Combining nuclear (nuDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers has improved the
power of molecular data to test phylogenetic and phylogeographic hypotheses and has …

Hybridization, defined as breeding between two distinct taxonomic units, can have an
important effect on the evolutionary patterns in cross-breeding taxa. Although interspecific …

Elaboration of Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods has continued at pace in recent
years with major new advances in nearly all aspects of the joint modelling of evolutionary …

Understanding why some evolutionary lineages generate exceptionally high species
diversity is an important goal in evolutionary biology. Haplochromine cichlid fishes of Africa's …

Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) makes ancestral genetic polymorphisms persist during
rapid speciation events, inducing incongruences between gene trees and species trees. ILS …

▪ Abstract Many uses of gene trees implicitly assume that nominal species are monophyletic
in their alleles at the study locus. However, in well-sampled gene trees, certain alleles in one …

Whether interspecific hybridization is important as a mechanism that generates biological
diversity is a matter of controversy. Whereas some authors focus on the potential of …

Microsatellites are the most popular and versatile genetic marker with myriads of
applications in population genetics, conservation biology, and evolutionary biology. These …

The African cichlid fish radiations are the most diverse extant animal radiations and provide
a unique system to test predictions of speciation and adaptive radiation theory. The past few …

A considerable fraction of the world's biodiversity is of recent evolutionary origin and has
evolved as a by‐product of, and is maintained by, divergent adaptation in heterogeneous …