Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

M Exposito-Alonso, TR Booker, L Czech, L Gillespie… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species' geographic ranges,
increasing extinction risk and losses of species' genetic diversity. Although preserving …

Insights into invasive species from whole‐genome resequencing

HL North, A McGaughran, CD Jiggins - Molecular Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of invasive species can simultaneously inform management strategies and quantify
rapid evolution in the wild. The role of genomics in invasion science is increasingly …

Genomic investigations of successful invasions: the picture emerging from recent studies

J Kołodziejczyk, A Fijarczyk, I Porth… - Biological …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Invasion biology aims to identify traits and mechanisms that contribute to successful
invasions, while also providing general insights into the mechanisms underlying population …

Can Transcriptomics Elucidate the Role of Regulation in Invasion Success?

AL Vaughan, MK Dhami - Molecular Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
When a species invades a novel environment, it must bridge the environment–phenotype
mismatch in its new range to persist. Contemporary invasion biology research has focused …

Contrasting continental patterns of adaptive population divergence in the holarctic ectomycorrhizal fungus Boletus edulis

K Tremble, JI Hoffman, BTM Dentinger - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the hyperdiverse fungi, the process of speciation is virtually unknown, including for the>
20 000 species of ectomycorrhizal mutualists. To understand this process, we investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing the Invasive History and Potential Distribution Prediction of Amaranthus palmeri in China

X Jiao, M Long, J Li, Q Yang, Z Liu - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri, Amaranthaceae) is one of the most competitive,
troublesome, and noxious weeds causing significant yield reductions in various crops. A …

High‐performing plastic clones best explain the spread of yellow monkeyflower from lowland to higher elevation areas in New Zealand

M Williamson, D Gerhard, PE Hulme… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The relative contribution of adaptation and phenotypic plasticity can vary between core and
edge populations, with implications for invasive success. We investigated the spread of the …

Current stewardship practices in invasion biology limit the value and secondary use of genomic data

AL Vaughan, E Parvizi, P Matheson… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive species threaten native biota, putting fragile ecosystems at risk and having a large‐
scale impact on primary industries. Growing trade networks and the popularity of personal …

Population genomic consequences of life-history and mating system adaptation to a geothermal soil mosaic in yellow monkeyflowers

KM Kolis, CS Berg, TC Nelson, L Fishman - Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Local selection can promote phenotypic divergence despite gene flow across habitat
mosaics, but adaptation itself may generate substantial barriers to genetic exchange. In …

Rapid local adaptation in both sexual and asexual invasive populations of monkeyflowers (Mimulus spp.)

VI Simón-Porcar, JL Silva, M Vallejo-Marín - Annals of Botany, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Traditionally, local adaptation has been seen as the outcome
of a long evolutionary history, particularly with regard to sexual lineages. By contrast …