Patrick T. Rohner

Jan 14, 2025 | biorxiv.org | Patrick T. Rohner |David Berger

AbstractEvolutionary change necessitates genetic variation, and a reigning paradigm in biology is that rates of microevolution can be predicted from estimates of available genetic variation within populations. However, the accuracy of such predictions should decay on longer evolutionary timescales, as the influence of genetic constraints diminishes.

Mar 10, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Armin P Moczek |Patrick T. Rohner |Levi W. Burdine

1 INTRODUCTION Symbionts and hosts possess strong potential to influence each other's development and evolution (McFall-Ngai et al., 2013; Douglas, 2014; Gilbert et al., 2015; Grieneisen et al., 2020). Not surprisingly, both hosts and symbionts have evolved diverse strategies to ensure as well as constrain symbiont transmission across generations (Bright & Bulgheresi, 2010; Correa & Ballard, 2016; Rosenberg & Zilber-Rosenberg, 2021).

Jan 22, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Patrick T. Rohner |Armin P Moczek

AbstractDiverse organisms actively manipulate their (sym)biotic and physical environment in ways that feedback on their own development. However, the degree to which these processes affect microevolution remains poorly understood. The gazelle dung beetle both physically modifies its ontogenetic environment and structures its biotic interactions through vertical symbiont transmission.

Dec 2, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Patrick T. Rohner |Yonggang Hu |Armin P Moczek

1 INTRODUCTION The scaling of relative trait size is integral to organismal function and its evolution represents a major contributor to morphological diversification (Gould, 1966; Schmidt-Nielsen, 1984).

Oct 31, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Armin P Moczek |Patrick T. Rohner

1 INTRODUCTION The environmental variation that organisms experience during development has major impacts on their phenotypes. Rooted in the intrinsic context-dependency of development, such environmental plasticity is ubiquitous and has long been recognized as a major factor in ecology and evolution (Pfennig, 2021; West-Eberhard, 2003).