One of the most important shifts in evolutionary biology in the past 50 years is an increased
recognition of sluggish evolution and failures to adapt, which seem paradoxical in view of …

Speciation is characterized by the evolution of reproductive isolation between two groups of
organisms. Understanding the process of speciation requires the quantification of barriers to …

The domesticated sunflower, Helianthus annuus L., is a global oil crop that has promise for
climate change adaptation, because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of …

Soil and water salinity substantially constrain crop and biomass production. Research over
the last two plus decades, facilitated by advances in molecular genetics and biotechnology …

Patterns of genetic diversity between populations are often used to detect loci under
selection in genome scans. Indeed, loci involved in local adaptations should show high F ST …

Abstract Changes in environmental conditions can rapidly shift allele frequencies in
populations of species with relatively short generation times. Frequency shifts might be …

There is a growing interest in identifying ecological factors that influence adaptive genetic
diversity patterns in both model and nonmodel species. The emergence of large genomic …

Adaptive divergence due to habitat differences is thought to play a major role in formation of
new species. However it is rarely clear the extent to which individual reproductive isolating …

Abstract Background Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are ideally suited for the
construction of high-resolution genetic maps, studying population evolutionary history and …

Genomewide scans for natural selection (GWSS) have become increasingly common over
the last 15 years due to increased availability of genome‐scale genetic data. Here, we report …