Homoplasy has recently attracted the attention of population geneticists, as a consequence
of the popularity of highly variable stepwise mutating markers such as microsatellites …

Forensic entomology uses insects to help law enforcement determine the cause, location,
and time of death of a human corpse as well as to detect poisons, drugs, and physical …

GENECLASS2 is a software that computes various genetic assignment criteria to assign or
exclude reference populations as the origin of diploid or haploid individuals, as well as of …

The conservation and management of endangered species requires information on their
genetic diversity, relatedness and population structure. The main genetic markers applied …

Genetic assignment methods use genotype likelihoods to draw inference about where
individuals were or were not born, potentially allowing direct, real‐time estimates of …

A new method for assigning individuals of unknown origin to populations, based on the
genetic distance between individuals and populations, was compared to two existing …

The mutation process at microsatellite loci typically occurs at high rates and with stepwise
changes in allele sizes, features that may introduce bias when using classical measures of …

Genetic diversity between three farmed and four wild populations of Atlantic salmon from
Ireland and Norway were analysed using 15 microsatellite markers. High levels of …

Freshwater fishes that have been isolated by artificial dams have become models for
studying the effects of recent barriers on genetic variation and population differentiation. In …

Individual‐based assignment tests are now standard tools in molecular ecology and have
several applications, including the study of dispersal. The measurement of natal dispersal is …