📣LAST CHANCE TO WIN!! Prize draw will close at 1200 local time #Evol2024 so that the winner can collect their prize at the meeting 😁 Find us in the exhibition hall!

Hello #Evol2024, are you interested in publishing models and how to make them better and fairer? If so, then join us at our symposium “Evolving the Publishing Ecosystem”, this afternoon in room 516D.

I will be talking at 5pm, and present challenges from the perspective of society journals.

Our latest study on breeding phenology of the common lizard made the cover of Journal of Evolutionary Biology . doi.org/10.1093/jeb/vo… Study led with Sandrine MEYLAN, Pierre de Villemereuil , Jean-François Le Galliard 🦎🇺🇦 and the technical assistance of CEREEP-Ecotron IleDeFrance members. iEES Paris #phenology #lizard

Distribution theories for genetic line of least resistance and evolvability measures: Junya Watanabe ow.ly/uNea50T8uUu

This paper from Thomas Hansen argues that distinct modes of evolution at different time scales act to decouple micro- and macroevolution: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-ar…

Exploring the evolutionary potential of egg colour in spotless starlings, we found low heritability and small evolvability for blue-green chroma and size: Stef.darpa Diego Gil Jaime Muriel Raquel Monclús Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez Jesus ow.ly/FRTR50T8BPY

Mating patterns are important bridge between the genepool of one generation to the next. We explore how sexual selection and conflict are shaped by the environment's structural complexity #Drosophila NSERC / CRSNG @laurierBiology Laurier Research ow.ly/n19450T8BXn

Glacial periods were inhospitable and treeless. Combined fossil pollen and molecular evidence show that southern beech trees persisted climate cycles in multiple refugia where hybridisation and later synchronic divergence occurred between sister species: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-ar…

Does selection for female-specific traits affect male fertility traits? Chloe Mason, @B_Tschireen & Dr Nicola Hemmings investigate intersexual relationships in the Japanese quail: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ACCE DTP #openaccess ow.ly/rO9a50T8CaM

Virus populations are genetically and phenotypically diverse after a coevolutionary arms race with their algal hosts Lutz Becks Universität Konstanz ow.ly/a9EL50T8vp4

Experimental evolution of Brassica rapa does not provide strong support for an interaction between flower colonizing microbes and pollinators in shaping floral evolution: Rivest & Forrest ow.ly/9ETs50T8B6n

The physical differentiation of individuals within a group is critical to enable the increased function and complexity of that group. We explore when and how this is most likely to evolve in social insects Lewis Flintham & Jeremy Field University of Exeter CEC ow.ly/Obqw50T8Bkl

How do social interactions shape selection on ecologically relevant behaviours? We find out using an online multiplayer videogame: PO Montiglio Maxime Fraser Franco University of Exeter CEC Dép. Biologie UQAM Behaviour Interactive ow.ly/fq6w50T8vu2

Ion Udroiu and Antonella Sgura from #scienzeromatre show in this article the coevolution of encephalization (increase in brain size) and efficiency of a particular type of DNA repair (Non-Homologous End Joining): ow.ly/V8Pl50T8vHc

Skeletal armour reduction in freshwater sticklebacks is not always parallel evolution. Xueling (Ling) Yi and coauthors found that skeletal armour variation in nine-spined sticklebacks is heterogenous and more polygenic than that of three-spined sticklebacks: ow.ly/5NMk50T8Bs6

Experimental study suggests that sperm competition in hermpahroditic flatworms favours individuals that produce sperm of intermediate size: Santhosh Tim Janicke & Prof. Dieter Ebert University of Basel ow.ly/g6Jk50T8vOb

Some parasites have the superpower to manipulate the phenotype of their hosts. Célia Koellsch, Prof Robert Poulin and Priscila M Salloum at the Zoology_Otago investigated whether microbiomes also play a role in parasite-induced host-phenotypic manipulation ow.ly/iyxj50T8BHL

Continuous variation in the shell colour of the #snail Cepaea nemoralis is associated with the colour locus of the #supergene: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/do…

400+ generations of artificial selection on body size in Drosophila > small flies had lower viability, fecundity, and absolute egg size, but higher relative egg size, compared to large flies: Alison Pischedda Andrew Stewart Avigayil Lev ow.ly/aBcy50T8vUe