The long-distance movements made by humans through history are quickly erased by time
but can be reconstructed by studying the genetic make-up of organisms that travelled with …

Global climate changes during the Quaternary reveal much about broader evolutionary
effects of environmental change. Detailed regional studies reveal how evolutionary lineages …

Oceanic islands have been a test ground for evolutionary theory, but here, we focus on the
possibilities for evolutionary study created by offshore islands. These can be colonized …

The narrow-headed vole, collared lemming and common vole were the most abundant small
mammal species across the Eurasian Late Pleistocene steppe-tundra environment …

Aim Using sequences of complete mitochondrial genomes, our aims were:(1) to investigate
the matrilineal phylogeographical structure, migration patterns and lineage coalescence …

Species are generally described from morphological features, but there is growing
recognition of sister forms that show substantial genetic differentiation without obvious …

Phylogenetic reconstruction of the evolutionary history of closely related organisms may be
difficult because of the presence of unsorted lineages and of a relatively high proportion of …

We have revisited the mtDNA phylogeny of the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus based on
Sanger and next-generation Illumina sequencing of 32 complete mitochondrial genomes …

Organismal traits interact with environmental variation to mediate how species respond to
shared landscapes. Thus, differences in traits related to dispersal ability or physiological …

Summary The Montseny brook newt (Calotriton arnoldi), considered the most endangered
amphibian in Europe, is a relict salamandrid species endemic to a small massif located in …