Experimental evolution is the study of evolutionary processes occurring in experimental
populations in response to conditions imposed by the experimenter. This research approach …

The role of genetic factors in extinction has been a controversial issue, especially since
Lande's paper [Genetics and demography in biological conservation, Science 241 (1988) …

Genetic diversity is one of the three forms of biodiversity recognized by the World
Conservation Union (IUCN) as deserving conservation. The need to conserve genetic …

Heritability allows a comparison of the relative importance of genes and environment to the
variation of traits within and across populations. The concept of heritability and its definition …

Small populations are predicted to have reduced capacity to adapt to environmental change
for two reasons. First, population genetic models indicate that genetic variation and potential …

The ability of populations to undergo adaptive evolution depends on the presence of
quantitative genetic variation for ecologically important traits. Although molecular measures …

Biodiversity is increasingly subjected to human‐induced changes of the environment. To
persist, populations continually have to adapt to these often stressful changes including …

Conservation genetics studies of populations bottlenecks are commonly framed under the
detrimental paradigm of inbreeding depression. This conceptual paradigm presupposes a …

We critically review the two major theories of adaptive evolution developed early in this
century, Wright's shifting balance theory and Fisher's large population size theory, in light of …

Flour beetles of the genus Tribolium have been utilised as informative study systems for over
a century and contributed to major advances across many fields. This review serves to …