Despite the increasing accessibility of high‐throughput sequencing, obtaining high‐quality
genomic data on non‐model organisms without proximate well‐assembled and annotated …

Roses have a specific symbolic charge in Western cultural heritage, often used as a
metaphor for love and romance. Despite its ancient cultivation, the passion for the …

Abscondita cerata is the most abundant and widely distributed endemic firefly species in
Taiwan and is considered a key environmental and ecological indicator organism. In this …

Small populations harbour less genetic diversity and more harmful mutations. They thus
adapt more slowly. A new study supports these notions and suggests that reduced …

A microevolutionary theory assumes that small island populations are genetically
depauperate and have difficulties in back-colonizing continents, becoming evolutionary …

Understanding the factors driving phenotypic and genomic differentiation of insular
populations is of major interest to gain insight into the speciation process. Comparing …

Decades of decline have triggered an AEWA action plan and numerous conservation and
management projects across the range of Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata. Several …

Islands are considered as natural laboratories for the understanding of the evolutionary
process of speciation. The very first muses of Darwin's insights into evolution by natural …

Biodiversity is declining globally. Yet, the biological and genetic processes associated with
these declines on a longer timescale are still poorly understood. Ancient DNA is a powerful …

Abscondita cerata is the most abundant and widely distributed endemic firefly species in
Taiwan and is considered a key environmental and ecological indicator organism. In this …