Tag: natural selection

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

A new PLOS Genetics study finds that bacterial gene positions along the chromosome show gradients in mean and growth-dependent expression ...

A study of Trinidadian guppies finds that ancient chromosomal inversions, some millions of years old, are maintained by female preference ...

A new study shows that zebrafish lacking a key protein-absorption gene gradually recover over generations through genome-wide transcriptional changes that ...

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

A new analysis of eight millet species shows that natural selection, rather than mutation, has predominantly shaped codon usage bias ...

A new PNAS study of black-browed albatrosses finds that evolutionary adaptation alone is unlikely to prevent population declines under climate ...

In the most comprehensive survey of natural selection across our closest living relatives to date, an international team of researchers ...