Editor's Choice

22 November 2020
21 November 2023

The Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Evolutionary Biology selects one paper from each issue for its outstanding scientific quality, novelty, innovative approach, important conclusions or its broader research interest. The papers chosen for Editor's Choice to date are listed below.

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2016

Free Access

Sex ratio and gamete size across eastern North America in Dictyostelium discoideum, a social amoeba with three sexes

T. E. Douglas,  J. E. Strassmann,  D. C. Queller, 
Free Access

Testing for a genetic response to sexual selection in a wild Drosophila population

T. P. Gosden,  J. R. Thomson,  M. W. Blows,  A. Schaul,  S. F. Chenoweth, 
Free Access

The influence of space and time on the evolution of altruistic defence: the case of ant slave rebellion

D. Metzler,  F. Jordan,  T. Pamminger,  S. Foitzik, 
Free Access

The accumulation of reproductive isolation in early stages of divergence supports a role for sexual selection

M. D. Martin,  T. C. Mendelson, 
Free Access

Hamilton's rule, inclusive fitness maximization, and the goal of individual behaviour in symmetric two-player games

S. Okasha,  J. Martens, 
Free Access

Early constraints in sexual dimorphism: survival benefits of feminized phenotypes

I. López-Rull,  P. Vergara,  J. Martínez-Padilla,  J. A. Fargallo, 
Free Access

Evolutionary genetic consequences of facultative sex and outcrossing

M. Hartfield, 

2015

Free Access

Rapid evolution of elaborate male coloration is driven by visual system in Australian fairy-wrens (Maluridae)

N. R. Friedman,  V. Remeš, 
Open Access

Evolutionarily advanced ant farmers rear polyploid fungal crops

P. W. Kooij,  D. K. Aanen,  M. Schiøtt,  J. J. Boomsma, 
Open Access

A facultative endosymbiont in aphids can provide diverse ecological benefits

E. R. Heyworth,  J. Ferrari, 
Free Access

Polymorphisms in a desaturase 2 ortholog associate with cuticular hydrocarbon and male mating success variation in a natural population of Drosophila serrata

J. Ivory-Church,  F. D. Frentiu,  S. F. Chenoweth, 
Free Access

The diversification of Heliconius butterflies: what have we learned in 150 years?

R. M. Merrill,  K. K. Dasmahapatra,  J. W. Davey,  D. D. Dell'Aglio,  J. J. Hanly,  B. Huber,  C. D. Jiggins,  M. Joron,  K. M. Kozak,  V. Llaurens,  S. H. Martin,  S. H. Montgomery,  J. Morris,  N. J. Nadeau,  A. L. Pinharanda,  N. Rosser,  M. J. Thompson,  S. Vanjari,  R. W. R. Wallbank,  Q. Yu, 
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Negative association between parental care and sibling cooperation in earwigs: a new perspective on the early evolution of family life?

J. Kramer,  J. Thesing,  J. Meunier, 
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The evolution of respect for property

T. N. Sherratt,  M. Mesterton-Gibbons, 
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Genetic admixture supports an ancient hybrid origin of the endangered Hawaiian duck

P. Lavretsky,  A. Engilis Jr,  J. M. Eadie,  J. L. Peters, 
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Concurrent coevolution of intra-organismal cheaters and resisters

S. R. Levin,  D. A. Brock,  D. C. Queller,  J. E. Strassmann, 
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Diversity and the maintenance of sex by parasites

B. Ashby,  K. C. King, 
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Evolutionary dynamics of interlinked public goods traits: an experimental study of siderophore production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

A. Ross-Gillespie,  Z. Dumas,  R. Kümmerli, 

2014

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Postcopulatory inbreeding avoidance in guppies

J. L. Fitzpatrick,  J. P. Evans, 
Free Access

Grandparental effects in marine sticklebacks: transgenerational plasticity across multiple generations

L. N. S. Shama,  K. M. Wegner,