The formation of the Isthmus of Panama stands as one of the greatest natural events of the
Cenozoic, driving profound biotic transformations on land and in the oceans. Some recent …

Understanding the forces that influence natural variation within and among populations has
been a major objective of evolutionary biologists for decades. Motivated by the growth in …

Bayesian inference plays an important role in phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, and in
many other branches of science. It provides a principled framework for dealing with …

Seascape genetics, a term coined in 2006, is a fast growing area of population genetics that
draws on ecology, oceanography and geography to address challenges in basic …

In the past 10years a statistical technique, approximate Bayesian computation (ABC), has
been developed that can be used to infer parameters and choose between models in the …

Phylogenetic trees in insects are frequently dated by applying a “standard” mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA) clock estimated at 2.3% My− 1, but despite its wide use reliable calibration …

Approximately 20 years ago, Avise and colleagues proposed the integration of
phylogenetics and population genetics for investigating the connection between micro-and …

Almost 30 y ago, the field of intraspecific phylogeography laid the foundation for spatially
explicit and genealogically informed studies of population divergence. With new methods …

Glacial cycles have played a dominant role in sha** the genetic structure and distribution
of biota in northwestern North America. The two major ice age refugia of Beringia and the …

The older history of hybrid zones is explored through consideration of recent advances in
climatology, paleontology and phylogeography in the Late Cenozoic, particularly the …