Inbreeding depression—the reduced survival and fertility of offspring of related individuals—
occurs in wild animal and plant populations as well as in humans, indicating that genetic …

Migration strategies in fishes comprise a rich, ecologically important, and socioeconomically
valuable example of biological diversity. The variation and flexibility in migration is evident …

Genomic scans of multiple populations often reveal marker loci with greatly increased
differentiation between populations. Often this differentiation coincides in space with …

Sexual reproduction is a nearly universal feature of eukaryotic organisms. Given its ubiquity
and shared core features, sex is thought to have arisen once in the last common ancestor to …

Hybridization is a potent evolutionary process that can affect the origin, maintenance, and
loss of biodiversity. Because of its ecological and evolutionary consequences, an …

Developments in molecular and systems biology have enabled novel approaches to be
used in the study of inbreeding. Mechanistic and functional studies using 'omic'technologies …

In hermaphrodites, traits that influence the selfing rate can coevolve with inbreeding
depression, leading to the emergence of evolutionary syndromes. Theory predicts a …

Colonization success increases with the size of the founding group. Both demographic and
genetic factors underlie this relationship, yet because genetic diversity normally increases …

High propagule pressure is arguably the only consistent predictor of colonization success.
More individuals enhance colonization success because they aid in overcoming …

Premise What maintains mixed mating is an evolutionary enigma. Cleistogamy—the
production of both potentially outcrossing chasmogamous and obligately selfing …