As populations diverge in allopatry, but under similar thermal conditions, do similar thermal performance phenotypes evolve by maintaining similar gene expression patterns, or does genetic divergence lead to divergent patterns of gene expression between these populations? We used genetically divergent populations of the copepod Tigriopus californicus, whose performance at different thermal cond...

Moisture damage and microbial growth in buildings have been associated with health effects among the occupants including various respiratory symptoms and asthma. However, the causative agents and the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for the adverse health effects associated with exposure in buildings are not clear. The basic phenomenon of microbial growth on building materials must be...

Crosses between divergent populations of the copepod Tigriopus californicus typically result in fitness reductions for both F2 and backcross hybrids. Because females in this species lack chiasmatic meiosis, both recombinant and nonrecombinant backcross hybrids can be created. Recombinant hybrids were found to have significantly faster development time for both males and females in 2 pairs of cr...