We will soon have complete genome sequences from thousands of species, as well as from
many individuals within species. This coming explosion of information will transform our …

Much attention has been given to forecasting the likely effects of ongoing climate change on
biodiversity. A large and often contentious literature has developed about how changes in …

Over the past twenty years conservation genetics has progressed from being mainly a theory-
based field of population biology to a full-grown empirical discipline. Technological …

The genomics era has opened up exciting possibilities in the field of conservation biology by
enabling genomic analyses of threatened species that previously were limited to model …

Background In conservation genetics, molecular data can play two fundamental roles that I
will refer to as the mechanistic (or functional) and the inventorial. With respect to the …

Noninvasive genetics based on microsatellite markers has become an indispensable tool for
wildlife monitoring and conservation research over the past decades. However …

Abstract Knowledge of kin relationships between members of wild animal populations has
broad application in ecology and evolution research by allowing the investigation of …

The development of genomic resources for wild species is still in its infancy. However, cross‐
species utilization of technologies developed for their domestic counterparts has the …

Spatial variation in species composition is one of the most fundamental and conspicuous
features of the natural world. Measures of compositional differentiation and similarity …

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are growing in popularity as a genetic marker for
investigating evolutionary processes. A panel of SNPs is often developed by comparing …