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 …

Urbanization is a severe form of habitat fragmentation that can cause many species to be
locally extirpated and many others to become trapped and isolated within an urban matrix …

Population genomic investigations on highly dispersive marine organisms typically require
thousands of genome-wide SNP loci to resolve fine-scale population structure and detect …

The distribution and survival of trees during the last glacial maximum (LGM) has been of
interest to paleoecologists, biogeographers, and geneticists. Ecological niche models that …

The development of molecular markers linked to specific traits is now routine practice, but
the gap between genomics and breeding often delays their application. In the frame of the …

Studies of genetics and ecology often require estimates of relatedness coefficients based on
genetic marker data. However, with the presence of null alleles, an observed genotype can …

Abstract The Mefite in the Ansanto Valley is one of the largest and oldest cold natural carbon
dioxide springs (CNCDS) known in the world. This site is characterized by toxic …

Sperm whales have a multi-level social structure based upon long-term, cooperative social
units. What role kinship plays in structuring this society is poorly understood. We combined …

Sexual selection may act as a promotor of speciation since divergent mate choice and
competition for mates can rapidly lead to reproductive isolation. Alternatively, sexual …

Null alleles are alleles that for various reasons fail to amplify in a PCR assay. The presence
of null alleles in microsatellite data is known to bias the genetic parameter estimates. Thus …