Few genetic markers, if any, have found such widespread use as microsatellites, or
simple/short tandem repeats. Features such as hypervariability and ubiquitous occurrence …

H istory sometimes takes ironical twists, and the history of science is no exception.
Microsatellites have been detected in eukaryote genomes for over 15 years, though they …

When a population experiences a reduction of its effective size, it generally develops a
heterozygosity excess at selectively neutral loci, ie, the heterozygosity computed from a …

Paternity inference using highly polymorphic codominant markers is becoming common in
the study of natural populations. However, multiple males are often found to be genetically …

A new measure of the extent of population subdivision as inferred from allele frequencies at
microsatellite loci is proposed and tested with computer simulations. This measure, called R …

Mutational processes of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in complex genomes are poorly
understood. We examined these processes by introducing a two-phase mutation model. In …

Repetitive DNA sequences form a large portion of the genomes of eukaryotes. The'selfish
DNA'hypothesis proposes that they are maintained by their ability to replicate within the …

Microsatellite markers are routinely used to investigate the genetic structuring of natural
populations. The knowledge of how genetic variation is partitioned among populations may …

Over the past two decades, new molecular genetic techniques have had substantial impacts
on the fields of ecology, evolution and conservation. However, our current toolbox of genetic …

Identifying recently bottlenecked populations (populations severely reduced in size) is
important because bottlenecks can increase demographic stochasticity, rate of inbreeding …