The overarching goal of this recently funded research project is to understand how the structure of genetic and developmental pathways shapes the trajectory of phenotypic evolution on a phylogenetic ...

“But a selfing flower can use only its own genes to produce ... as these adaptations happened within just 20 generations. “That’s rapid evolution,” Pierre-Olivier Cheptou, the University ...

Trait evolution is not predictable ... Thus, assuming there is not a subsequent change in flower color, all lineages descended from the original population that was fixed for yellow flowers ...