Patterns of variation and evolution at a given site in a genome can be strongly influenced by
the effects of selection at genetically linked sites. In particular, the recombination rates of …

The field of population genomics has grown rapidly in response to the recent advent of
affordable, large-scale sequencing technologies. As opposed to the situation during the …

The relative evolutionary roles of adaptive and non-adaptive processes remain a central
question in population genetics. Resolution of this debate has been difficult as an …

Major changes in chromosome number and structure are linked to a series of evolutionary
phenomena, including intrinsic barriers to gene flow or suppression of recombination due to …

Current procedures for inferring population history generally assume complete neutrality—
that is, they neglect both direct selection and the effects of selection on linked sites. We here …

We discuss the genetic, demographic, and selective forces that are likely to be at play in
restricting observed levels of DNA sequence variation in natural populations to a much …

Recombination suppression around sex-determining gene (s) is a key step in evolution of
sex chromosomes, but it is not well understood how it evolves. Recently evolved sex-linked …

Inversions restrict recombination when heterozygous with standard arrangements, but often
have few noticeable phenotypic effects. Nevertheless, there are several examples of …

Despite insertions and deletions being the most common structural variants (SVs) found
across genomes, not much is known about how much these SVs vary within populations and …

The detection of selective sweeps from population genomic data often relies on the premise
that the beneficial mutations in question have fixed very near the sampling time. As it has …