High-throughput sequencing technologies are revolutionizing the life sciences. The past 12
months have seen a burst of genome sequences from non-model organisms, in each case …

Population genetics theory supplies powerful predictions about how natural selection
interacts with genetic linkage to sculpt the genomic landscape of nucleotide polymorphism …

Since the first half of the twentieth century, evolutionary theory has been dominated by the
idea that mutations occur randomly with respect to their consequences. Here we test this …

The current rate of species extinction is rapidly approaching unprecedented highs, and life
on Earth presently faces a sixth mass extinction event driven by anthropogenic activity …

The plant Arabidopsis thaliana occurs naturally in many different habitats throughout
Eurasia. As a foundation for identifying genetic variation contributing to adaptation to diverse …

Understanding why some species have more genetic diversity than others is central to the
study of ecology and evolution, and carries potentially important implications for …

The completion of reference genome sequences for many important crops and the ability to
perform high-throughput resequencing are providing opportunities for improving our …

The neutral theory of molecular evolution predicts that the amount of neutral polymorphisms
within a species will increase proportionally with the census population size (Nc). However …

The majority of variation in rates of molecular evolution among seed plants remains both
unexplored and unexplained. Although some attention has been given to flowering plants …

The process of evolution at a given site in the genome can be influenced by the action of
selection at other sites, especially when these are closely linked to it. Such selection …