Melanism, the overall darkening of the body, is a widespread form of animal adaptation to particular environments, and includes bookcase examples of evolution by natural selection, such as industrial
Oxytricha trifallax undergoes extensive genome rearrangements after mating, as part of the development of a somatic macronuclear genome from a micronuclear germline genome. Here we survey the transcri
Hymenopteran species in which sex is determined through a haplo-diploid mechanism known as complementary sex determination (CSD) are vulnerable to a unique form of inbreeding depression. Diploids hete
