Advancing technologies have facilitated the ever‐widening application of genetic markers
such as microsatellites into new systems and research questions in biology. In light of the …

Simple Summary Microsatellite instability (MSI) has been detected in multiple types of
gynecologic cancers. MSI is linked to mutations in mismatch repair (MMR) genes that cause …

Motivation: DIYABC is a software package for a comprehensive analysis of population
history using approximate Bayesian computation on DNA polymorphism data. Version 2.0 …

Background Microsatellite markers are widely used for estimating genetic diversity within
and differentiation among populations. However, it has rarely been tested whether such …

Understanding the population structure and patterns of gene flow within species is of
fundamental importance to the study of evolution. In the fields of population and evolutionary …

Roads can have two important effects on populations that impact genetic variation: reduced
gene flow and reduced abundance. Reduced gene flow (“barrier effects”) due to road …

Short tandem repeats (STRs) are units of 1–6 bp that repeat in a tandem fashion in DNA.
Along with single nucleotide polymorphisms and large structural variations, they are among …

The tribe Fabeae (formerly Vicieae) contains some of humanity's most important grain
legume crops, namely Lathyrus (grass pea/sweet pea/chickling vetches; about 160 species); …

Hybridisation and gene introgression are important sources of diversification, the relevance
of which in the evolutionary processes is well recognised. Their fitness consequences in …

Quinoa cultivation in Chile presents an ancient and active complex of geographic, climatic,
social and cultural interactions that has determined its current biodiversity in the three main …