supported by the National Science Foundation of America(DEB-0743406);the OU VP for Research Faculty Investment Program.
Evaluating the fitness of hybrids can provide important insights into genetic differences between species or diverging populations.We focused on surface-and cave-ecotypes of the widespread Atlantic molly Poecilia mexi...
supported by the National Research,Development,and Innovation Office of Hungary(K112743).
Selection forces often generate sex-specific differences in various traits closely related to fitness.While in adult spiders(Araneae),sexes often differ in coloration,body size,antipredator,or foraging behavior,such s...
Funding for this study was provided by Barrett the Honors College and the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University(ASU);as well as by a National Science Foundation grant to the CAP LTER program at ASU(award#1637590).
Historically,studies of condition-dependent signals in animals have been male-centric,but recent work suggests that female ornaments can also communicate individual quality(e.g.,disease state,fecundity).There also has...
B.S.W.was funded by the“Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment”(ACCE)Doctoral Training Partnership;which is itself funded by the Natural Environment Research Council(NERC)[NERC grant NE/P002692/1 to T.A.R.P.].
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of short-term heat shocks that threaten the persistence of natural populations.However,most work addressing the evolutionary consequences of anthropogenic enviro...
Breeding coloration of females often signals aspects of their reproductive status,suggesting a link between color and sex steroid hormones.In this study,we examined the relationships between 2 sex steroid hormones(pro...
Inbreeding negatively affects various life-history traits, with inbred individuals typically having lower fit- ness than outbred individuals (=inbreeding depression). Inbreeding depression is often emphasized under ...
The timing of major life-history events, such as migration and moult, is set by endogenous circa-dian and circannual clocks, that have been well characterized at the molecular level. Conversely,the genetic sources of ...