The hepatitis E virus (HEV) was first identified in 1990, although hepatitis E-like diseases in
humans have been recorded for a long time dating back to the 18th century. The HEV …

Adaptation to adverse environmental conditions such as high altitude requires physiological
and/or morphological changes. Genome scans provide a means to identify the genetic basis …

Oceanic islands have been a test ground for evolutionary theory, but here, we focus on the
possibilities for evolutionary study created by offshore islands. These can be colonized …

The mammalian sex chromosome system (XX female/XY male) is ancient and highly
conserved. The sex chromosome karyotype of the creeping vole (Microtus oregoni) …

Rodents are important reservoirs for a large number of zoonotic pathogens. We examined
the occurrence of 11 viral, bacterial, and parasitic agents in rodent populations in Austria …

Phylogenetic reconstruction of the evolutionary history of closely related organisms may be
difficult because of the presence of unsorted lineages and of a relatively high proportion of …

Species identification through noninvasive sampling is increasingly used in animal
conservation genetics, given that it obviates the need to handle free‐living individuals …

In the last decade, amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) have become one of
the most widely used molecular markers to study the genetic structure of natural populations …

Species are generally described from morphological features, but there is growing
recognition of sister forms that show substantial genetic differentiation without obvious …

The genetic structure and dynamics of hybrid zones provide crucial information for
understanding the processes and mechanisms of evolutionary divergence and speciation. In …