Chromosome polymorphisms track trans‐Atlantic divergence and secondary contact in Atlantic salmon

SJ Lehnert, P Bentzen, T Kess, S Lien… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pleistocene glaciations drove repeated range contractions and expansions shaping
contemporary intraspecific diversity. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the western and …

The genetic legacy of 50 years of desert bighorn sheep translocations

JP Jahner, MD Matocq, JL Malaney… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation biologists have increasingly used translocations to mitigate population
declines and restore locally extirpated populations. Genetic data can guide the selection of …

Evaluating wildlife translocations using genomics: a bighorn sheep case study

EP Flesch, TA Graves, JM Thomson… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife restoration often involves translocation efforts to reintroduce species and
supplement small, fragmented populations. We examined the genomic consequences of …

Multiple refugia from penultimate glaciations in East Asia demonstrated by phylogeography and ecological modelling of an insect pest

W Song, LJ Cao, BY Li, YJ Gong, AA Hoffmann… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Refugial populations in Quaternary glaciations are critical to
understanding the evolutionary history and climatic interactions of many extant species …

Population structure of threatened caribou in western Canada inferred from genome-wide SNP data

M Cavedon, J Poissant, B VonHoldt, A Michalak… - Conservation …, 2022 - Springer
Within-species, biodiversity can be organized in units, ranging from subspecies to
evolutionarily significant units (ESUs), populations and social groups. To define ESUs …

Landscape genetics reveal broad and fine‐scale population structure due to landscape features and climate history in the northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) in …

JM Waraniak, JDL Fisher, K Purcell… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Prehistoric climate and landscape features play large roles structuring wildlife populations.
The amphibians of the northern Great Plains of North America present an opportunity to …

Late Pleistocene origin of the entire circumarctic range of the arctic‐alpine plant Kalmia procumbens

H Ikeda, PB Eidesen, V Yakubov, V Barkalov… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The circumarctic ranges of arctic‐alpine plants are thought to have been established in the
late Pliocene/early Pleistocene, when the modern arctic tundra was formed in response to …

Range-wide variation in the effect of spring snow phenology on Dall sheep population dynamics

M Van de Kerk, D Verbyla, AW Nolin… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding the underlying mechanisms of species distributions and range limits is
critical to predicting species responses to climate change. The relationship between climate …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogeography within the Peromyscus maniculatus species group: Understanding past distribution of genetic diversity and areas of refugia in western North …

RA Boria, JL Blois - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2023 - Elsevier
The effects of anthropogenic climate change on biodiversity have been recognized on every
continent, ocean, and across different taxonomic groups. Here, we study the range dynamics …

Ancient hybridization patterns between bighorn and thinhorn sheep

SHD Santos, RM Peery, JM Miller, A Dao… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Whole‐genome sequencing has advanced the study of species evolution, including the
detection of genealogical discordant events such as ancient hybridization and incomplete …