Reef-building corals can shift from autotrophic to heterotrophic feeding during episodic heatwaves, which may have mitigating effects on thermal stress. It is yet unclear to what extent this could occur during early life stages of corals, and how this affects survival. We exposed settlers (primary polyps) of the Caribbean Golf ball coral Favia fragum to a lab-controlled heatwave lasting 48 days under two feeding regimes (36 ve...

Gene expression can be highly plastic in response to environmental variation. However, we know little about how expression plasticity is shaped by natural selection and evolves in wild and domesticated species. We used genotypic selection analysis to characterize selection on drought‐induced plasticity of over 7,500 leaf transcripts of 118 rice accessions (genotypes) from different environmental conditions grown in a field exp...

There is now abundant evidence of rapid evolution in natural populations, but the genetic mechanisms of these changes remain unclear. One possible route to rapid evolution is through changes in the expression of genes that influence traits under selection. We examined contemporary evolutionary gene expression changes in plant populations responding to environmental fluctuations. We compared genome‐wide gene expression, using R...