Studies of local adaptation provide important insights into the power of natural selection
relative to gene flow and other evolutionary forces. They are a paradigm for testing …

It has often been argued that evolutionary diversification is the result of divergent natural
selection for specialization on alternative resources. I provide a comprehensive review of …

Background Environmental conditions affect the topology of the adaptive landscape and
thus the trajectories followed by evolving populations. For example, a heterogeneous …

Abstract Information on plant adaptation can be very useful in agrobiodiversity studies.
Ecogeographical land characterization (ELC) maps constitute a new tool in this direction …

The fundamental niches of bacteria can be defined along many environmental axes,
including temperature tolerance and resources consumed, while interactions with other …

Spatial structure is thought to be an important factor influencing the emergence and
maintenance of genetic diversity. Previous studies have demonstrated that environmental …

Background Small populations are thought to be adaptively handicapped, not only because
they suffer more from deleterious mutations but also because they have limited access to …

DNA and RNA-based sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and transcripts were used to
assess the phylogenetic diversity of microbial communities at assets experiencing corrosion …

Conservation programmes are always limited by available resources. Careful planning is
therefore required to increase the efficiency of conservation and gap analysis can be used …

Crop wild relatives are genetically related wild taxa of crops with unique resources for crop
improvement through the transfer of novel and profitable genes. The in situ and ex situ …