Myosin storage myopathy (MSM) is a rare skeletal muscle disorder caused by mutations in
the slow muscle/β-cardiac myosin heavy chain (MHC) gene. MSM missense mutations …

Islands, and the particular organisms that populate them, have long fascinated biologists.
Due to their isolation, islands offer unique opportunities to study the effect of neutral and …

Wheat stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a crucial disease for
wheat worldwide and constantly threatens wheat production in southwestern and …

A key aspect of assessing the risk of extinction/extirpation for a particular wild species or
population is the status of inbreeding, but the origin of inbreeding and the current mutational …

Mitochondria are known to play an essential role in the cell. These organelles contain their
own DNA, which is divided in a coding and non-coding region (NCR). While much of the …

Homologous recombination is a meiotic process that generates diversity along the genome
and interacts with all evolutionary forces. Despite its importance, studies of recombination …

Understanding the adaptability of small populations in the face of environmental change is a
central problem in evolutionary biology. Solving this problem is challenging because neutral …

Islands have been characterized as natural laboratories because of their distinct and often
identifiable role in promoting genetic variation and population differentiation, but they have …

Climatic variations subject living species to evolutionary stresses and shape their
distributions. Since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the subsequent temperature rise …

I examined Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) sampled from 19 lava caves near Lake Mývatn,
Iceland to assess the hypotheses that patterns of genetic and phenotypic variation are …