Didelphid marsupials are considered a morphologically unspecialized group with a generalist diet that includes vertebrates,invertebrates,and plant matter.While cranium and scapula variation has alreadybeen examined wi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971444,32171533,31770570);Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation(2208085J28).
Understanding the driving mechanism of the divergence of hoarding strategies of animals(i.e.,scatter-hoarding vs.larder-hoarding)is crucial to understand the ecological and evolutionary implications of plant-animal in...
supported by the second National Survey on Terrestrial Wildlife Resources in China.
Deciphering the role of climatic oscillations in species divergence helps us understand the mechanisms that shape global biodiversity.The coldadapted species may have expanded their distribution with the development o...
National Science Foundation grant nos.DBI-1807694 to A.A.S.and DEB-1046408 to C.K.G.,European Commission's Marie Curie grant no.H2020-MSCA-IF-2018,843094 to J.G.R.,and Colorado State University.
Environmental temperature variation may play a significant role in the adaptive evolutionary divergence of ectotherm thermal performance curves(TPCs).However,divergence in TPCs may also be constrained due to various c...
Gene flow and demographic history can play important roles in the adaptive genetic differentiation of species, which is rarely understood in the high-altitude adaptive evolution of birds. To elucidate genetic divergen...
Acknowledgments We thank Kevin Burls, Alan de Queiroz, Chris Feldman, Angela Hornsby, Peter Murphy, Derek Roff, and an anonymous reviewer for insightful criticisms and comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.Funding was provided in part by a National Science Foundation grant to MDM (DEB-0952946) and by an ND EPSCoR grant to NAD.
Groups of organisms-whether multiple species or populations of a single species-can differ in several non-exclusive ways. For example, groups may have diverged phenotypically, genetically, or in the evolutionary respo...
Landscape change provides a suitable framework for investigating population-level responses to novel ecological pressures. However, relatively little attention has been paid to examine the poten- tial influence of lan...
Sexual selection by female choice can shape the evolution of male traits within populations, since the most attractive males experience an increase in fitness through elevated mating success. Speciation by sexual sele...
Acknowlegements We thank Matthew Arnegard, Carlos Botero, Tamra Mendelson, Rafael Rodriqu6z and Sander van Doom for excellent discussions about the need for a new phenotypic distance metric and Maria Servedio for the invitation and encouragement to formalize our ideas. This research was supported as part of the Sexual Selection and Speciation working group by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), NSF #EF-0905606. RJS and SMF were supported by the University of Colorado and National Science Founda- tion grant IOS-0717421to RJS. MK was supported by a grant from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) to the Mathematics and Biosciences Group at the University of Vienna. EAH thanks Mitch Bern for use of his Master's thesis data and was supported by the National Science Foundation grant lOS - 0643179. DEI and DPLT were supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Can- ada (Discovery Grants 311931-2005 and 311931-2010 to DEI, CGS-D to DPLT). NS and JAT were supported by the Royal Society, British Ecological Society and John Fell Fund (Ox- ford University). ES supported by NSF-DDIG the American Ornithologists Union, the University of Chicago, and the American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark award. JACU was funded by National Science Foundation grant lOS 0306175.
Whereas a rich literature exists for estimating population genetic divergence, metrics of phenotypic trait divergence are lacking, particularly for comparing multiple traits among three or more populations. Here, we r...
Morphologically divergent ecotypes arise in fish populations on postglacial time scales, and resource polymorphisms are often invoked to explain their origin. However, genetic recombination can constrain the ability o...