… 2; Teotónio and Rose 2000). To investigate the genetic causes of a slower response to
selection and only partial convergence, hybrid populations were obtained by crossing the …

The hermaphroditic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been one of the primary model
systems in biology since the 1970s, but only within the last two decades has this nematode …

… Sometimes we care about whether or not it will rain tomorrow; whereas other times, when
we worry about flooding, we care about exactly how much rain will fall in the next 24 h. Also, …

… The ancestral environment features discrete and non-overlapping 2-week generations, with
controlled egg and adult density and egg laying taking place during about 2 h after mixing …

Red Queen dynamics, involving coevolutionary interactions between species, are ubiquitous,
shaping the evolution of diverse biological systems. To date, information on the underlying …

How reversible is adaptive evolution 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ? Studies of microbes give mixed
answers to this question 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 . Reverse evolution has been little studied in sexual …

… After growth to maturity for 66 h ± 2 h at constant 20C and 80% … acid, and water, which after
2 h ± 1 h of activation will produce an … Proulx S, Teotonio H. What kind of maternal effects are …

… (H o ) averaged over LOMAF and HIMAF markers ranged from 0.05 ± 0.11 (N1) to 0.19 ±
0.11 (N3*) and the mean unbiased expected heterozygosity (Nei’s H e ) … When Nei’s H e was …

… Eggs are then maintained in an M9 buffer solution for 16–18 h until all individuals arrest at a
… After the 24-h period, 20 hermaphrodites from each plate were killed with the bleach/ NaOH …

… Given Y and A, heritability can be estimated from REML estimates of genetic and residual
variance as h 2 = σ g 2 / ( σ g 2 + σ e 2 ) . Note that we use the terms h 2 and genomic …