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Development of resident and migratory three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus (2024)
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Barnes, M., Chakrabarti, L., & MacColl, A. D. C. (2024). Development of resident and migratory three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0295485. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295485

The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a teleost fish and a model organism in evolutionary ecology, useful for both laboratory and natural experiments. It is especially valued for the substantial intraspecific variation in morpholog... Read More about Development of resident and migratory three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience (2024)
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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, 11(4), 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)
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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)
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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)
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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).

The maintenance of standing genetic variation: Gene flow vs. selective neutrality in Atlantic stickleback fish (2021)
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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.

Geographical location influences the composition of the gut microbiota in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) at a fine spatial scale (2019)
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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.

Predictable genome-wide sorting of standing genetic variation during parallel adaptation to basic versus acidic environments in stickleback fish (2019)
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Haenel, Q., Roesti, M., Moser, D., MacColl, A. D., & Berner, D. (2019). Predictable genome-wide sorting of standing genetic variation during parallel adaptation to basic versus acidic environments in stickleback fish. Evolution Letters, 3(1), 28-42. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.99

Genomic studies of parallel (or convergent) evolution often compare multiple populations diverged into two ecologically different habitats to search for loci repeatedly involved in adaptation. Because the shared ancestor of these populations is gener... Read More about Predictable genome-wide sorting of standing genetic variation during parallel adaptation to basic versus acidic environments in stickleback fish.

DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in stickleback fish (2019)
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Xie, K. T., Wang, G., Thompson, A. C., Wucherpfennig, J. I., Reimchen, T. E., MacColl, A. D. C., …Kingsley, D. M. (2019). DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in stickleback fish. Science, 363(6422), 81-84. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan1425

Evolution generates a remarkable breadth of living forms, but many traits evolve repeatedly, by mechanisms that are still poorly understood. A classic example of repeated evolution is the loss of pelvic hindfins in stickleback fish (Gasterosteus acul... Read More about DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in stickleback fish.

Habitat correlates of Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola abundance in a declining resident population (2018)
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Heward, C. J., Hoodless, A. N., Conway, G. J., Fuller, R. J., MacColl, A. D. C., & Aebischer, N. J. (2018). Habitat correlates of Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola abundance in a declining resident population. Journal of Ornithology, 159(4), 955–965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-018-1570-z

In Europe, woodland bird populations have been declining since at least the 1970s, and in Britain, around one third of woodland bird species have undergone declines over this period. Habitat change has been highlighted as a possible cause, but for so... Read More about Habitat correlates of Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola abundance in a declining resident population.

A genetics-based approach confirms immune associations with life history across multiple populations of an aquatic vertebrate (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (2018)
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Whiting, J. R., Magalhaes, I. S., Singkam, A. R., Robertson, S., D'Agostino, D., Bradley, J. E., & MacColl, A. D. (2018). A genetics-based approach confirms immune associations with life history across multiple populations of an aquatic vertebrate (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Molecular Ecology, 27(15), 3174-3191. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14772

Understanding how wild immune variation covaries with other traits can reveal how costs and trade‐offs shape immune evolution in the wild. Divergent life history strategies may increase or alleviate immune costs, helping shape immune variation in a c... Read More about A genetics-based approach confirms immune associations with life history across multiple populations of an aquatic vertebrate (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

What Are the Environmental Determinants of Phenotypic Selection? A Meta-analysis of Experimental Studies (2017)
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Although many selection estimates have been published, the environmental factors that cause selection to vary in space and time have rarely been identified. One way to identify these factors is by experimentally manipulating the environment and measu... Read More about What Are the Environmental Determinants of Phenotypic Selection? A Meta-analysis of Experimental Studies.

Spatial and temporal variation in macroparasite communities of three-spined stickleback (2016)
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Young, R. E., & MacColl, A. D. (in press). Spatial and temporal variation in macroparasite communities of three-spined stickleback. Parasitology, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182016001815

Patterns in parasite community structure are often observed in natural systems and an important question in parasite ecology is whether such patterns are repeatable across time and space. Field studies commonly look at spatial or temporal repeatabili... Read More about Spatial and temporal variation in macroparasite communities of three-spined stickleback.

Parasites contribute to ecologically dependent postmating isolation in the adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback. (2016)
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El Nagar, A., & MacColl, A. D. (2016). Parasites contribute to ecologically dependent postmating isolation in the adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1836), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0691

Spatial variation in parasitic infections is common, and has the potential to drive population divergence and reproductive isolation of hosts. However, despite support from theory and model laboratory systems, not much strong evidence has been forthc... Read More about Parasites contribute to ecologically dependent postmating isolation in the adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback..

The ecology of an adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback from North Uist, Scotland (2016)
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Magalhaes, I. S., D’Agostino, D., Hohenlohe, P. A., & MacColl, A. D. (2016). The ecology of an adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback from North Uist, Scotland. Molecular Ecology, 25(17), 4319-4336. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13746

There has been a large focus on the genetics of traits involved in adaptation, but knowledge of the environmental variables leading to adaptive changes is surprisingly poor. Combined use of environmental data with morphological and genomic data shoul... Read More about The ecology of an adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback from North Uist, Scotland.