Trevor D. Price

TL;DR: The literature on Himalayan biodiversity research has increased annually, especially after 1970, with an acceleration since 2000 as discussed by the authors, but despite an encouraging and rapid increase in research papers during this century, they are largely in low impact factor journals, likely to subject to poor peer review and many doctoral theses remain unpublished.

TL;DR: The identification and sequencing of a gene affecting melanin production in the bananaquit paves the way for much greater understanding of the evolution of plumage patterns in birds, and the developmental modulations involved in producing new patterns.

TL;DR: Present evidence shows that the RNL model works as a good first approximation and points to critical parameters the authors need to measure, such as noise in receptor cells, which are needed to understand how species detect objects in their environment, based on wavelength.

TL;DR: A combined population genetic and quantitative genetic model is used to show how this conflict between the sexes becomes resolved into sexual cooperation, which is most likely when perceptual biases are under selection pressures in other contexts.

TL;DR: A shifting zone of hybridization between two chickadee species helps to understand the proximate mechanisms driving species responses to climate change.