Epidemics caused by fungal plant pathogens pose a major threat to agro-ecosystems and
impact global food security. High-throughput sequencing enabled major advances in …

Biomonitoring of aquatic environment and assessment of ecosystem health play essential
roles in the development of effective strategies for the protection of the environment, human …

The interplay between divergence and phenotypic plasticity is critical to our understanding
of a species' adaptive potential under rapid climate changes. We investigated divergence …

Determining the degree of population connectivity and investigating factors driving genetic
exchange at various geographical scales are essential to understanding population …

Comparisons of related species that have diverse spatial distributions provide an efficient
way to investigate adaptive evolution in face of increasing global warming. The oyster …

This major textbook provides a broad coverage of the ecological foundations of marine
conservation, including the rationale, importance and practicalities of various approaches to …

Mounting evidence of cryptic species in the marine realm emphasizes the necessity to
thoroughly revise our current perceptions of marine biodiversity and species distributions …

Comparing the responses of closely related species to environmental changes is an efficient
method to explore adaptive divergence, for a better understanding of the adaptive evolution …

Within the landscape of globally distributed pathogens, populations differentiate via both
adaptive and nonadaptive forces. Individual populations are likely to show unique trends of …

Zhikong scallop (Chlamys farreri) is an economically important bivalve species and a major
contributor to aquaculture in China as it is nutrient-dense and has a large adductor muscle …