How do coevolutionary interactions begin in nature, and what are the first steps of reciprocal adaptation? Our preprint investigates these questions in a natural experiment: an introduced cricket (T. oceanicus) and its acoustically hunting parasitoid (O. ochracea) in Hawaii. shorturl.at/7llsA 1/n

Ecological genomics of a novel host-parasitoid arms-race in nature

Novel antagonistic interactions between species are expected to drive especially rapid coevolution. However, little is known about the genomic basis of such coevolution in nature because novel inter-s...

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Ecological genomics of a novel host-parasitoid arms-race in nature https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.30.735478v1

Interacting effects of sex and age on immune responses in a polygynous bat with male-biased mortality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708485v1

New paper on age-related reproductive tactics & success in humpback whales, published in Current Biology.🐳🧬 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #marmam @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social 1/7

New paper out: “allopatric” Drosophila species aren’t so allopatric after all. We show that most currently allopatric species pairs probably overlapped in the past and exchanged genes at levels similar to sympatric pairs. @evolletters.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... [1/6]

Genomic analyses in Drosophila do not support the classic allopatric model of speciation

Abstract. The allopatric model of speciation has dominated our understanding of speciation biology and biogeography since the Modern Synthesis. It is uncon

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Different transcriptional responses to developmental versus short-term acclimation temperatures in Pieris rapae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.11.686846v1

We have a preprint out for our study testing conditions/signatures of repeated adaptation in multiple wild cricket populations. Feedback welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Genomic signatures of local adaptation across parasitised cricket populations

Host-parasite interactions are predicted to exhibit geographic heterogeneity, creating the opportunity for local adaptation. This is difficult to detect because it requires knowledge of selection pres...

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Our new paper on sexual antagonism in sequential hermaphrodites has now been published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Competing adaptations maintain non-adaptive variation in a wild cricket population https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.14.562337v1

Competing adaptations maintain non-adaptive variation in a wild cricket population https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.14.562337v1

How emerging adaptive variants interact is an important factor in the evolution of wild populations.

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