In fact, the power and elegance of selection experiments applied to life-history evolution by Rose and colleagues (Rose and Charlesworth 1980; Service 1987) motivated one of us (R.B.H.) to switch from ...

These novel concepts are published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution. Microbiomes form a significant factor in heredity The study of host–microbe interactions and their involvement in central life ...

New experimental studies by numerous research groups, including the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) in Plön and Kiel University (CAU), suggest that evolutionary medicine could ...

From Mendel to molecules : a brief history of evolutionary genetics / Michael R. Dietrich -- Genetic variation / Marta L. Wayne and Michael M. Miyamota. Maternal effects / Timothy A. Mousseau -- ...

Darwin's other mistake / Michael R. Rose and Theodore Garland Jr. -- The importance of experimental studies in evolutionary biology / Douglas J. Futuyma and Albert F. Bennett -- Modeling experimental ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...