Microsatellites have been popular molecular markers ever since their advent in the late
eighties. Despite growing competition from new genoty** and sequencing techniques, the …

Parentage analysis is a cornerstone of molecular ecology that has delivered fundamental
insights into behaviour, ecology and evolution. Microsatellite markers have long been the …

Motivation: DIYABC is a software package for a comprehensive analysis of population
history using approximate Bayesian computation on DNA polymorphism data. Version 2.0 …

Background Microsatellite markers are widely used for estimating genetic diversity within
and differentiation among populations. However, it has rarely been tested whether such …

Structural variation (SV) constitutes an important type of genetic mutations providing the raw
material for evolution. Here, we uncover the genome-wide spectrum of intra-and interspecific …

Few genetic markers, if any, have found such widespread use as microsatellites, or
simple/short tandem repeats. Features such as hypervariability and ubiquitous occurrence …

The identification of population bottlenecks is critical in conservation because populations
that have experienced significant reductions in abundance are subject to a variety of genetic …

Microsatellites, or tandem simple sequence repeats (SSR), are abundant across genomes
and show high levels of polymorphism. SSR genetic and evolutionary mechanisms remain …

Microsatellite markers are routinely used to investigate the genetic structuring of natural
populations. The knowledge of how genetic variation is partitioned among populations may …

In less than half a century, molecular markers have totally changed our view of nature, and
in the process they have evolved themselves. However, all of the molecular methods …