Publications

Directional selection is often viewed as a transient force in macroevolution, with its signal eroded over time by stabilizing and …

Evolvability—the capacity of populations to respond to selection—is shaped by the structure and amount of variation transmitted from …

Dominant individuals often structure group organization, but less is known about how social networks reorganize in their absence and …

Most genetic polymorphisms associated with complex traits are found in non-coding regions of the genome. Characterizing their effect …

Understanding how organisms vary and evolve requires a multivariate perspective that considers the relationships between multiple …

Evolutionary adaptation to new environments likely results from a combination of selective sweeps and polygenic shifts, depending on …

The extraordinary diversity and adaptive fit of organisms to their environment depends fundamentally on the availability of variation. …

Finding communities in gene co-expression networks is a common first step toward extracting biological insight from such complex …

Validating associations between genotypic and phenotypic variation remains a challenge, despite advancements in association studies. …

Gene expression variance has been linked to organismal function and fitness but remains a commonly neglected aspect of molecular …

How covariance patterns of phenotypes change during development is fundamental for a broader understanding of evolution. There is …

The magnitude of morphological integration is a major aspect of multivariate evolution, providing a simple measure of the intensity of …

Traits do not evolve independently, as genetic and developmental associations affect the variation that is expressed in populations and …

Multivariate quantitative genetics provides a powerful framework for understanding patterns and processes of phenotypic evolution. …

Variation is the basis for evolution, and understanding how variation can evolve is a central question in biology. In complex …

Modularity has emerged as a central concept for evolutionary biology, providing the field with a theory of organismal structure and …

Most of the mammalian diversity is known only from fossils, and only a few of these fossils are well preserved or abundant. This …

Morphological integration refers to the relationships and connections among morphological elements, and is empirically recognized by …

We present an open source package for performing evolutionary quantitative genetics analyses in the R environment for statistical …

Cooperation is ubiquitous across the tree of life, from simple microbes to the complex social systems of animals. Individuals cooperate …

Modularity is a central concept in modern biology, providing a powerful framework for the study of living organisms on many …

Most biological systems are formed by component parts that are to some degree interrelated. Groups of parts that are more associated …

Genetic and phenotypic variance/covariance matrices are a fundamental measure of the amount of variation and the pattern of association …