Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, September 2003.
AbstractRe-evolution of complex biological features following the extinction of taxa bearing them remains one of evolution’s most interesting phenomena, but is not amenable to study in fossil taxa. We used communities of digital organisms (computer ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, September 2003.
AbstractThe reproductive compensation hypothesis says that individuals constrained by ecological or social forces to reproduce with partners they do not prefer compensate for likely offspring viability deficits. The reproductive compensation hypothesis ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, September 2003.
AbstractClimate change is likely to spur rapid evolution, potentially altering integrated suites of life-history traits. We examined evolutionary change in multiple life-history traits of the annual plant Brassica rapa collected before and after a recent ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, September 2003.
AbstractEncountering mates and avoiding predators are ubiquitous challenges faced by many organisms and they can affect the expression of many traits including growth, timing of maturity and resource allocation to reproduction. However, these two factors ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, September 2003.
AbstractThe maintenance of genetic variation for infection-related traits is often attributed to coevolution between hosts and parasites, but it can also be maintained by environmental variation if the relative fitness of different genotypes changes with ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, September 2003.
AbstractMany plant species reward their pollinators, whereas some species, particularly among orchids, do not. Similarity of floral cues between co-flowering species influences how rapidly pollinators learn to avoid deceptive plants. This learning process,...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 1117-1124, July 2008.
AbstractAn enduring puzzle in gynodioecious species is the great variation in female frequency seen among populations. We quantified sex ratio in 44 populations of gynodioecious Kallstroemia grandiflora. Then, we measured pollinator visitation, pollen ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 988-996, July 2008.
AbstractOdour-guided behaviour is a quantitative trait determined by many genes that are sensitive to gene–environment interactions. Different natural populations are likely to experience different selection pressures on the genetic underpinnings of ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 1090-1095, July 2008.
AbstractUnderstanding the evolution of multiple mating by females (polyandry) is an important question in behavioural ecology. Most leading explanations for polyandry by social insect queens are based upon a postulated fitness benefit from increased ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 1068-1078, July 2008.
AbstractAlthough there is little doubt that hosts evolve to reduce parasite damage, little is known about the evolutionary time scale on which host populations may adapt under natural conditions. Here we study the effects of selection by the ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 1165-1172, July 2008.
AbstractColouration may either reflect a discrete polymorphism potentially related to life-history strategies, a continuous signal related to individual quality or a combination of both. Recently, Vercken et al. [J. Evol. Biol. (2007) 221] proposed three ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 919-948, July 2008.
AbstractConventional sex roles imply caring females and competitive males. The evolution of sex role divergence is widely attributed to anisogamy initiating a self-reinforcing process. The initial asymmetry in pre-mating parental investment (eggs vs. ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 949-957, July 2008.
AbstractThe study of evolutionary quantitative genetics has been advanced by the use of methods developed in animal and plant breeding. These methods have proved to be very useful, but they have some shortcomings when used in the study of wild populations ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 997-1004, July 2008.
AbstractIn this paper, we test the hypothesis that male sand crickets, Gryllus firmus, experience a trade-off between flight capability and reproductive potential expressed as reduced testis weight in flight-capable morphs. We used a half-sib design with ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 1173, July 2008.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 1024-1029, July 2008.
AbstractTo answer the question whether flowers wave to attract pollinators, we determine: (1) the heritability of floral mobility; (2) whether wavy flowers attract more insects; (3) does the duration of pollination affect seed set; and (4) the ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 958-965, July 2008.
AbstractParasites are ubiquitous and have well-documented ecological consequences. In contrast, the extent to which parasites drive phenotypic evolution in hosts remains obscure. We use a recently developed statistical technique – selective source ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 979-987, July 2008.
AbstractAvian malaria parasites are supposed to exert negative effects on host fitness because these intracellular parasites affect host metabolism. Recent advances in molecular genotyping and microscopy have revealed that coinfections with multiple ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 1055-1067, July 2008.
AbstractFluctuating asymmetry (FA) of a body is expected to be related to an organism’s developmental instability. We studied patterns of FA in the ventral side of the skull along a transect across the central-European portion of the hybrid zone between ...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 1096-1105, July 2008.
AbstractAn adaptive topography is derived for a large randomly mating diploid population under weak density-independent selection in a fluctuating environment. Assuming a stationary distribution of environmental states with no temporal autocorrelation, a ...