by admin | Feb 25, 2019 | Evolution
In a paper published in Science in 1994, Dieter Ebert showed, using laboratory experiments on a horizontally-transmitted disease in Daphnia, that spore production and infection was lower when the geographic distance between parasite and wild-caught Daphnia host... by admin | Feb 23, 2019 | Ecology
In a paper published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution in 2000, Robert Colwell and David Lees reviewed the conceptual and empirical literature on the influence of the “mid-domain effect” – geometric constraints in geographic patterns of species... by admin | Feb 17, 2019 | Evolution
In a paper published in Evolutionary Ecology in 1993, Peter Abrams, Hiroyuki Matsuda and Yasushi Harada developed models to examine adaptive change in continuous traits under different conditions, and show that they can result in both stable fitness minima and... by admin | Feb 9, 2019 | Behaviour, Evolution
In a paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology in 1975, Mary Jane West-Eberhard reviewed the literature on kin selection and outlined “social, ecological and developmental factors” that might influence the evolution of beneficial social... by admin | Jan 28, 2019 | Behaviour, Evolution
In a paper published in Biological Reviews in 1970, Geoff Parker reviewed the evidence for sperm competition in nature, discussed why the phenomenon is likely to common in insects and described adaptations in animals to counter sperm competition. Forty-six years after...