As population genomic datasets grow in size, researchers are faced with the daunting task
of making sense of a flood of information. To keep pace with this explosion of data …

Recombination is a central biological process with implications for many areas in the life
sciences. Yet we are only beginning to appreciate variation in the recombination rate along …

Introgression can be an important source of new alleles for adaption under rapidly changing
environments, perhaps even more important than standing variation. Though introgression …

The transition from 'well-marked varieties' of a single species into 'well-defined species'—
especially in the absence of geographic barriers to gene flow (sympatric speciation)—has …

Controlled pedigrees and the multi-decade timescale of national crop plant breeding
programs offer a unique experimental context for examining how selection affects plant …

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be found in the wild and is also
frequently associated with human activities. Despite recent insights into the phylogeny of this …

Population-scale genomic data sets have given researchers incredible amounts of
information from which to infer evolutionary histories. Concomitant with this flood of data …

Rapeseed (Brassica napus), an important oilseed crop, has adapted to diverse climate
zones and latitudes by forming three main ecotype groups, namely winter, semi-winter, and …

It is increasingly realized that homoploid hybrid speciation (HHS), which involves no change
in chromosome number, is an important mechanism of speciation. HHS will likely increase in …

Goat domestication was critical for agriculture and civilization, but its underlying genetic
changes and selection regimes remain unclear. Here, we analyze the genomes of …