liou. "Robust Design of Biological Circuits: Evolutionary Systems Biology Approach." Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2011 (2011): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/304236.

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Artificial gene circuits have been proposed to be embedded into microbial cells that function as switches, timers, oscillators, and the Boolean logic gates. Building more complex systems from these basic gene circuit components is one key advance for biologic circuit design and synthetic biology. However, the behavior of bioengineered gene circuits remains unstable and uncertain. In this study, a nonlinear stochastic system is proposed to model the biological systems with intrinsic parameter fluctuations and environmental molecular noise from the cellular context in the host cell. Based on evo

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Briga, Michael, Robert M. Griffin, Vérane Berger, Jenni E. Pettay, and Virpi Lummaa. "What have humans done for evolutionary biology? Contributions from genes to populations." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284, no. 1866 (2017): 20171164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1164.

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Many fundamental concepts in evolutionary biology were discovered using non-human study systems. Humans are poorly suited to key study designs used to advance this field, and are subject to cultural, technological, and medical influences often considered to restrict the pertinence of human studies to other species and general contexts. Whether studies using current and recent human populations provide insights that have broader biological relevance in evolutionary biology is, therefore, frequently questioned. We first surveyed researchers in evolutionary biology and related fields on their opi

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Cruz, Felix B., Luciana Belver, Juan C. Acosta, Héctor J. Villavicencio, Graciela Blanco, and Maria G. Cánovas. "Thermal biology of Phymaturus lizards: evolutionary constraints or lack of environmental variation?" Zoology 112, no. 6 (2009): 425–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2009.03.004.

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Crean, Angela J., and Simone Immler. "Evolutionary consequences of environmental effects on gamete performance." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376, no. 1826 (2021): 20200122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0122.

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Variation in pre- and post-release gamete environments can influence evolutionary processes by altering fertilization outcomes and offspring traits. It is now widely accepted that offspring inherit epigenetic information from both their mothers and fathers. Genetic and epigenetic alterations to eggs and sperm-acquired post-release may also persist post-fertilization with consequences for offspring developmental success and later-life fitness. In externally fertilizing species, gametes are directly exposed to anthropogenically induced environmental impacts including pollution, ocean acidificati

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Ferriere, Regis, and Stéphane Legendre. "Eco-evolutionary feedbacks, adaptive dynamics and evolutionary rescue theory." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368, no. 1610 (2013): 20120081. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0081.

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Adaptive dynamics theory has been devised to account for feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes. Doing so opens new dimensions to and raises new challenges about evolutionary rescue. Adaptive dynamics theory predicts that successive trait substitutions driven by eco-evolutionary feedbacks can gradually erode population size or growth rate, thus potentially raising the extinction risk. Even a single trait substitution can suffice to degrade population viability drastically at once and cause ‘evolutionary suicide’. In a changing environment, a population may track a viable evolu

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Dukas, Reuven. "Cognitive innovations and the evolutionary biology of expertise." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372, no. 1735 (2017): 20160427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0427.

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Animal life can be perceived as the selective use of information for maximizing survival and reproduction. All organisms including bacteria and protists rely on genetic networks to build and modulate sophisticated structures and biochemical mechanisms for perceiving information and responding to environmental changes. Animals, however, have gone through a series of innovations that dramatically increased their capacity to acquire, retain and act upon information. Multicellularity was associated with the evolution of the nervous system, which took over many tasks of internal communication and c

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Kleine, Tatjana, and Dario Leister. "Evolutionary tinkering: birth of a novel chloroplast protein." Biochemical Journal 403, no. 3 (2007): e13-e14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bj20070312.

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The term ‘evolutionary tinkering’ refers to evolutionary innovation by recombination of functional units, and includes the creation of novel proteins from pre-existing modules. A novel instance of evolutionary tinkering was recently discovered in the flowering plant genus Nicotiana: the conversion of a nuclear transcription factor into the plastid-resident protein WIN4 (wound-induced clone 4) involved in environmental stress responses. In this issue of the Biochemical Journal, Kodama and Sano now show that two steps are necessary for the establishment of the novel plastid protein: the acquisit

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Collins, Sinéad, Philip W. Boyd, and Martina A. Doblin. "Evolution, Microbes, and Changing Ocean Conditions." Annual Review of Marine Science 12, no. 1 (2020): 181–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-010318-095311.

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Experimental evolution and the associated theory are underutilized in marine microbial studies; the two fields have developed largely in isolation. Here, we review evolutionary tools for addressing four key areas of ocean global change biology: linking plastic and evolutionary trait changes, the contribution of environmental variability to determining trait values, the role of multiple environmental drivers in trait change, and the fate of populations near their tolerance limits. Wherever possible, we highlight which data from marine studies could use evolutionary approaches and where marine m

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Bonier, Frances, and Paul R. Martin. "How can we estimate natural selection on endocrine traits? Lessons from evolutionary biology." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283, no. 1843 (2016): 20161887. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1887.

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An evolutionary perspective can enrich almost any endeavour in biology, providing a deeper understanding of the variation we see in nature. To this end, evolutionary endocrinologists seek to describe the fitness consequences of variation in endocrine traits. Much of the recent work in our field, however, follows a flawed approach to the study of how selection shapes endocrine traits. Briefly, this approach relies on among-individual correlations between endocrine phenotypes (often circulating hormone levels) and fitness metrics to estimate selection on those endocrine traits. Adaptive plastici

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Grazer, Vera M., and Oliver Y. Martin. "Investigating Climate Change and Reproduction: Experimental Tools from Evolutionary Biology." Biology 1, no. 2 (2012): 411–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology1020411.

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It is now generally acknowledged that climate change has wide-ranging biological consequences, potentially leading to impacts on biodiversity. Environmental factors can have diverse and often strong effects on reproduction, with obvious ramifications for population fitness. Nevertheless, reproductive traits are often neglected in conservation considerations. Focusing on animals, recent progress in sexual selection and sexual conflict research suggests that reproductive costs may pose an underestimated hurdle during rapid climate change, potentially lowering adaptive potential and increasing ex

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Minelli, Alessandro, and Frederick R. Schram. "Owen revisited: a reappraisal of morphology in evolutionary biology." Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 64, no. 2 (1994): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660644-06402001.

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A new analysis within the framework of developmentalgenetics provides both raw data and theoretical support to the “old” morphology and suggests a new, more predictive, approach to the concept of homology. We distinguish between “positional homologues” and “structural homologues” as independent components of the more general concept of homology. We discuss some general patterns seen in the anatomy of animals and in their morphogenesis. Slack et al. (1993) advanced the concepts of the “zootype”, a particular spatial pattern of gene expression, and the “phylotype”, a particular stage of embryoni

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Hercus, M., and V. Loeschcke'. "Comments to paper by S. Rattan: applying hormesis in aging research and therapy — a perspective from evolutionary biology." Human & Experimental Toxicology 20, no. 6 (2001): 305–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/096032701701548106.

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The phenomenon of hormesis is discussed from an evolutionary biology perspective, i.e. in a context of fitness. Some of the evolutionary theories of aging are outlined. The influence of associations between traits and their environmental specificity is highlighted. Questions about consistency of the impact of hormetic agents across life stages are raised and finally the uniformity of definitions across disciplines is shortly discussed.

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Olson, Randal S., David B. Knoester, and Christoph Adami. "Evolution of Swarming Behavior Is Shaped by How Predators Attack." Artificial Life 22, no. 3 (2016): 299–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00206.

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Animal grouping behaviors have been widely studied due to their implications for understanding social intelligence, collective cognition, and potential applications in engineering, artificial intelligence, and robotics. An important biological aspect of these studies is discerning which selection pressures favor the evolution of grouping behavior. In the past decade, researchers have begun using evolutionary computation to study the evolutionary effects of these selection pressures in predator-prey models. The selfish herd hypothesis states that concentrated groups arise because prey selfishly

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Lipscomb, Barney. "Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Volume 54." Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 18, no. 1 (2024): 186. http://dx.doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v18.i1.1361.

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The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics covers significant developments in the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and systematics, as they apply to all life on Earth. Essay reviews cover topics ranging from phylogeny, speciation, and molecular evolution through behavior and evolutionary physiology to population dynamics, ecosystems processes, and applications in invasion biology, conservation, and environmental management. There are 22 articles.

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Cortez, Michael H., Swati Patel, and Sebastian J. Schreiber. "Destabilizing evolutionary and eco-evolutionary feedbacks drive empirical eco-evolutionary cycles." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, no. 1919 (2020): 20192298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2298.

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We develop a method to identify how ecological, evolutionary, and eco-evolutionary feedbacks influence system stability. We apply our method to nine empirically parametrized eco-evolutionary models of exploiter–victim systems from the literature and identify which particular feedbacks cause some systems to converge to a steady state or to exhibit sustained oscillations. We find that ecological feedbacks involving the interactions between all species and evolutionary and eco-evolutionary feedbacks involving only the interactions between exploiter species (predators or pathogens) are typically s

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Matz, Hanover, Richard S. Taylor, Anthony K. Redmond, et al. "Organized B cell selection sites in cartilaginous fishes reveal the evolutionary foundation of germinal center-based selection." Developmental & Comparative Immunology 148 (November 2023): 104942. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dci.2023.104942.

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Martínez-Padilla, J., A. Estrada, R. Early, and F. Garcia-Gonzalez. "Evolvability meets biogeography: evolutionary potential decreases at high and low environmental favourability." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284, no. 1856 (2017): 20170516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0516.

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Understanding and forecasting the effects of environmental change on wild populations requires knowledge on a critical question: do populations have the ability to evolve in response to that change? However, our knowledge on how evolution works in wild conditions under different environmental circumstances is extremely limited. We investigated how environmental variation influences the evolutionary potential of phenotypic traits. We used published data to collect or calculate 135 estimates of evolvability of morphological traits of European wild bird populations. We characterized the environme

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Tešitel, Jakub. "Functional biology of parasitic plants: a review." Plant Ecology and Evolution 149, no. (1) (2016): 5–20. https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2016.1097.

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<b>Background</b> – Parasitic plants are functionally specialized to acquire at least some essential resources from other plants via specialized organs called haustoria. Parasitism evolved 12 times independently in the evolution of angiosperms of which approximately 1% (4500 species) are parasitic. Not only are parasitic plants diverse in terms of evolutionary origins but also in terms of their physiological functioning and ecological behaviour.<b>Methods </b> – Here, I review the importance of principal functional traits which underlie the physiology and ecology of individual para

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Ezard, Thomas H. G., Steeve D. Côté, and Fanie Pelletier. "Eco-evolutionary dynamics: disentangling phenotypic, environmental and population fluctuations." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364, no. 1523 (2009): 1491–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0006.

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Decomposing variation in population growth into contributions from both ecological and evolutionary processes is of fundamental concern, particularly in a world characterized by rapid responses to anthropogenic threats. Although the impact of ecological change on evolutionary response has long been acknowledged, the converse has predominantly been neglected, especially empirically. By applying a recently published conceptual framework, we assess and contrast the relative importance of phenotypic and environmental variability on annual population growth in five ungulate populations. In four of

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Turner, Bryan M. "Epigenetic responses to environmental change and their evolutionary implications." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364, no. 1534 (2009): 3403–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0125.

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Chromatin is a complex of DNA, RNA, histones and non-histone proteins and provides the platform on which the transcriptional machinery operates in eukaryotes. The structure and configuration of chromatin are manipulated by families of enzymes, some catalysing the dynamic addition and removal of chemical ligands to selected protein amino acids and some directly altering or displacing the basic structural units. The activities of many of these enzymes are sensitive to environmental and metabolic agents and can thereby serve as sensors through which environmental agents can alter gene expression.

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Press, BRIT. "Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Volume 55." Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 19, no. 1 (2025): 16. https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v19.i1.1393.

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There are 21 articles in volume 55. The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics covers significant developments in the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and systematics, as they apply to all life on Earth. Essay reviews cover topics ranging from phylogeny, speciation, and molecular evolution through behavior and evolutionary physiology to population dynamics, ecosystems processes, and applications in invasion biology, conservation, and environmental management.

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Gandhi, Shrey, Frank Ruehle, and Monika Stoll. "Evolutionary Patterns of Non-Coding RNA in Cardiovascular Biology." Non-Coding RNA 5, no. 1 (2019): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ncrna5010015.

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Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) affect the heart and the vascular system with a high prevalence and place a huge burden on society as well as the healthcare system. These complex diseases are often the result of multiple genetic and environmental risk factors and pose a great challenge to understanding their etiology and consequences. With the advent of next generation sequencing, many non-coding RNA transcripts, especially long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), have been linked to the pathogenesis of CVD. Despite increasing evidence, the proper functional characterization of most of these molecules i

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Green, Dustin, and Xinzhong Dong. "The cell biology of acute itch." Journal of Cell Biology 213, no. 2 (2016): 155–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201603042.

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Itch, the irritation we feel and the relief that comes from scratching, is an evolutionary warning system and defense against harmful environmental agents. Although once considered a subtype of pain, itch is now recognized as a unique sense, with its own distinct physiology and cell receptors. Here, we discuss recent advances in our understanding of itch and the molecular players that mediate this sensory modality.

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Davies, T. J., V. Savolainen, M. W. Chase, J. Moat, and T. G. Barraclough. "Environmental energy and evolutionary rates in flowering plants." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 271, no. 1553 (2004): 2195–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2849.

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