Historical DNA (hDNA), obtained from museum and herbarium specimens, has yielded
spectacular new insights into the history of organisms. This includes documenting historical …

The Genome 10K Project was established in 2009 by a consortium of biologists and
genome scientists determined to facilitate the sequencing and analysis of the complete …

We document a tendency for published estimates of population size in sea turtles to be
increasing rather than decreasing across the globe. To examine the population status of the …

Changing patterns of human resource use and food consumption have profoundly impacted
the Earth's biosphere. Until now, no individual taxa have been suggested as distinct and …

Most species are structured and influenced by processes that either increased or reduced
gene flow between populations. However, most population genetic inference methods …

Genome sequence data are now being routinely obtained from many nonmodel organisms.
These data contain a wealth of information about the demographic history of the populations …

Abstract The Multiple Sequentially Markovian Coalescent (MSMC) is a population genetic
method and software for inferring demographic history and population structure through time …

Many species have undergone dramatic population size declines over the past centuries.
Although stochastic genetic processes during and after such declines are thought to elevate …

Natural history collections have long been used by morphologists, anatomists, and
taxonomists to probe the evolutionary process and describe biological diversity. These …

Current procedures for inferring population history generally assume complete neutrality—
that is, they neglect both direct selection and the effects of selection on linked sites. We here …