Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns

JA Pilowsky, RK Colwell, C Rahbek, DA Fordham - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
With ever-growing data availability and computational power at our disposal, we now have
the capacity to use process-explicit models more widely to reveal the ecological and …

Half a Century of Controversy: The Neutralist/Selectionist Debate in Molecular Evolution

N Galtier - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The neutral and nearly neutral theories, introduced more than 50 yr ago, have raised and
still raise passionate discussion regarding the forces governing molecular evolution and …

The relevance of pedigrees in the conservation genomics era

SJ Galla, L Brown, Y Couch‐Lewis, I Cubrinovska… - 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past 50 years conservation genetics has developed a substantive toolbox to inform
species management. One of the most long‐standing tools available to manage genetics …

Parallel decay of vision genes in subterranean water beetles

BL Langille, SM Tierney, T Bertozzi… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the framework of neutral theory of molecular evolution, genes specific to the development
and function of eyes in subterranean animals living in permanent darkness are expected to …

Conservation genomics of an Australian cycad Cycas calcicola, and the Absence of Key Genotypes in Botanic Gardens

JAR Clugston, M Ruhsam, GJ Kenicer… - Conservation …, 2022 - Springer
Understanding the genetic diversity of wild populations is fundamental to conserving
species in-situ and ex-situ. To aid conservation plans and to inform ex-situ conservation, we …

Population Genomic Analysis of North American Eastern Wolves (Canis lycaon) Supports Their Conservation Priority Status

E Heppenheimer, RJ Harrigan, LY Rutledge… - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
The threatened eastern wolf is found predominantly in protected areas of central Ontario and
has an evolutionary history obscured by interbreeding with coyotes and gray wolves, which …

Spatiotemporal genetic diversity of lions reveals the influence of habitat fragmentation across Africa

CJ Curry, BW Davis, LD Bertola… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Direct comparisons between historical and contemporary populations allow for detecting
changes in genetic diversity through time and assessment of the impact of habitat …

Population Subdivision in the Gopher Frog (Rana capito) across the Fragmented Longleaf Pine-Wiregrass Savanna of the Southeastern USA

TJ Devitt, KM Enge, AL Farmer, P Beerli, SC Richter… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Delineating genetically distinct population segments of threatened species and quantifying
population connectivity are important steps in developing effective conservation and …

Conservation genomic analysis reveals ancient introgression and declining levels of genetic diversity in Madagascar's hibernating dwarf lemurs

RC Williams, MB Blanco, JW Poelstra, KE Hunnicutt… - Heredity, 2020 - nature.com
Madagascar's biodiversity is notoriously threatened by deforestation and climate change.
Many of these organisms are rare, cryptic, and severely threatened, making population-level …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat fragmentation increases the risk of local extinction of small reptiles: A case study on Phrynocephalus przewalskii

C Yang, Y Qi, J Guo, L Peng, N Xiong, W Zhang… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Habitat fragmentation represents a multifaceted global conservation threat, exerting both
direct and indirect effects on individual animals and communities. Reptiles, particularly …