Mrudula and Joshua’s paper measuring the incidence and fitness effects of antagonistically pleiotropic mutations is now out in Evolution! As they improve at performing one function, organisms often get worse at another function. Such a negative relationship between two functions (or traits) is called a tradeoff, and is a central idea in evolutionary biology. Tradeoffs... Continue Reading →

A cool infographic about our recent paper on the induction of food preferences in Tribolium larvae. Graphic by Ipsa Jain.