Zenobia Lewis

TL;DR: 50 research questions of fundamental importance to the science or application of microbial ecology are identified, with the intention of summarising the field and bringing focus to new research avenues.

TL;DR: It is argued that intralocus sexual conflict is likely to play an important role in the evolution of divergent life‐history strategies between the sexes in this species and combined estimates of selection with the additive genetic variance–covariance matrix biases the predicted response of life‐ history traits in the sexes away from the direction of sexually antagonistic selection.

TL;DR: It is shown that female Drosophila pseudoobscura evolved increased remating rates when exposed to the risk of mating with males carrying a deleterious sex ratio–distorting gene that also reduces sperm competitive ability.

TL;DR: The results provide the first evidence that varied ecologically determined mechanisms of kin recognition occur in Drosophila, and that gut bacteria are likely to have a key role in these mechanisms.

TL;DR: The effects of the microbiome on insect hosts have important evolutionary consequences, and the microbiome is at the forefront of an exciting time in the study of manipulated insects.