It is increasingly important to improve our understanding of the genetic basis of local
adaptation because of its relevance to climate change, crop and animal production, and …

Studies of local adaptation provide important insights into the power of natural selection
relative to gene flow and other evolutionary forces. They are a paradigm for testing …

The long history of reciprocal transplant studies testing the hypothesis of local adaptation
has shown that populations are often adapted to their local environments. Yet many studies …

The role of chromosomal inversions in adaptation and speciation is controversial.
Historically, inversions were thought to contribute to these processes either by directly …

Plants provide unique opportunities to study the mechanistic basis and evolutionary
processes of adaptation to diverse environmental conditions. Complementary laboratory …

Although many studies provide examples of evolutionary processes such as adaptive
evolution, balancing selection, deleterious variation and genetic drift, the relative importance …

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 …

Recently, the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technique has gained a lot of
popularity, and is now frequently applied to a wide variety of organisms. Technical …

Hairless dogs have imperfect teeth; long-haired and coarse-haired animals are apt to have,
as is asserted, long or many horns; pigeons with feathered feet have skin between their …

When previously isolated populations meet and mix, the resulting admixed population can
benefit from several genetic advantages, including increased genetic variation, the creation …