The ability to adapt to marginal habitats, in which survival and reproduction are initially poor,
plays a crucial role in the evolution of ecological niches and species ranges. Adaptation to …

Hybridization has a major role in evolution—from the introgression of important phenotypic
traits between species, to the creation of new species through hybrid speciation. Molecular …

Rye (Secale cereale) is closely related to wheat (Triticum aestivum) and barley (Hordeum
vulgare). Due to its large genome (∼ 8 Gb) and its regional importance, genome analysis of …

An increasing number of studies using genetic data at the generic and species levels reveal
complex patterns of relationships among populations and species. Incomplete lineage …

Hybridization is a key mechanism involved in lineage diversification and speciation,
especially in ecosystems that experienced repeated environmental oscillations. Recently …

Despite several recent contributions of population and evolutionary biology to the rapidly
develo** field of invasion biology, integration is far from perfect. I argue here that invasion …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 433–443 Abstract Much is known about facilitation, but virtually
nothing about the underlying genetic and evolutionary consequences of this important …

Understanding the genetic basis of adaptation in response to environmental variation is
fundamental as adaptation plays a key role in the extension of ecological niches to marginal …

Interspecific hybridization is one of the major factors leading to phylogenetic incongruence
among loci, but the knowledge is still limited about the potential of each locus to introgress …

Local adaptations to environmental conditions are of high ecological importance as they
determine distribution ranges and likely affect species responses to climate change …