The identification of management units (MUs) is central to the management of natural populations and is crucial for monitoring the effects of human activity upon species …
The genetic study of diverging, closely related populations is required for basic questions on demography and speciation, as well as for biodiversity and conservation research. However …
J Hey, R Nielsen - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
In 1988, Felsenstein described a framework for assessing the likelihood of a genetic data set in which all of the possible genealogical histories of the data are considered, each in …
Even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification-with divergent branches spreading …
LL Knowles - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Phylogeography's objective—to understand the processes underlying the spatial and temporal dimensions of genetic variation—underlies both the prominence and extensive …
T Broquet, EJ Petit - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The dispersal process, by which individuals or other dispersing agents such as gametes or seeds move from birthplace to a new settlement locality, has important consequences for the …
JB Losos, DL Mahler - Evolution since Darwin: the first, 2010 - sites.wustl.edu
Darwin may have been the first to describe adaptive radiation when, contemplating the variety of finches that now bear his name, he remarked:“Seeing this gradation and diversity …
In this review on fungal speciation, we first contrast the issues of species definition and species criteria and show that by distinguishing the two concepts the approaches to studying …
The founding of New World populations by Asian peoples is the focus of considerable archaeological and genetic research, and there persist important questions on when and …