The Year in Evolutionary Biology 2013, Volume 1289

The fifth installment of The Year in Evolutionary Biology series includes reviews on: gene loss, thermogenesis, and the origin of birds; sexual selection in the light of molecular evolutionary genetics; the nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius), an emerging model in evolutionary biology; the evolutionary consequences of interspecific aggression; specific-gene studies of evolution in an age of genome-wide surveying; and biodiversity and evolutionary history: expanding the PD phylogenetic diversity assessment framework.

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Specific-gene studies of evolutionary mechanisms in an age of genome-wide surveying / Ward B. Watt

Nine-spined stickleback: an emerging model for evolutionary biology research / Juha Merilä

Gene loss, thermogenesis, and the origin of birds / Stuart A. Newman, Nadezhda V. Mezentseva and Alexander V. Badyaev

The evolutionary consequences of interspecific aggression / Gregory F. Grether, Christopher N. Anderson, Jonathan P. Drury, Alexander N.G. Kirschel, Neil Losin, Kenichi Okamoto and Kathryn S. Peiman

An integrative view of phylogenetic comparative methods: connections to population genetics, community ecology, and paleobiology / Matthew W. Pennell and Luke J. Harmon

Timothy A. Mousseau, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina.

Charles W. Fox, Professor, Entomology Department, University of Kentucky.