Landscape genomics is an emerging research field that aims to identify the environmental
factors that shape adaptive genetic variation and the gene variants that drive local …

The interactions between organisms and their environments can shape distributions of
spatial genetic variation, resulting in patterns of isolation by environment (IBE) in which …

The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked
to adaptation to the ecological environment. Specifically, ecological processes are central to …

Gene flow among populations can enhance local adaptation if it introduces new genetic
variants available for selection, but strong gene flow can also stall adaptation by swamping …

Wright's F-statistics, and especially F ST, provide important insights into the evolutionary
processes that influence the structure of genetic variation within and among populations …

Identifying loci under natural selection from genomic surveys is of great interest in different
research areas. Commonly used methods to separate neutral effects from adaptive effects …

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 …

The genetic population structure of many species is characterised by a pattern of isolation by
distance (IBD): due to limited dispersal, individuals that are geographically close tend to be …

Levels of genetic differentiation between populations can be highly variable across the
genome, with divergent selection contributing to such heterogeneous genomic divergence …

The Mantel test is widely used to test the linear or monotonic independence of the elements
in two distance matrices. It is one of the few appropriate tests when the hypothesis under …