Recently, an article about the causes of behavioral differentiation among shrews, by Leszek Rychlik and co-authors from Portugal (University of Lisbon) and Germany (University of Munich), appeared, in its final form, in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Comparing the behavior in five species of shrews from several locations in Europe, the authors tested if fast-lived species [...]
Genomic analyses reveal adaptive evolution of the fish ectoparasite, Gyrodactylus bullatarudis that is shaped by the combination of gene duplications, divergence and recombination. In a paper by Konczal et al. published in Molecular Ecology, we describe reference genome of /G. bullatarudis/ the authors compare it with other Platyhelminthes. Results suggest that duplications in several gene [...]
Jacek Radwan (Evolutionary Biology Group) and colleagues have published a paper in Trends in Genetics in which they review evolutionary mechanisms explaining landmark features of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, including their extreme polymorphism, and identify open questions in MHC evolution research. Open access!
04.03.2020 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled 'Heterogeneous introgression in newt hybrid zones' will be given by Piotr Zieliński (Genomics and Experimental Evolution Group, Jagiellonian University, Kraków). When: 04.03.2020, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
The impacts of climate change on forests can be dramatic but can also play out via more subtle interactions between different species. A new study published in Nature Plants demonstrates how the overall effect of climate change on tree reproduction depends on complex interactions between climate, the trees, and the insects that eat their seeds. [...]
29.01.2020 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled 'A behavioural ecologist meets meta-analysis and falls in love' will be given by Shinichi Nakagawa (Inter-Disciplinary Ecology and Evolution Lab Evolution & Ecology Research Centre Sydney, Australia). When: 29.01.2020, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
22.01.2020 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled 'When a mail looks like a female, he must have a whistle' will be given by Tomasz Osiejuk (Department of Behavioural Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University). When: 22.01.2020, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
In a new Ideas and Perspectives paper in Ecology Letters, Bogdziewicz et al. review the most relevant proximate drivers of masting and outline a research agenda that takes the biology of masting from a largely observational field of ecology to one rooted in mechanistic understanding. They divide the experimental framework into three main processes: resource [...]
11.12.2019 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled 'What is Darwinian fitness? From individual interactions to population growth' will be given by Krzysztof Argasiński (Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences). When: 11.12.2019, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
Our recent study, done by an international team of scientists led by Marcos Fernandez Martinez from the University of Antwerp, is now published in Nature Plants. In the paper, we used a huge dataset of seed production and nutrient status of plants and showed that plants that are nutrient-poor show stronger masting (larger year-to-year variability) [...]
