Berger lab
Sexual selection and adaptation to novel environments
Our current research revolves around understanding how individual-level selection can modify mutation rates as well as their phenotypic effects, and how this in turn may affect evolutionary demography in sexually reproducing organisms. We combine experimental quantitative and molecular genetics to explore these processes, as well as other related questions within life history and sexual selection theory, in insect model systems. Visit Our research page to find out more about the main themes of our research:
- Sexual Selection and Adaptation to Novel Environments
- Condition dependent DNA Repair and Mutation Rates
- The Evolution of Mutational Effects
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Publications
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
- DOI for Life-history adaptation under climate warming magnifies the agricultural footprint of a cosmopolitan insect pest
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Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings
Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 639-651, 2025
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Environmental complexity mitigates the demographic impact of sexual selection
Part of Ecology Letters, 2024
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Heat stress reveals a fertility debt owing to postcopulatory sexual selection
Part of Evolution Letters, p. 101-113, 2024
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Coevolution of longevity and female germline maintenance
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2024
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Systematic approaches to assessing high-temperature limits to fertility in animals
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 471-485, 2024
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When and how can we predict adaptive responses to climate change?
Part of Evolution Letters, p. 172-187, 2024
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A systematic map of studies testing the relationship between temperature and animal reproduction
Part of Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2024
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Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 368-380, 2023
- DOI for Mixed support for an alignment between phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation in damselfly wing shape
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Increased male investment in sperm competition results in reduced maintenance of gametes
Part of PLoS biology, 2023
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