We will soon have complete genome sequences from thousands of species, as well as from
many individuals within species. This coming explosion of information will transform our …

Human harvest of animals in the wild occurs in terrestrial and aquatic habitats throughout
the world and is often intense. Harvest has the potential to cause three types of genetic …

In principle, the spatial extent of fishery stock assessment should reflect the biological
population, and major fishing patterns or population heterogeneity within the area should be …

By providing new approaches to the investigation of demographic and evolutionary
dynamics of wild populations, molecular genetics has led to fundamental changes in our …

Recent advances in the application of stock identification methods have revealed
inconsistencies between the spatial structure of biological populations and the definition of …

An essential prerequisite of a sustainable fisheries management is the matching of
biologically relevant processes and management action. In fisheries management and …

Genetic stochasticity due to small population size contributes to population extinction,
especially when population fragmentation disrupts gene flow. Estimates of effective …

Studies of adaptive evolution have experienced a recent revival in population genetics of
natural populations and there is currently much focus on identifying genomic signatures of …

Background Marine fishes have been shown to display low levels of genetic structuring and
associated high levels of gene flow, suggesting shallow evolutionary trajectories and …

The genomic architecture underlying ecological divergence and ecological speciation with
gene flow is still largely unknown for most organisms. One central question is whether …