Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes have been put forward as a model for
studying how genetic diversity is maintained in wild populations. Pathogen-mediated …

Genetic studies have typically inferred the effects of human impact by documenting patterns
of genetic differentiation and levels of genetic diversity among potentially isolated …

Living things are organized in a hierarchy of levels. Genes group together in cells, cells
group together in organisms, and organisms group together in societies. Even different …

Elucidating how natural selection promotes local adaptation in interaction with migration,
genetic drift and mutation is a central aim of evolutionary biology. While several conceptual …

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has become a paradigm for how selection can
act to maintain adaptively important genetic diversity in natural populations. Here, we review …

Plant pathology was born after the nineteenth-century potato famine, and since then
insightful genetic experiments have contributed to the great progress in our understanding of …

Why are females so choosy when it comes to mating? This question has puzzled and
marveled evolutionary and behavioral ecologists for decades. In mating systems in which …

House mice prefer mates genetically dissimilar at the major histocompatibility complex
(MHC). The highly polymorphic MHC genes control immunological self/nonself recognition; …

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration
of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, physiology, and ecology of …

The San Nicolas Island fox (Urocyon littoralis dickeyi) is genetically the most monomorphic
sexually reproducing animal population yet reported and has no variation in hypervariable …