Understanding the processes and patterns of gene flow and local adaptation requires a
detailed knowledge of how landscape characteristics structure populations. This …

ABSTRACT 1 Glacial refugia were core areas for the survival of temperate species during
unfavourable environmental conditions and were the sources of postglacial recolonizations …

Conservation genetic analyses of many endangered species have been based on
genotyping of microsatellite loci and sequencing of short fragments of mtDNA. The increase …

In the course of the last 500,000 years, the Neandertal lineage was the first human group to
extensively colonize the middle latitudes of western Eurasia up to 55° N. Although …

Dispersal influences evolution, demography, and social characteristics but is generally
difficult to study. Here we combine long‐term demographic data from an intensively studied …

In many extant animal and plant species in Europe and North America a correlation exists
between the geographical location of individuals and the genetic relatedness of the …

We have analyzed partial DNA sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene from
extant striped, brown, and spotted hyenas as well as from Pleistocene cave hyenas …

In species affiliated with heterogeneous habitat, we expect gene flow to be restricted due to
constraints placed on individual movement by habitat boundaries. This is likely to impact …

Wolverine (Gulo gulo) numbers in Scandinavia were significantly reduced during the early
part of the century as a result of predator removal programmes and hunting. Protective …

We have developed a program called Spatial Genetic Software (SGS), which provides a
user-friendly Windows tool to analyze both local and broad scale genetic and phenotypic …