Identifying and monitoring locally adaptive genetic variation can have direct utility for
conserving species at risk, especially when management may include actions such as …

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 …

I consider how the study of genetic variation has influenced efforts to conserve natural
populations over the last 50 years. Studies with allozymes in the 1970s provided the first …

While population declines can drive the loss of genetic diversity under some circumstances,
it has been unclear whether this loss is a general consequence of overharvest in highly …

A diverse array of molecular markers and constantly evolving analytical approaches have
been employed to reconstruct the invasion histories of the most notorious invasions …

Biological invasions, the establishment and spread of non‐native species in new regions,
can have extensive economic and environmental consequences. Increased global …

The conservation of threatened species must be underpinned by phylogeographic
knowledge. This need is epitomized by the freshwater fish Carassius carassius, which is in …

There are two primary measures of the amount of genetic variation in a population at a
locus: heterozygosity and the number of alleles. Effective population size (N e) provides both …

Even with global support for tiger (Panthera tigris) conservation their survival is threatened
by poaching, habitat loss and isolation. Currently about 3,000 wild tigers persist in small …

Demographic bottlenecks that occur when populations fluctuate in size erode genetic
diversity, but that diversity can be recovered through immigration. Connectivity among …