Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions

Maternal effects and urbanization: Variation of yolk androgens and immunoglobulin in city and forest blackbirds

(2020) Jesko Partecke et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Gene flow as a simple cause for an excess of high‐frequency‐derived alleles

(2020) Nina Marchi et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Genes acting in synapses and neuron projections are early targets of selection during urban colonization

(2020) Jakob C. Mueller et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Variation in brown rat cranial shape shows directional selection over 120 years in New York City

(2020) Emily E. Puckett et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Parallel selection on thermal physiology facilitates repeated adaptation of city lizards to urban heat islands

(2020) Shane C. Campbell-Staton et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Urban biodiversity management using evolutionary tools

(2020) Max R. Lambert et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An experimental test of changed personality in butterflies from anthropogenic landscapes

(2020) Aurélien Kaiser et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Growing in the city: urban evolutionary ecology of avian growth rates

(2020) Michela Corsini et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Socio‐Eco‐Evolutionary Dynamics in Cities

(2020) Simone Des Roches et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Evidence for the evolution of thermal tolerance but not desiccation tolerance in response to hotter, drier city conditions in a cosmopolitan, terrestrial isopod

(2020) Aaron R. Yilmaz et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Lower bioenergetic costs but similar immune responsiveness under a heatwave in urban compared to rural damselflies

(2020) Nedim Tüzün et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Contemporary adaptive divergence of plant competitive traits in urban and rural populations and its implication for weed management

(2020) Yuya Fukano et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Cold Nights, City Lights: Artificial Light at Night Reduces Photoperiodically Induced Diapause in Urban and Rural Populations of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)

(2020) Katie M Westby et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

(2020) Christopher J. Schell et al.   SCIENCE

High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

(2020) Xiaoping Liu et al.   Nature Sustainability

Toads phenotypically adjust their chemical defences to anthropogenic habitat change

(2019) Veronika Bókony et al.   Scientific Reports

Urban heat islands advance the timing of reproduction in a social insect

(2019) Lacy D. Chick et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Conservation through the lens of (mal)adaptation: concepts and meta‐analysis

(2019) A. M Derry et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Bold New World: urbanization promotes an innate behavioral trait in a lizard

(2019) James Baxter-Gilbert et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A mother’s legacy: the strength of maternal effects in animal populations

(2019) Michael P. Moore et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolution, not transgenerational plasticity, explains the adaptive divergence of acorn ant thermal tolerance across an urban–rural temperature cline

(2019) Ryan A. Martin et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Gene flow and genetic drift in urban environments

(2019) Lindsay S. Miles et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Thermoregulatory Behavior Simultaneously Promotes and Forestalls Evolution in a Tropical Lizard

(2018) Martha M. Muñoz et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

City life on fast lanes: urbanization induces an evolutionary shift towards a faster life style in the water flea Daphnia

(2018) Kristien I. Brans et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Urbanization drives contemporary evolution in stream fish

(2018) Elizabeth M. A. Kern et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Thermal spikes from the urban heat island increase mortality and alter physiology of lizard embryos

(2018) Joshua M. Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Urban Evolutionary Ecology and the Potential Benefits of Implementing Genomics

(2018) Christopher J Schell   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Pathways to fitness: carry-over effects of late hatching and urbanisation on lifetime mating success

(2018) Nedim Tüzün et al.   OIKOS

Contrasting the effects of natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow on urban evolution in white clover (Trifolium repens)

(2018) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Urbanization drives genetic differentiation in physiology and structures the evolution of pace-of-life syndromes in the water fleaDaphnia magna

(2018) Kristien I. Brans et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Little plant, big city: a test of adaptation to urban environments in common ragweed ( Ambrosia artemisiifolia )

(2018) Amanda J. Gorton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Urban versus forest ecotypes are not explained by divergent reproductive selection

(2018) Aude E. Caizergues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of plasticity in the city: urban acorn ants can better tolerate more rapid increases in environmental temperature

(2018) Sarah E Diamond et al.   Conservation Physiology

Urban hubs of connectivity: contrasting patterns of gene flow within and among cities in the western black widow spider

(2018) Lindsay S. Miles et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phenotypic selection on floral traits in an urban landscape

(2018) Rebecca E. Irwin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trait-dependent tolerance of bats to urbanization: a global meta-analysis

(2018) Kirsten Jung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Changing environmental gradients over forty years alter ecomorphological variation in Guadalupe Bass Micropterus treculii throughout a river basin

(2018) Jessica E. Pease et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Mechanisms of Plastic Rescue in Novel Environments

(2018) Emilie C. Snell-Rood et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Urbanisation and sex affect the consistency of butterfly personality across metamorphosis

(2018) Aurélien Kaiser et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

One strategy does not fit all: determinants of urban adaptation in mammals

(2018) Luca Santini et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology

(2018) L. Ruth Rivkin et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Reduced light avoidance in spiders from populations in light-polluted urban environments

(2018) Tomer J. Czaczkes et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Adaptive changes in sexual signalling in response to urbanization

(2018) Wouter Halfwerk et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Microgeographic differentiation in thermal performance curves between rural and urban populations of an aquatic insect

(2017) Nedim Tüzün et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Transgenerational plasticity and climate change experiments: Where do we go from here?

(2017) Jennifer M. Donelson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The heat is on: Genetic adaptation to urbanization mediated by thermal tolerance and body size

(2017) Kristien I. Brans et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pollinators exert positive selection on flower size on urban, but not on rural Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius L. Link)

(2017) Robert Frederick Bode et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Pollutants and Insecticides Drive Local Adaptation in African Malaria Mosquitoes

(2017) Colince Kamdem et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Archipelagos of the Anthropocene: rapid and extensive differentiation of native terrestrial vertebrates in a single metropolis

(2017) Bethan L. Littleford-Colquhoun et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Signatures of positive selection and local adaptation to urbanization in white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus )

(2017) Stephen E. Harris et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolution of life in urban environments

(2017) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Pollinators exert positive selection on flower size on urban, but not on rural Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius L. Link)

(2017) Robert Frederick Bode et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Natural selection on plant physiological traits in an urban environment

(2016) Susan C. Lambrecht et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phenotypic shifts in urban areas in the tropical lizardAnolis cristatellus

(2016) Kristin M. Winchell et al.   EVOLUTION

Living in the city: urban environments shape the evolution of a native annual plant

(2016) Mohamed Yakub et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Genetic basis for rapidly evolved tolerance in the wild: adaptation to toxic pollutants by an estuarine fish species

(2016) Diane Nacci et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Breaking RAD: an evaluation of the utility of restriction site-associated DNA sequencing for genome scans of adaptation

(2016) David B. Lowry et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element

(2016) Arjen E. van’t Hof et al.   NATURE

Effects of fragmentation on plant adaptation to urban environments

(2016) Jonathan Dubois et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in urbanized landscapes: evolution, species sorting and the change in zooplankton body size along urbanization gradients

(2016) Kristien I. Brans et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How Are Scientists Using Social Media in the Workplace?

(2016) Kimberley Collins et al.   PLoS One

The genomic landscape of rapid repeated evolutionary adaptation to toxic pollution in wild fish

(2016) N. M. Reid et al.   SCIENCE

Evaluating ‘Plasticity-First’ Evolution in Nature: Key Criteria and Empirical Approaches

(2016) Nicholas A. Levis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Adaptation and Adaptedness of Organisms to Urban Environments

(2015) Mark J. McDonnell et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Urbanisation shapes behavioural responses to a pesticide

(2015) Nedim Tüzün et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

Combined epigenetic and intraspecific variation of theDRD4andSERTgenes influence novelty seeking behavior in great titParus major

(2015) Sepand Riyahi et al.   Epigenetics

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

(2015) Marina Alberti   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Adaptive evolution in urban ecosystems

(2014) Colin M. Donihue et al.   AMBIO

Disease and freeways drive genetic change in urban bobcat populations

(2014) Laurel E. K. Serieys et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: the problem and the evidence

(2014) Juha Merilä et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Urban ecology: advancing science and society

(2014) Colby J Tanner et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network

(2014) Richard Van Noorden   NATURE

Selection based on the size of the black tie of the great tit may be reversed in urban habitats

(2014) Juan Carlos Senar et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Urbanization and its effects on personality traits: a result of microevolution or phenotypic plasticity?

(2013) Ana Catarina Miranda et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cranial size has increased over 133 years in a common bat,Pipistrellus kuhlii: a response to changing climate or urbanization?

(2013) Alessandra Tomassini et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Candidate gene polymorphisms for behavioural adaptations during urbanization in blackbirds

(2013) J. C. Mueller et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Signatures of Rapid Evolution in Urban and Rural Transcriptomes of White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in the New York Metropolitan Area

(2013) Stephen E. Harris et al.   PLoS One

Physiological correlates of ecological divergence along an urbanization gradient: differential tolerance to ammonia among molecular forms of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae

(2013) Billy Tene Fossog et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation

(2012) Jonathan W. Atwell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Selective bird predation on the peppered moth: the last experiment of Michael Majerus

(2012) L. M. Cook et al.   Biology Letters

Urban landscape genetics: canopy cover predicts gene flow between white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) populations in New York City

(2012) JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Anthropogenic Habitat Disturbance and Ecological Divergence between Incipient Species of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

(2012) Colince Kamdem et al.   PLoS One

The ecological-evolutionary interplay: density-dependent sexual selection in a migratory songbird

(2012) Thomas B. Ryder et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Anopheles gambiae distribution and insecticide resistance in the cities of Douala and Yaoundé (Cameroon): influence of urban agriculture and pollution

(2011) Christophe Antonio-Nkondjio et al.   MALARIA JOURNAL

Ecotypic differentiation between urban and rural populations of the grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus relative to climate and habitat fragmentation

(2011) Gilles San Martin y Gomez et al.   OECOLOGIA

Adaptation of the Estuarine Fish Fundulus heteroclitus (Atlantic Killifish) to Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)

(2010) Diane E. Nacci et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory

(2010) Luis-Miguel Chevin et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Quantitative Survey of Local Adaptation and Fitness Trade‐Offs

(2009) Joe Hereford   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Small-scaled geographical variation in life-history traits of the blowflyCalliphora vicinabetween rural and urban populations

(2009) C. C. Hwang et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Reverse Evolution of Armor Plates in the Threespine Stickleback

(2008) Jun Kitano et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

EVOLUTION ON A LOCAL SCALE: DEVELOPMENTAL, FUNCTIONAL, AND GENETIC BASES OF DIVERGENCE IN BILL FORM AND ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN SONG STRUCTURE BETWEEN ADJACENT HABITATS

(2008) Alexander V. Badyaev et al.   EVOLUTION

Shifts in bat community structure related to evolved traits and features of human-altered landscapes

(2008) Joseph E. Duchamp et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Rapid evolution of seed dispersal in an urban environment in the weed Crepis sancta

(2008) P.-O. Cheptou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA