Similar forms often evolve repeatedly in nature, raising long-standing questions about the
underlying mechanisms. Here, we use repeated evolution in stickleback to identify a large …

Background Heteromorphic sex chromosomes have evolved repeatedly across diverse
species. Suppression of recombination between X and Y chromosomes leads to …

Colonization of new ecological niches has triggered large adaptive radiations. Although
some lineages have made use of such opportunities, not all do so. The factors causing this …

High-density linkage maps are important tools for genome biology and evolutionary genetics
by quantifying the extent of recombination, linkage disequilibrium, and chromosomal …

Transcriptome sequencing or RNA-Seq is one of the most efficient and cost-effective
methods currently available for gene discovery in non-model organisms. Recent studies …

Speciation is a continuous process and analysis of species pairs at different stages of
divergence provides insight into how it unfolds. Previous genomic studies on young species …

Detecting and estimating the degree of genetic differentiation among populations of highly
mobile marine fish having pelagic larval stages is challenging because their effective …

The formation of species in the absence of geographic barriers (ie sympatric speciation)
remains one of the most controversial topics in evolutionary biology. While theoretical …

Stickleback fishes in the family Gasterosteidae have become model organisms in ecology
and evolutionary biology. However, even in the case of the most widely studied species in …

Elucidating the genetic mechanisms of organismal adaptation to the Tibetan Plateau at a
genomic scale can provide insights into the process of adaptive evolution. Many highland …