Outputs (25)

Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience (2024)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. F., Albertson, L. K., Algar, A. C., Dugdale, S. J., Edwards, P., England, J., …Wood, P. J. (2024). Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Article e1724. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1724

Rising water temperatures in rivers due to climate change are already having observable impacts on river ecosystems. Warming water has both direct and indirect impacts on aquatic life, and further aggravates pervasive issues such as eutrophication, p... Read More about Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience.

Reproductive isolation in a three‐way contact zone (2024)
Journal Article
Dean, L. L., Whiting, J. R., Jones, F. C., & MacColl, A. D. C. (2024). Reproductive isolation in a three‐way contact zone. Molecular Ecology, 33(5), Article e17275. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17275

Contact zones between divergent forms within a species provide insight into the role of gene flow in adaptation and speciation. Previous work has focused on contact zones involving only two divergent forms, but in nature, many more than two populatio... Read More about Reproductive isolation in a three‐way contact zone.

On the origins of phenotypic parallelism in benthic and limnetic stickleback (2023)
Journal Article
Dean, L. L., Magalhaes, I. S., D’Agostino, D., Hohenlohe, P., & MacColl, A. D. C. (2023). On the origins of phenotypic parallelism in benthic and limnetic stickleback. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(9), Article msad191. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad191

Rapid evolution of similar phenotypes in similar environments, giving rise to in situ parallel adaptation, is an important hallmark of ecological speciation. However, what appears to be in situ adaptation can also arise by dispersal of divergent line... Read More about On the origins of phenotypic parallelism in benthic and limnetic stickleback.

A Common Anaesthetic, MS-222, Alters Measurements Made Using High-Resolution Respirometry in the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (2023)
Journal Article
Barnes, M., Ebanks, B., MacColl, A., & Chakrabarti, L. (2023). A Common Anaesthetic, MS-222, Alters Measurements Made Using High-Resolution Respirometry in the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Fishes, 8(1), Article 42. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8010042

Submersion in the anaesthetic MS-222 is a well-established and effective method used during the euthanasia of fish, but the consequences of treatment with this anaesthetic for mitochondrial respiration are yet to be established. This is important to... Read More about A Common Anaesthetic, MS-222, Alters Measurements Made Using High-Resolution Respirometry in the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

On the origins of phenotypic parallelism in benthic and limnetic stickleback (2022)
Working Paper
Dean, L. L., Magalhaes, I. S., D’Agostino, D., Hohenlohe, P., & MacColl, A. D. C. On the origins of phenotypic parallelism in benthic and limnetic stickleback

Rapid evolution of similar phenotypes in similar environments, giving rise to in situ parallel adaptation, is an important hallmark of ecological speciation. However, what appears to be in situ adaptation can also arise by dispersal of divergent line... Read More about On the origins of phenotypic parallelism in benthic and limnetic stickleback.

The maintenance of standing genetic variation: Gene flow vs. selective neutrality in Atlantic stickleback fish (2021)
Journal Article
Haenel, Q., Guerard, L., MacColl, A. D. C., & Berner, D. (2022). The maintenance of standing genetic variation: Gene flow vs. selective neutrality in Atlantic stickleback fish. Molecular Ecology, 31(3), 811-821. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16269

Adaptation to derived habitats often occurs from standing genetic variation. The maintenance within ancestral populations of genetic variants favourable in derived habitats is commonly ascribed to long-term antagonism between purifying selection and... Read More about The maintenance of standing genetic variation: Gene flow vs. selective neutrality in Atlantic stickleback fish.

Courtship behavior, nesting microhabitat, and assortative mating in sympatric stickleback species pairs (2021)
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Dean, L. L., Dunstan, H. R., Reddish, A., & MacColl, A. D. C. (2021). Courtship behavior, nesting microhabitat, and assortative mating in sympatric stickleback species pairs. Ecology and Evolution, 11(4), 1741-1755. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7164

© 2021 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The maintenance of reproductive isolation in the face of gene flow is a particularly contentious topic, but differences in reproductive behavior may provide the key to ex... Read More about Courtship behavior, nesting microhabitat, and assortative mating in sympatric stickleback species pairs.

Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations (2020)
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Magalhaes, I. S., Whiting, J. R., D’Agostino, D., Hohenlohe, P. A., Mahmud, M., Bell, M. A., …MacColl, A. D. (2020). Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5, 251–261. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01341-8

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Parallelism, the evolution of similar traits in populations diversifying in similar conditions, provides strong evidence of adaptation by natural selection. Many studies of pa... Read More about Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations.

Prior exposure to long-day photoperiods alters immune responses and increases susceptibility to parasitic infection in stickleback (2020)
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Whiting, J. R., Mahmud, M. A., Bradley, J. E., & MacColl, A. D. (2020). Prior exposure to long-day photoperiods alters immune responses and increases susceptibility to parasitic infection in stickleback. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1930), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1017

Seasonal disease and parasitic infection are common across organisms, including humans, and there is increasing evidence for intrinsic seasonal variation in immune systems. Changes are orchestrated through organisms' physiological clocks using cues s... Read More about Prior exposure to long-day photoperiods alters immune responses and increases susceptibility to parasitic infection in stickleback.

Geographical location influences the composition of the gut microbiota in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) at a fine spatial scale (2019)
Journal Article
Goertz, S., de Menezes, A. B., Birtles, R. J., Fenn, J., Lowe, A. E., MacColl, A. D., …Taylor, C. H. (2019). Geographical location influences the composition of the gut microbiota in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) at a fine spatial scale. PLoS ONE, 14(9), Article e0222501. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222501

The composition of the mammalian gut microbiota can be influenced by a multitude of environmental variables such as diet and infections. Studies investigating the effect of these variables on gut microbiota composition often sample across multiple se... Read More about Geographical location influences the composition of the gut microbiota in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) at a fine spatial scale.