In the past 15 years, numerous methods have been developed to detect selective sweeps
underlying adaptations. These methods are based on relatively simple population genetic …

How do we quantify patterns (such as responses to local selection) sampled across multiple
populations within a single species? Key to this question is the extent to which populations …

Until recently, it has been common practice for a phylogenetic analysis to use a single gene
sequence from a single individual organism as a proxy for an entire species. With …

Although anthropogenic impacts are often considered harmful to species, human
modifications to the landscape can actually create novel niches to which other species can …

Background Effective population size (N e) is related to genetic variability and is a basic
parameter in many models of population genetics. A number of methods for inferring current …

Understanding the processes by which species colonize and adapt to human habitats is
particularly important in the case of disease-vectoring arthropods. The mosquito species …

Microbes and other organisms smaller than one to a few millimeters in size are
hypothesized to have global populations, in contrast to the geographically restricted ranges …

Molecular cloning of major quantitative trait loci (QTLs) responsible for the reduction of rice
grain shattering, a hallmark of cereal domestication, provided opportunities for in‐depth …

We employed a multilocus approach to examine the effects of population subdivision and
natural selection on DNA polymorphism in 2 closely related wild tomato species (Solanum …

Background Lateral gene transfer (LGT) from bacterial Wolbachia endosymbionts has been
detected in~ 20% of arthropod and nematode genome sequencing projects. Many of these …