Captive breeding has become an important tool in species conservation programmes.
Current management strategies for ex situ populations are based on theoretical models …

The evolutionary history of chromosomes can be tracked by the comparative hybridization of
large panels of bacterial artificial chromosome clones. This approach has disclosed an …

One of the greatest unmet challenges in conservation biology is the genetic management of
fragmented populations of threatened animal and plant species. More than a million small …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

DNA barcoding and DNA taxonomy have recently been proposed as solutions to the crisis of
taxonomy and received significant attention from scientific journals, grant agencies, natural …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

In the foreseeable future there is little likelihood of achieving consensus on the number of
Asian primate genera and species, and their subspecific composition. There is a more …

Understanding the historical dynamics of forest communities is a critical element for accurate
prediction of their response to future change. Here, we examine evergreen rainforest …

Phylogenetic trees for the four extant species of African hominoids are presented, based on
mtDNA control region-1 sequences from 1,158 unique haplotypes. We include 83 new …

How populations diverge and give rise to distinct species remains a fundamental question in
evolutionary biology, with important implications for a wide range of fields, from conservation …