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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.

Admixture between ancient lineages, selection, and the formation of sympatric stickleback species-pairs (2019)
Journal Article
Dean, L. L., Magalhaes, I. S., Foote, A., D’Agostino, D., McGowan, S., & MacColl, A. D. (2019). Admixture between ancient lineages, selection, and the formation of sympatric stickleback species-pairs. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36(11), 2481-2497. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz161

Ecological speciation has become a popular model for the development and maintenance of reproductive isolation in closely related sympatric pairs of species or ecotypes. An implicit assumption has been that such pairs originate (possibly with gene fl... Read More about Admixture between ancient lineages, selection, and the formation of sympatric stickleback species-pairs.

Immune state is associated with natural dietary variation in wild mice Mus musculus domesticus (2019)
Journal Article
Taylor, C. H., Young, S., Fenn, J., Lamb, A. L., Lowe, A. E., Poulin, B., …Bradley, J. E. (2019). Immune state is associated with natural dietary variation in wild mice Mus musculus domesticus. Functional Ecology, 33(8), 1425-1435. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13354

1. The ability, propensity and need to mount an immune response vary both among individuals and within a single individual over time. 2. A wide array of parameters have been found to influence immune state in carefully controlled experiments, but... Read More about Immune state is associated with natural dietary variation in wild mice Mus musculus domesticus.

Internal embryonic development in a non-copulatory, egg-laying teleost, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus (2019)
Journal Article
Dean, L. L., Robertson, S., Mahmud, M., & Maccoll, A. D. C. (2019). Internal embryonic development in a non-copulatory, egg-laying teleost, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 2395. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38584-w

The switch from egg-laying to retaining and giving birth to live young is a major transition in the history of life. Despite its repeated evolution across the fishes, records of intermediate phenotypes are vanishingly rare, with only two known cases... Read More about Internal embryonic development in a non-copulatory, egg-laying teleost, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

Predictable genome-wide sorting of standing genetic variation during parallel adaptation to basic versus acidic environments in stickleback fish (2019)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.