Aude E. Caizergues

TL;DR: These results provide robust evidence that the lower Ne experienced by island species has affected both the ability of natural selection to efficiently remove weakly deleterious mutations and also the adaptive potential of island species, therefore providing considerable empirical support for the nearly neutral theory.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that contemporary reproductive selection explains differences in morphology and life history between urban- and forest-breeding great tits is not supported, and further experimental approaches are discussed to help confirm whether the observed divergence is maladaptive while identifying the environmental drivers behind it.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how city life shapes morphological characteristics at different life stages in the city versus the forest, and within the urban habitat (along naturalness and pedestrian frequency gradients).

TL;DR: This chapter first reviews quantitative genetics studies investigating the mechanisms of evolution in the city, and then reviews pioneering genomic studies that have shed light on the genes and genetic mechanisms implicated in urban microevolution.