As population genomic datasets grow in size, researchers are faced with the daunting task
of making sense of a flood of information. To keep pace with this explosion of data …

Ecological systems can often be characterised by changes among a finite set of underlying
states pertaining to individuals, populations, communities or entire ecosystems through time …

Next-generation sequencing technology provides novel opportunities for gathering genome-
scale sequence data in natural populations, laying the empirical foundation for the evolving …

Population-scale genomic data sets have given researchers incredible amounts of
information from which to infer evolutionary histories. Concomitant with this flood of data …

For almost 20 years, many inference methods have been developed to detect selective
sweeps and localize the targets of directional selection in the genome. These methods are …

The detection of molecular signatures of selection is one of the major concerns of modern
population genetics. A widely used strategy in this context is to compare samples from …

Natural selection shapes patterns of genetic variation among individuals, populations, and
species, and it does so differentially across genomes. The field of population genomics …

Half a century ago, a seminal article on the hitchhiking effect by Smith and Haigh
inaugurated the concept of the selection signature. Selective sweeps are characterised by …

Understanding how natural selection shapes genetic variation in populations is of
paramount importance in evolutionary biology. Affordable high-throughput sequencing now …

A composite likelihood ratio test implemented in the program sweepfinder is a commonly
used method for scanning a genome for recent selective sweeps. sweepfinder uses …