Meiotic recombination through chromosomal crossing-over is a fundamental feature of sex
and an important driver of genomic diversity. It ensures proper disjunction, allows increased …

Inbreeding may increase the extinction risk of small populations. Yet, studies using modern
genomic tools to investigate inbreeding depression in nature have been limited to single …

Generation time determines the pace of key demographic and evolutionary processes.
Quantified as the weighted mean age at reproduction, it can be studied as a life‐history trait …

An organism's energy budget is strongly related to resource consumption, performance, and
fitness. Hence, understanding the evolution of key energetic traits, such as basal metabolic …

Dispersal has a crucial role determining ecoevolutionary dynamics through both gene flow
and population size regulation. However, to study dispersal and its consequences, one must …

Conservation genetic techniques and considerations of the evolutionary potential of a
species are increasingly being applied to species conservation. For example, effective …

The house sparrow is an important model species for studying physiological, ecological and
evolutionary processes in wild populations. Here, we present a medium density, genome …

A population's effective size (Ne) is a key parameter that shapes rates of inbreeding and loss
of genetic diversity, thereby influencing evolutionary processes and population viability …

Levels of random genetic drift are influenced by demographic factors, such as mating
system, sex ratio and age structure. The effective population size (Ne) is a useful measure …

The effects of spatial structure on metapopulation dynamics depend upon the interaction
between local population dynamics and dispersal, and how this relationship is affected by …