The genomic footprint of sexual selection

By R. Axel W. Wiberg This week my co-authors and I published our paper in Evolution Letters. This study was many years in the making and as well as providing insights into the role of sexual selection in evolution, it is a show-case of the power of long-term experiments, experimental evolution, and comparative genomics. The project …

The Mother’s Curse: Insight into the Effects of Maternal Mitochondrial Inheritance

A new study published in Evolution Letters provides support for the ‘Mother’s Curse’ hypothesis in a more generalisable way than previously demonstrated. Lorcan Carnegie, who is an author on the paper, gives us an overview of the findings. Mitochondria are organelles that drive the production of cellular energy and metabolic substances in many forms of life. Crucially, …