The life cycles and dispersal of edible fungi are still poorly known, thus limiting our understanding of their evolution and domestication. The prized Tuber melanosporum produces fruitbodies (fleshy organs where meiospores mature) gathered in natural, spontaneously inoculated forests or harvested in plantations of nursery‐inoculated trees. Yet, how fruitbodies are formed remains unclear, thus limiting yields, and how current d...

In arthropods, the intracellular bacteria W olbachia often induce cytoplasmic incompatibility ( CI ) between sperm and egg, which causes conditional embryonic death and promotes the spatial spread of W olbachia infections into host populations. The ability of W olbachia to spread in natural populations through CI has attracted attention for using these bacteria in vector‐borne disease control. The dynamics of incompatible W ol...

Ecotypic differentiation is well described in the mosquito Culex pipiens , separating populations breeding in subterranean and human‐made sites (hypogeous habitat) from those in open‐air sites (epigeous habitat). The pattern of population differentiation observed at the Aat‐1 locus has been suspected to be associated with such ecotypic differentiation via habitat‐dependent selection, but this supposition is still the subject o...