Recent increases in the magnitude and rate of environmental change, including habitat loss,
climate change and overexploitation, have been directly linked to the global loss of …

Metrics derived from pedigrees are key to investigating several major issues in evolutionary
biology, including the quantitative genetic architecture of traits, inbreeding depression, and …

40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles
Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural …

Background When a large number of alleles are lost from a population, increases in
individual homozygosity may reduce individual fitness through inbreeding depression …

Many recent studies report that individual heterozygosity at a handful of apparently neutral
microsatellite markers is correlated with key components of fitness, with most studies …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a review of mate choice and genetic quality,
defines mate choice, and discusses some of the key issues about how individuals can …

Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role and requirement of genetic
variation for population persistence. However, considerable debate now surrounds the role …

Numerous studies have reported associations between heterozygosity in microsatellite
markers and fitness‐related traits (heterozygosity–fitness correlations, HFCs). However, it …

Measuring inbreeding depression in normally outbreeding natural populations is an uphill
task, because it requires inbreeding coefficients that are calculated from pedigrees. Instead …

Between 1973 and 2003 mean morphological features of the cactus finch, Geospiza
scandens, and the medium ground finch, G. fortis, populations on the Galápagos island of …