Challenges in analysis and interpretation of microsatellite data for population genetic studies

AI Putman, I Carbone - Ecology and evolution, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Advancing technologies have facilitated the ever‐widening application of genetic markers
such as microsatellites into new systems and research questions in biology. In light of the …

Identification of management units using population genetic data

PJ Palsbøll, M Berube, FW Allendorf - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2007 - cell.com
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 …

Multilocus methods for estimating population sizes, migration rates and divergence time, with applications to the divergence of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D …

J Hey, R Nielsen - Genetics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Integration within the Felsenstein equation for improved Markov chain Monte Carlo methods in population genetics

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 …

[图书][B] Evolution through genetic exchange

ML Arnold - 2006 - books.google.com
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 …

Statistical phylogeography

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 …

Molecular estimation of dispersal for ecology and population genetics

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Adaptive radiation: the interaction of ecological opportunity, adaptation, and speciation

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 …

Speciation in fungi

T Giraud, G Refrégier, M Le Gac, DM de Vienne… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2008 - Elsevier
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 …

On the number of New World founders: a population genetic portrait of the peopling of the Americas

J Hey - PLoS biology, 2005 - journals.plos.org
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 …