Abstract With almost 2,600 species, Rodentia is the most diverse order of mammals. Here,
we provide an overview of changes in our understanding of the systematics of living rodents …

Snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) maintain seasonal camouflage by molting to a white
winter coat, but some hares remain brown during the winter in regions with low snow cover …

The rule of Mendelian inheritance is remarkably robust, but deviations from the equal
transmission of alternative alleles at a locus [aka transmission ratio distortion (TRD)] are also …

Background The extent to which selection determines interspecific patterns of genetic
exchange enlightens the role of adaptation in evolution and speciation. Often reported …

The genetic basis of adaptive traits has rarely been used to predict future vulnerability of
populations to climate change. We show that light versus dark seasonal pelage in white …

Over the past few decades, there has been an explosion in the amount of publicly available
sequencing data. This opens new opportunities for combining data sets to achieve …

Hybridization may often be an important source of adaptive variation, but the extent and long-
term impacts of introgression have seldom been evaluated in the phylogenetic context of a …

Genes involved in spermatogenesis tend to evolve rapidly, but we lack a clear
understanding of how protein sequences and patterns of gene expression evolve across this …

Hybridization and resulting introgression can play both a destructive and a creative role in
the evolution of diversity. Thus, characterizing when and where introgression is most likely to …

The application of high-throughput, short-read sequencing to degraded DNA has greatly
increased the feasibility of generating genomic data from historical museum specimens …