Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Jason Wolf, University of Bath, UK
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Handling Editors
Tim Connallon, Monash University, Australia
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Hélène Morlon, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
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Managing Editor
Melinda Modrell, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Spain
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Review Editors
Mark Kirkpatrick, The University of Texas at Austin
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Ophélie Ronce, CNRS Université de Montpellier, France
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Book Review Editor
James Mallet, Harvard University, USA
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Digest Editor
Kati Moore, Duke University, USA
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Associate Editors
Jessica Abbott, Lund University, Sweden
Interests: Sex chromosome evolution and the genetics of sex differences
Keywords: adaptation, genetic variation, morphological evolution, evolutionary genetics, sexual selection, experimental evolution, sexual conflict
Deepa Agashe, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Interests: Molecular evolution, evolutionary ecology, experimental evolution, insects, microbial evolution, genome evolution
Keywords: mutation, population dynamics, trait evolution, translation, adaptation
Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Interests: I use tools and theories from behavioural ecology, quantitative genetics and population ecology to study the ecological drivers of selection and its demographic consequences. My main interest is in how social behaviour modulates gene-environment interactions and how this affects population dynamics.
Keywords: behavioral ecology, quantitative genetics, population dynamics, social evolution
C. Ruth Archer, University of Ulm, Germany
Interests: Evolution of life-histories and how they are shaped by sexual selection and constrained by nutrition. Understanding how nutrition affects fitness traits (and trade-offs between them) using primarily bumble bees as a model system.
Keywords: sexual selection, nutritional ecology, life-history theory
Ben Ashby, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Interests: Mathematical modelling to understand the epidemiology and (co)evolution of parasites and their hosts, from resistance and virulence, to mating strategies. Research covers a broad range of topics in biology, including the evolution and maintenance of diversity across space and time, sexual selection and reproductive strategies, and niche evolution.
Keywords: ecology and (co)evolution of hosts and their parasites, infectivity, virulence, resistance, host mating strategies, mathematical models
Charles F Baer, University of Florida, USA
Interests: Comparative evolutionary genetics, theoretical population genetics. Generation and maintenance of genetic variation, evolution of mutation rate, and distribution of fitness effects of new mutations. Research program focus: (1) factors that underlie variation in the rate, molecular spectra and phenotypic effects of spontaneous mutations, and (2) extent to which variation in mutational properties explains variation among taxa in standing genetic variation at the phenotypic and molecular level. Rhabditid nematodes as experimental organisms. Experimental evolution to characterize the phenotypic and molecular effects of substrate rigidity on cultured cells.
Keywords: population genetics, quantitative genetics, mutation, fitness, experimental evolution, Caenorhabditis
Regina Baucom, University of Michigan, USA
Interests: Understanding plant adaptation to extreme, human-mediated environments across contexts--e.g., adaptation to herbicide in agricultural weeds, adaptation to climate change, and plant invasions. Constraints on the evolution of plant defense traits. Genome dynamics including transposable element evolution. Co-developer of DiversifyEEB, invested in understanding structural changes that promote diversity, equity and inclusion in evolutionary biology.
Keywords: ecological and evolutionary genetics, adaptation, climate change, population biology, trade-offs, artificial selection, natural selection, variation, quantitative genetics, evolutionary genomics
Stéphanie Bedhomme, CEFE, CNRS, France
Interests: Experimental evolution in bacteria to investigate post-horizontal transfer evolution, the conditions under which hypermutators thrive in populations, adaptation to complex environments or the role of microplastics as hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes exchange. Bacterial genome evolution and the plasticity and intraspecific diversity of their genomes.
Keywords: horizontal gene transfer, antibiotic resistance, bacterial genome evolution, experimental evolution
Alan Bergland, University of Virginia, USA
Interests: Understanding how temporal and spatial fluctuations in selection pressures maintain genetic variation underlying fitness related traits. Behavioral mechanisms and consequences of balancing selection. Testing the importance of environmental variation as a diversifying evolutionary force. Model systems used to address questions related to balancing selection include Drosophila and Daphnia.
Keywords: balancing selection, ecological genetics, molecular basis of local adaptation, temporal dynamics of adaptation
Russell Bonduriansky, University of New South Wales, Australia
Interests: I'm broadly interested in how reproductive strategies evolve and why their evolution often generates conflicts between sexes, how the environment shapes the development of plastic traits within and across generations and how such processes influence evolution, and why organisms deteriorate with age. I do empirical work (mainly with insects) in natural and laboratory populations, and also develop theory.
Keywords: sexual selection and conflict, evolution of sex, parthenogenesis, plasticity, senescence, evolutionary genetics, parental effects, nongenetic inheritance, evolutionary theory
Mariana Braga, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Interests: Evolution of species interactions, in particular of parasitic interactions (in the broad sense, which includes insect-plant interactions). Development of phylogenetic methods, especially for Bayesian inference of model parameters and ancestral states.
Keywords: butterflies, ecological networks, insect-plant interactions, host repertoire evolution, phylogenetic methods
Scott Burgess, Florida State University, USA
Interests: Understanding how selection on dispersal traits influences selection of mating systems, and vice versa. Broad interest in studying the connections between life history evolution, dispersal, and population dynamics, particularly in coastal marine invertebrates (including bryozoans, corals, and mollusks) using a combination of experimental (field and lab) and theoretical approaches.
Keywords: evolution of dispersal, phenotypic and transgenerational plasticity, bet-hedging, mating systems, kin interactions, inbreeding, marine invertebrates, coral ecology and evolution, predictability of environmental fluctuations and
Daniel Caetano, Towson University, Maryland, USA
Interests: I am an evolutionary biologist interested in the development and evaluation of methods to help us understand macro-evolutionary patterns and processes using phylogenetic trees.
Keywords: macroevolution, phylogenetics, comparative methods, diversification, morphological evolution
Vincent Calcagno, Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRAE), France
Interests: Evolutionary ecology and population genetics. General interests: population biology, community ecology, behavioral ecology and movement.
Keywords: evolutionary ecology, population genetics, adaptive dynamics
Christina Caruso, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Interests: Plant evolutionary ecology, including the evolution of gynodioecious breeding systems and the adaptation of plant populations to pollinator decline.
Keywords: evolutionary ecology, quantitative genetics, phenotypic plasticity, phenotypic selection, plant breeding systems
Deborah Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh, UK
Interests: The genetics and evolution of the sex chromosomes (in the guppy and in plants and other organisms). Self-incompatibility, Supergene evolution
Keywords: evolutionary and population genetics and genomics, particularly topics in the general area of the evolution of breeding systems, sex chromosomes, and recombination rates, also balancing selection
Hua Chen, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation, China
Interests: Developing theoretical models and statistical methods for population genetics and computational genomics. Applying the methods to genomic data for the inference of population dynamics and natural selection. Understanding the genetic architecture and evolutionary mechanism underlying complex traits, including morphological phenotypes, metabolic diseases and pathogen resistance.
Keywords: population genetics, evolutionary genomics, population dynamics, demographic inference, adaptive evolution, natural selection, phenotypic evolution, complex traits, statistical inference
Luis-Miguel Chevin, CEFE CNRS, Montpellier, France
Interests: I work on a range of topics relating to adaptive evolution. I’m interested in how the dynamics of this process depend on its underlying genetic and phenotypic mechanisms - including (evolution of) phenotypic plasticity - and how this affects population growth and persistence in changing environments. I combine theoretical modeling, analyses of natural populations, and experimental evolution with microalgae.
Keywords: adaptive evolution, phenotypic plasticity, quantitative genetics, population genetics, experimental evolution, evolutionary theory, models/simulations, natural selection, microalgae
Nathan Clark, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Interests: Molecular evolution of proteins and regulatory regions as related to multiple topics. Computational and comparative genomic strategies to identify loci responding to adaptive challenges, with a focus on vision, diving vertebrates, and lifespan. Evolution of reproductive proteins involved in fertilization and male:female interactions, in abalone, Drosophila, primates, rodents, Lepidoptera and beyond.
Keywords: genomics, comparative genomics, adaptive evolution, convergent evolution, reproductive protein evolution, fertilization, seminal fluid, ejaculates, phylogenetics, phylogenetic methods, computational biology
Brandon S. Cooper, University of Montana, USA
Interests: The acquisition, spread, and maintenance of symbionts in divergent host species. The evolutionary genetic and cellular basis endosymbiont transmission and reproductive manipulations. Local adaptation and the evolution of reproductive isolation.
Keywords: cytoplasmic incompatibility, endosymbiosis, evolutionary genetics, host-microbe interactions, maternal transmission, population biology, Wolbachia
Alison Davis Rabosky, University of Michigan, USA
Interests: Ecological drivers of trait evolution in natural populations; evolution of complex phenotypes; evolution of animal coloration; sensory system evolution and 3-D imaging through CT scanning; comparative phylogenetics and biogeography; innovative uses of and contributions to natural history collections; biodiversity science and conservation; species responses to global change; science education and outreach.
Keywords: trait evolution, evolutionary genetics, evolution of behavior, polymorphism, mimicry, sensory systems, evolutionary ecology, reptiles and amphibians
Luis De León, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Interests: To understand the processes that promote, maintain, and constrain diversification in nature, and how these processes might unfold in the face of human disturbances such as urbanization. Research focuses on diverse Neotropical organisms undergoing adaptive radiation to potentially explain major patterns of diversification.
Keywords: adaptive radiation, eco-evolutionary dynamics, ecological speciation, gene flow, population genetics, phylogenomics
Damian Dowling, Monash University, Australia
Interests: Ecological and genetic processes that shape the evolution of sex differences in physiology and life history. Contributions of mitochondrial genotype to shaping phenotype (mito-nuclear interactions, Mother’s Curse hypothesis). Effects of non-genetic parental effects on transgenerational phenotypes.
Keywords: mitochondria, mitonuclear interactions, sexual selection, transgenerational effects, life-history evolution, evolution of ageing, experimental evolution.
Stewart M. Edie, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Interests: Paleobiology, macroevolution and macroecology of large:scale temporal and spatial patterns in biodiversity. Analysis of phylogenetic, functional, and morphological diversity across modern and fossil specimens. Development of the latitudinal diversity gradient; selection across and recovery from mass extinctions; impacts of evolutionary tradeoffs on clade evolution, particularly those involving morphological integration and modularity. Focus on marine invertebrate systems, especially bivalves—clams, oysters, mussels, cockles, and others.
Keywords: morphological evolution, integration & modularity, morphometrics methodology, functional evolution, macroevolutionary theory, mass extinction, analytical paleobiology (sampling, diversification models), biogeography, multi-level modelling, machine learning
Céline Frère, University of Queensland, Australia
Interests: The central role that animal social behaviour plays in the spread of emerging infectious fungal diseases in nature. Applying approaches from behavioural ecology, network modelling and quantitative genetics, and utilising rare empirical pre- and post-infection data, to generate new understandings about how fungal diseases spread through animal populations, how animal social behaviour influences disease transmission, and how disease-status affects animal social behaviour.
Keywords: urban evolutionary ecology, behavioral adaptation, social evolution, conservation
Jannice Friedman, Queen's University, Canada
Interests: Understanding the causes and consequences of the enormous diversity in plant reproductive strategies. Integrating techniques from quantitative and population genetics, comparative biology, field biology, theory, and genome analysis and mapping, and using these approaches to understand ecological and evolutionary processes that produce and maintain natural variation, including its adaptive significance, the response to selection, and underlying genetic mechanisms.
Keywords: plant evolution, plant reproductive strategies, ecological genetics
Lutz Fromhage, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Interests: Conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory; application of mathematical and simulation models to evolutionary and behavioral ecology; evolution of mating systems, parental care, cooperation.
Keywords: Theory, game theory, adaptation, sexual selection, sexual cannibalism, parental care, social evolution, inclusive fitness
Carmelo Fruciano, University of Catania, Italy
Interests: Phenotypic evolution, broadly defined to include genomic, transcriptomic and ecological covariates of phenotypic variation and spanning across evolutionary scales (micro-/macro-evolution). Methods for the analysis of phenotypic data (in particular, geometric morphometrics).
Keywords: phenotypic evolution, morphology, geometric morphometrics, biometry, speciation, adaptation, adaptive radiation, genomics, transcriptomics
Amanda Gibson, University of Virginia, USA
Interests: Disease ecology and evolution. Research program aims to understand: 1) antagonistic interactions as forces maintaining genetic diversity in host populations; 2) the evolution of parasite defense, including the role of avoidance vs. resistance strategies. Approaches include laboratory manipulations, experimental evolution, and field observations, with guidance from theoretical models.
Keywords: antagonistic (co)evolution of hosts and their parasites; the Red Queen Hypothesis and the evolution of sex; disease transmission; virulence; dispersal; experimental evolution
Josefa González, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Interests: Understanding the genetic basis and the molecular processes underlying adaptation. Identifying the environmental variables relevant for adaptive evolution. Understanding the role of transposable elements in adaptive evolution. Transposable elements identification and dynamics.
Keywords: evolutionary genomics, population genetics, molecular evolution, multi-omics approaches, genome editing, Drosophila, Anopheles
Alejandro González Voyer, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Interests: The phenotypic evolution, diversification and biogeography of various Neotropical model systems, such as the Caribbean radiation of the Eleutherodactylus family of direct developing frogs. Understanding the influence of ecological adaptation and sexual selection on the evolution of this radiation. Differences in longevity and how they affect life history, physiology and behavior using killifish. The factors that influence species differences in relative brain size in different model systems, and the selective factors favoring enlarged brain size and life-history correlates of enlarged brain size.
Keywords: diversification and phenotypic evolution in various Neotropical model systems, life-history, physiology and behavior, evolution of brain size, phylogenetic comparative methods, biogeography
Eric Goolsby, University of Central Florida, USA
Interests: Phylogenetic comparative methods, such as ancestral state reconstruction and tests of correlated trait evolution. Methods for studying function-valued trait evolution in a phylogenetic context, which extend phylogenetic comparative methods such as ancestral state reconstruction and phylogenetics signal tests to a function-valued PGLS framework. Methods for high-dimensional traits to be studied in phylogenetic comparative context. Methods for analyzing extremely large multivariate datasets. Correlated evolutionary history of metal tolerance.
Keywords: plant macroevolution at both the phenotypic and molecular levels, phylogenetic comparative methods development for complex multivariate traits, plant ecophysiology, and phylogenomics approaches
Ashleigh Griffin, University of Oxford, UK
Interests: Social evolution
Keywords: cooperation, behavioral ecology, social evolution, experimental evolution, microbiology
Jonathan Henshaw, University of Freiburg, Germany
Interests: Mathematical modelling of the evolution of animal behaviour, including sex allocation, fertilisation strategies, mating competition, parental care, and sex differences in these traits. I also develop methods to quantify the causes and consequences of natural selection, drawing on quantitative genetics, statistics, and the mathematical theory of causal inference.
Keywords: mathematical modeling, evolutionary game theory, adaptive dynamics, quantitative genetics, causal inference, agent-based simulations, sexual selection, parental care, hermaphroditism
Robin Hopkins, Harvard University, USA
Interests: I study the evolutionary mechanisms driving the process of speciation by incorporating findings from ecological, quantitative genetics, molecular genetics, population genetics, and comparative genomics research. My lab investigates the the forces of selection, mutation, and gene flow during the evolution of reproductive isolation and adaptation. I study the consequences of hybridization both at the proximate level in patterns of genetic and phenotypic variation and at the ultimate level in patterns of evolutionary outcomes.
Keywords: genetics of speciation, reproductive isolation, adaptation, reinforcement, self-incompatibility, pollination, genetic variation
Jen-Pan Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Interests: Speciation, Species Delimitation, Conservation Genomics, Beetles
Keywords: dynastes, lichen, diversification, speciation, delimitation
Frank Jiggins, Cambridge University, UK
Interests: Using genetic approaches to understand the evolution of hosts, parasites and symbionts. This includes the evolution of immune systems and MHC genes, host-parasite coevolution, the evolution of virulence and the evolution of host resistance. Systems include bacterial endosymbionts such as Wolbachia, parasitoid wasps, Drosophila, Aedes aegypti, rabbits and viruses.
Keywords: Drosophila, Aedes, rabbits, Wolbachia, symbionts, viruses, MHC, innate immunity, coevolution, hosts, parasites, parasitoids, mosquitoes
Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Interests: I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in the evolution of phenotypic diversity. I combine quantitative analytical tools, field observations and experimental approaches to investigate the proximate and evolutionary mechanisms that drive of phenotypic diversification at different temporal and spatial scales.
Keywords: ecomorphology, functional morphology, geometric morphometrics, phylogenetic comparative methods, amphibians, reptiles
Lacey Knowles, University of Michigan, USA
Interests: My research focuses on speciation and the processes that initiate or contribute to population divergence. This work spans a wide range of temporal and spatial scales and we work on a diversity of empirical systems (including insects, mammals, fishes, plants and lizards). One major component of the research focuses on the effect of climate change on species diversity. For much of this work, our lab focuses on integrative approaches to generating hypotheses and testing them using genomic data and a range of analytical approaches. A particular focus in the lab is on developing refined hypotheses to test how species-specific traits influence the effects of climate change on patterns of genomic variation. Another primary component of research in the lab focuses on phylogenomics and application of genomic data to study the history of diversification. This work ranges from the conceptual and methodological challenges with inferring phylogenetic relationships when the genealogical history of loci differs. Part of the work also addresses methodological issues with inferring species boundaries, using both genomic and phenotypic data.
Keywords: speciation, phylogeography, phylogenetics, population structure, adaptive radiation, sexual selection
Genevieve Kozak, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Interests: Evolutionary genomics, reproductive isolation, phenotypic plasticity
Keywords: speciation, genomics, plasticity, epigenetics, hybridization, sexual selection
Lukáš Kratochvíl, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: Evolution of sex determining systems, sex chromosomes, evolution of parthenogenesis, sexual size dimorphism.
Keywords: sex chromosome evolution, sex dimorphism, genome analysis
Marcus R. Kronforst, University of Chicago, USA
Interests: Molecular basis of adaptation and speciation in butterflies. Including evolution and genetics of wing pattern mimicry, mating behavior, migration, and plant-insect interactions, utilizing a diversity of methods spanning genomics, statistical and population genetics, phylogenetics, developmental biology, functional genetics, genome editing, animal behavior, fieldwork, and evolutionary theory.
Keywords: adaptation, evo-devo, genomics, population genetics, speciation
Laura Lagomarsino, Louisiana State University, USA
Interests: Systematics and macroevolution of tropical plants
Keywords: phylogenetics, macroevolution, phylogenetic comparative methods, Neotropics, plants, pollination
Catherine Linnen, University of Kentucky, USA
Interests: Patterns and mechanisms of population differentiation and speciation, with an emphasis on ecological speciation and divergence with gene flow in plant-feeding insects. Genetic basis of adaptation and speciation. How haplodiploidy influences evolutionary outcomes. Primary study organisms are pine-feeding hymenopterans (sawflies) in the genus Neodiprion.
Keywords: speciation, reproductive isolation, adaptation, evolutionary genetics/genomics, population genetics/genomics, plant-insect interactions, ecological specialization, haplodiploidy
Lee Hsiang Liow, University of Oslo, Norway
Interests: Links between ecological and evolutionary processes and macroevolutionary patterns, including lineage diversification, phenotypic changes on long time-scales. Accounting for biased and incomplete sampling especially in the fossil record, distinguishing correlative and causal drivers despite heterogenous timeseries data. Inferring the ecological and evolution history of marine invertebrates, especially colonial organisms.
Keywords: macroevolution, paleobiology, paleoecology, ecological interactions, phylogenetics, fossils, bryozoans
Violaine Llaurens, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie (CIRB), Collège de France, France
Interests: Evolution and development of phenotypic variation within populations, species, and clades. Balancing selection mechanisms that promote persistence of adaptive polymorphism and the effect of such selection on the underlying genetic architecture. Characterization of evolutionary mechanisms driving polymorphism in natural populations. The use of a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to address such questions in evolutionary biology.
Keywords: evolution of warning traits, chemical defenses and mating preferences, phenotypic variation, diversity, mimicry, extinction risk, convergent evolution, butterflies, Heliconius
Sara Magalhães, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: 1. The ecology and evolution of interactions, namely that between plants and herbivores and competition and coexistence among herbivores. 2. within- and between-species reproductive interactions. 3. The impact of population structure on sex allocation and sexual selection.
Keywords: competition, coexistence, host-parasite interactions, intraspecific variation, reproductive isolation, mating strategies, sex allocation
Johanna Mappes, University of Helsinki, Finland
Interests: Animal interactions, particularly how the predator community and predator behaviour shape prey traits, communication and evolution. We often use colourful animals as models because they are an excellent tool for understanding adaptation. Animals use colours in social interactions, during sexual communication and in communication between predators and prey and they are involved in thermoregulation, immunity, and environmental shielding. In other words, colours and animal communication provide an excellent opportunity to study interplay between ecology and evolution
Keywords: animal interactions, prey traits, communication and evolution, adaptation
Katrina McGuigan, University of Queensland, Australia
Interests: I am interested in bringing evolutionary quantitative genetic tools to answer questions about natural and manipulated evolution in non-model species, in complex natural environments.
Keywords: evolutionary quantitative genetics, genetics of complex traits, variation
Claire Mérot, CNRS, Université de Rennes, France
Interests: The evolution of biodiversity, The role of genomic architecture and structural variants, Chromosomal rearrangements in adaptation and speciation, Phenotypes and fitness with a large focus on insects. Response to environmental changes.
Keywords: adaptation, population genetics, speciation, genomics, structural variants, insects, signaling/courtship, natural selection, sexual selection, genomes
Andrea S. Meseguer, Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Spain
Interests: My recent research combines genomic tools and macroevolutionary models to reconstruct the evolution of lineages and biomes, with particular emphasis on the patterns driving biotic assemblage over long temporal and broad spatial scales.
Keywords: macroevolution, biogeography, species diversification, phylogeny, genomics, fossils
Amanda Moehring, Western University, Canada
Interests: Genetic and neural basis of behavior, particularly mate preference behavior. The genetic basis of behavioral variation within species and reproductive isolation between species. The evolution of novel trait-preference combinations. Interspecies hybrid sterility. Cryptic female choice.
Keywords: prezygotic and postzygotic isolation, Drosophila, speciation, neuroscience, hybrid dysfunction, mating behavior, mate choice, sexual selection
Charles Mullon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests: Ecological drivers and genetic bases of intra-specific trait variation. Evolutionary and ecological implications of polymorphism.
Keywords: evolutionary theory, adaptation, population structure, social evolution, sexual dimorphism, sexual selection
Siobhan O’Brien, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Interests: 1. Understanding how species interactions shape adaptation to environmental stress in microbial communities. 2. The ecology and evolution of species interactions and implications for ecosystem functioning. 3.Species interactions as drivers of pathogenicity in respiratory infections. 4. Eco-evolutionary dynamics in synthetic and natural microbial communities.
Keywords: evolutionary ecology, microbial ecology, microbial communities, experimental evolution, eco-evolutionary dynamics
Colin Olito, Lund University, Sweden
Interests: I am interested in the evolution of genetic systems underlying reproductive trait diversity, broadly defined, but most of my work is inspired by flowering plants. I use a combination of population genetics theory and genomic data to address a variety of questions related to sex-specific selection, mating system evolution, the evolution of genetic sex determination and sex chromosomes, genome structural evolution, and evolutionary demography.
Keywords: population genetics, genetic variation, sexual conflict, life-history evolution, mating systems, reproductive strategies, evolutionary theory, floral evolutionary ecology, sex chromosomes
John Pannell, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests: The evolution of plant gender, sexual dimorphism, sex allocation strategies, and sex chromosomes; the ecology, genetics and evolution of polyploidy, especially in its interaction with the sexual system; the evolution of local adaptation, particularly in colonizing plant species; and the ecology and population genetics of metapopulations and range expansions subject to repeated local extinctions and re-colonisations.
Keywords: sexual systems, sex allocation, mating systems, life history, plants, sex chromosomes, metapopulations, pollination, local adaptation, polyploidy
Tomomi Parins-Fukuchi, University of Toronto, Canada
Interests: Work in the lab involves developing new computational approaches to bear on two driving questions: 1) what evolutionary processes contribute to the emergence of novel phenotypes? and 2) what are our abilities and limitations in reconstructing the population level processes that shaped major episodes of evolutionary innovation and diversification? We apply these methods and questions across a range of study systems in both plants and animals.
Keywords: computational approaches, phenotypic innovation, phylogenetics, paleobiology, macroevolution, fossils
P. David Polly, Indiana University, USA
Interests: I’m a vertebrate paleontologist who studies the ecology and evolution of mammals and other vertebrates, with special interest in patterns and process of phenotypic evolution.
Keywords: paleontology, phenotypic evolution, morphometrics, vertebrates, community assembly, phylogenetics, systematics, comparative morphology, functional morphology, macroecology
Diogo Borges Provete, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Interests: Macroevolution. Phenotypic evolution, diversification of Neotropical species. The use of phylogenetic comparative methods to study a variety of evolutionary biology questions in a wide array of organisms, especially vertebrates. Quantitative genetics of wild populations. Evolutionary ecology.
Keywords: macroevolution, phenotypic evolution, diversification, phylogenetic comparative methods, quantitative genetics, eco-evolutionary dynamics, herpetology, amphibians
Martin Reichard, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Interests: Understanding how ecological factors shape evolutionary trajectories and how evolutionary adaptations and constraints modify species ecology. I combine fieldwork with controlled experiments in captivity and use behavioural, genetic, histological and physiological approaches.
Keywords: evolutionary ecology, brood parasitism, co-evolutionary dynamics, ageing and its life history consequences, freshwater fishes, evolutionary consequences of biological invasions
Ruth Shaw, University of Minnesota, USA
Interests: Evolutionary processes in contemporary plant populations. The dynamics of evolutionary change in nature are investigated using a combination of quantitative genetics, population biology, and field experiments. Recurring and ongoing research themes include adaptation to climate change and evolutionary consequences of severe fragmentation of populations.
Keywords: evolutionary quantitative genetics, plant population biology
Emma Sherratt, University of Adelaide, Australia
Interests: The application of Morphometrics to study animal structure and function, and infer the evolutionary processes that underlie morphological diversity. Allometry of whole or parts of organisms, and the relationship between biological levels of allometry, especially as a fascilitator or constraining factor on diversity. Vertebrates and invertebrates, but particularly herpetofauna.
Keywords: morphological evolution, macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, allometry, functional morphology, morphological integration
Sandra Steiger, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Interests: Understanding the effect of social isolation on offspring performance, evolutionary genomics of sociality in beetles, species and sex differences in parental behavior, chemical communication.
Keywords: parasite-host interactions, evolutionary genomics of sociality, chemical ecology
Scott Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Interests: Using natural hybrid zones and recent radiations to understand the genetic bases of traits involved in reproductive isolation, population divergence, and speciation, and the impacts of anthropogenic change, including climate change, on species distributions, interactions, and evolution. Natural history and the intersections between art and science, increasing diversity and inclusion.
Keywords: Hybridization, speciation, reproductive isolation, anthropogenic change, birds, population genetics, genomics.
Tiffany B. Taylor, University of Bath, UK
Interests: Microbial experimental evolution in combination with molecular and bioinformatic techniques to understand the evolutionary drivers of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) and genetic features that determine mutation bias. I am also interested in unpicking the evolutionary and ecological drivers of the distribution, maintenance and interactions of bacterial defence systems.
Keywords: experimental evolution, microbial ecology and evolution, molecular evolution, microbial gene regulatory networks, bacterial defence systems, bacteria-phage coevolution
Henrique Teotonio, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Interests: Adaptation and extinction in changing environments, local adaptation, population structure, standing variation, transgenerational inheritance, phenotypic plasticity, reproduction modes, mating systems, sexual conflicts, multivariate phenotypes, recombination rates, pleiotropy, linkage disequilibrium, overdominance, epistasis.
Keywords: population genetics, quantitative genetics, genomics, fitness, self-fertilization, experimental evolution, Caenorhabditis, Drosophila
Maria Thaker, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Interests: Functional integration of morphology, physiology and behaviour, trait variation within and between species, their evolutionary patterns, as well as their implications for adapting to environmental change.
Keywords: predator-prey interactions, physiological and behavioral ecology, movement ecology
Nina Therkildsen, Cornell University, USA
Interests: Understanding of how species adapt to their environment, and how quickly they can respond to altered conditions caused by selective harvest, climate change, or other anthropogenic pressures. Spatial and temporal variation in selection pressures and how they interact to shape patterns of genetic variation within species. The roles of ongoing genetic adaptation and geographic distribution shifts in promoting species persistence. Primary organisms of study are marine and anadromous fish. Core tools include high-throughput sequencing approaches for population genomic studies of non-model organisms.
Keywords: species adaptation to environment, marine and anadromous fish, spatial and temporal variation, population genomics, rapid evolution, conservation genomics
Jeremy Van Cleve, University of Kentucky, USA
Interests: social evolution, population genetics, game theory, theoretical evolution and ecology, mathematical biology
Keywords: population genetics, models/simulations, group-kin selection, behavior, phenotypic plasticity, population structure, evolutionary theory, social behavior
Beatriz Vicoso, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Interests: Biology of sex chromosomes, and the evolutionary processes that shape their peculiar features, using next-generation sequencing technologies with studies in several model and non-model organisms. Genomics of meiotic drive.
Keywords: sex chromosome, dosage compensation, evolutionary genomics, segregation distortion
Yvonne Willi, University of Basel, Switzerland
Interests: The causes of species’ range limits. Constraints to the evolution of the ecological niche. Small population size, genetic drift, and their implications for adaptive evolution. Trade-offs and genetic constraints.
Keywords: evolutionary ecology, adaptation along environmental gradients, population genetics, quantitative genetics, range limits
Matthew Wolak, Auburn University, USA
Interests: How do the main causes of evolution and inheritance interact to shape distributions of phenotypes over time? I study fundamental questions in biology regarding how mating is distributed among individuals, what maintains adaptive genetic variation, and can we predict future adaptive evolution and how populations respond to environmental change.
Keywords: quantitative genetics, evolutionary ecology, sexual dimorphism, temperature dependent sex determination, natural selection, fitness, adaptation, life history evolution, sexual conflict, inbreeding, mutation, seed beetles, turtles, generalized linear mixed effects models, non-additive genetic variance adaptation, quantitative genetics, population genetics, theory
