The fundamental shift associated with the domestication of plants and animals allowed for a
dramatic increase in human population sizes and the emergence of modern society. Despite …

Profound knowledge of demographic history is a prerequisite for the understanding and
inference of processes involved in the evolution of population differentiation and speciation …

The formation of species in the absence of geographic barriers (ie sympatric speciation)
remains one of the most controversial topics in evolutionary biology. While theoretical …

Boreal and cool temperate forests are the major land cover of northern Eurasia, and
information about continental‐scale genetic structure and past demographic history of forest …

The rapid development of sequencing technologies represents new opportunities for
population genetics research. It is expected that genomic data will increase our ability to …

Conservation of the local genetic variation and evolutionary integrity of economically and
ecologically important trees is a key aspect of studies involving forest genetics, and a …

A central statistical goal is to choose between alternative explanatory models of data. In
many modern applications, such as population genetics, it is not possible to apply standard …

Aim Species with widespread distributions offer excellent opportunities for investigating
recent biogeographical patterns across broad scales. Here, we tested the hypothesis that …

Abstract Background The South China landmass has been characterized by a complex
geological history, including mountain lifting, climate changes, and river capture/reversal …

Paleo-environmental reconstructions show that the distribution of tropical African rain forests
was affected by Quaternary climate changes. They suggest that the Dahomey Gap (DG) …