Tag: evolutionary biology

A new model shows that arbitrary, costly signals can stabilize cooperation across social dilemmas without revealing hidden quality, because their ...

A new PLOS Biology study unifies energy and proteome allocation models into a single framework that predicts how the resource ...

A new study argues that a honey bee queen and her colony constitute a single superorganism whose natural life cycle ...

A decades-long study of Dutch great tits shows that post-selective immigration, not selection alone, governs whether clutch size evolves or ...

Scientists have discovered Sukunaarchaeum, a marine archaeon with the smallest genome ever found in a microorganism that can still replicate ...

Researchers have shown that an automated imaging pipeline can rapidly and accurately extract size and shape data from endemic Tibetan ...

Nine years of genomic monitoring of a tsunami-created hybrid stickleback population in Japan reveals that foreign marine alleles were purged ...

A population-scale genomic study of Neurospora crassa shows that the fungal defense mechanism RIP pervasively mutates single-copy functional genes, revealing ...

Technion researchers show that when multiple evolutionary paths offer equal fitness, populations deterministically drift toward flatter, more robust regions of ...

A sweeping analysis of nearly 1.4 million papers confirms that vertebrates dominate ecology and evolution research and attract more attention ...