Recent Submissions

  • Natural Selection, Variation, Adaptation, and Evolution: a Primer of Interrelated Concepts 

    Latta, Robert G.. 2010. "Natural Selection, Variation, Adaptation, and Evolution: a Primer of Interrelated Concepts." International journal of plant sciences 171(9): 930-944.
    Natural selection is an elegantly simple concept but one that can manifest in complex ways. I review how the basic model of single-trait viability selection has been extended to more complex forms of selection on multiple ...
  • Conservation genetics as applied evolution: from genetic pattern to evolutionary process 

    Latta, Robert G.. 2008. "Conservation genetics as applied evolution: from genetic pattern to evolutionary process." Evolutionary Applications 1(1): 84-94.
    Conservation genetics can be seen as the effort to influence the evolutionary process in ways that enhance the persistence of populations. Much published research in the field applies genetic sampling techniques to infer ...
  • Adaptive Value and Costs of Physiological Plasticity to Soil Moisture Limitation in Recombinant Inbred Lines of Avena barbata 

    Maherali, Hafiz, Christina M. Caruso, Mark E. Sherrard, and Robert G. Latta. 2010. "Adaptive Value and Costs of Physiological Plasticity to Soil Moisture Limitation in Recombinant Inbred Lines of Avena barbata." American Naturalist 175(2): 211-224.
    Costs are hypothesized to constrain the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity, but they have been difficult to quantify because strong selection should eliminate costly genotypes from natural populations. However, ...