Advancing technologies have facilitated the ever‐widening application of genetic markers
such as microsatellites into new systems and research questions in biology. In light of the …

The genomics era has opened up exciting possibilities in the field of conservation biology by
enabling genomic analyses of threatened species that previously were limited to model …

The Pacific region is of major importance for addressing questions regarding human
dispersals, interactions with archaic hominins and natural selection processes. However, the …

Migrations have played an important role in sha** the genetic diversity of human
populations. Understanding genomic data thus requires careful modeling of historical gene …

Dramatic events in human prehistory, such as the spread of agriculture to Europe from
Anatolia and the late Neolithic/Bronze Age migration from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, can …

Genetic studies have identified substantial non-African admixture in the Horn of Africa
(HOA). In the most recent genomic studies, this non-African ancestry has been attributed to …

The emergence of agriculture in West-Central Africa approximately 5,000 years ago,
profoundly modified the cultural landscape and mode of subsistence of most sub-Saharan …

Because of past limitations in samples and genoty** technologies, important questions
about the history of the present-day Greenlandic population remain unanswered. In an effort …

The origin and history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population have long been of great interest,
and advances in high-throughput genetic analysis have recently provided a new approach …

The archipelago of Vanuatu has been at the crossroads of human population movements in
the Pacific for the past three millennia. To help address several open questions regarding …