The metaphor of 'genomic islands of speciation'was first used to describe heterogeneous
differentiation among loci between the genomes of closely related species. The biological …

As most biologists are probably aware, technological advances in molecular biology during
the last few years have opened up possibilities to rapidly generate large-scale sequencing …

Discovering the mutational events that fuel adaptation to environmental change remains an
important challenge for evolutionary biology. The classroom example of a visible …

Background Second-generation sequencing technologies are precipitating major shifts with
regards to what kinds of genomes are being sequenced and how they are annotated. While …

Hybridisation and introgression can dramatically alter the relationships among groups of
species, leading to phylogenetic discordance across the genome and between populations …

Most speciation events probably occur gradually, without complete and immediate
reproductive isolation, but the full extent of gene flow between diverging species has rarely …

Supergenes are tight clusters of loci that facilitate the co-segregation of adaptive variation,
providing integrated control of complex adaptive phenotypes. Polymorphic supergenes, in …

We introduce the concept of topology weighting, a method for quantifying relationships
between taxa that are not necessarily monophyletic, and visualizing how these relationships …

It is widely documented that hybridisation occurs between many closely related species, but
the importance of introgression in adaptive evolution remains unclear, especially in animals …

Mimicry—whereby warning signals in different species evolve to look similar—has long
served as a paradigm of convergent evolution. Little is known, however, about the genes …