Many populations of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) are experiencing severe declines
due to the high demand for shark fins in Asia, the activities of unregulated fisheries, and …

Molecular tools and analyses have played pivotal roles in uncovering the processes and
patterns of biodiversity in the Indian and Pacific oceans. However, integrating genetic results …

Seascape genetics, a term coined in 2006, is a fast growing area of population genetics that
draws on ecology, oceanography and geography to address challenges in basic …

• Premise of the study: Noncoding chloroplast DNA (NC‐cpDNA) sequences are the staple
data source of low‐level phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies of angiosperms. We …

The Amazon River and its major tributaries delimit the distributions of hundreds of terrestrial
taxa. It remains unclear whether river-bounded distributions and taxon replacements reflect …

The inclusion of next‐generation sequencing technologies in population genetic and
phylogenetic studies has elevated the need to balance time and cost of DNA extraction …

The drivers of speciation remain among the most controversial topics in evolutionary
biology. Initially, Darwin emphasized natural selection as a primary mechanism of …

Globally, sharks are under enormous pressure from fishing efforts. One such species is the
silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis, which occurs in all the Earth's tropical oceans and is …

Conservation genetic approaches for elasmobranchs have focused on regions of the
mitochondrial genome or a handful of nuclear microsatellites. High-throughput sequencing …

Aim To determine which seascape features have shaped the spatial genetic patterns of coral
reef fishes, and to identify common patterns among species related to dispersal traits [egg …