ArticleCommunications biology2025
Conserved wing shape variation across biological scales unveils dialectical relationships between micro- and macroevolution.
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- Apparent stabilizing selection explains micro- and macroevolution of Drosophila wings.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Persistent selection on size explains micro- and macroevolutionary alignments in fly wings.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Bridging developmental and statistical approaches to variation and evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Conserved wing shape variation across biological scales unveils dialectical relationships between micro- and macroevolution.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Alternative Mutational Architectures Producing Identical M-Matrices can Lead to Different Patterns of Evolutionary Divergence.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
Variation enables short-term evolution (microevolution), but its role in long-term evolution (macroevolution) is debated. Here, we analyzed a dataset of Drosophila wing variation across six levels of biological organization to demonstrate that microevolutionary variation and macroevolutionary divergence are positively correlated at all levels from variation within an individual to macroevolution over 40 million years. Surprisingly, the strongest relationship was between developmental noise and macroevolutionary divergence-which are traditionally considered the most distant- while the relationship between standing genetic variation and population divergence was modest, despite established theoretical predictions and empirical evidence. Our results indicate that the congruence of the developmental system with the long-term history of fluctuations in adaptive peaks creates dialectical relationships between microevolution and macroevolution.
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