Plant speciation and diversification strongly rely on structural changes in the nuclear
genome, both at the whole ploidy and individual chromosome level. Phylogenetic …

Studies on polymorphisms have been foundational to our understanding of evolution. The
presence of different phenotypic morphs is sometimes considered a precursor to speciation …

Genome‐scan methods are used for screening genomewide patterns of DNA polymorphism
to detect signatures of positive selection. There are two main types of methods:(i)'outlier' …

The genetic basis of parallel evolution of similar species is of great interest in evolutionary
biology. In the adaptive radiation of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes, sister species with either …

Plants adapted to special soil types are ideal for investigating evolutionary processes,
including maintenance of intraspecific variation, adaptation, reproductive isolation, ecotypic …

Modes and mechanisms of speciation are best studied in young species pairs. In older taxa,
it is increasingly difficult to distinguish what happened during speciation from what …

The earliest stages of convergent evolution are difficult to observe in the wild, limiting our
understanding of the incipient genomic architecture underlying convergent phenotypes [1 …

Parallel and convergent evolution offer some of the most compelling evidence for the
significance of natural selection in evolution, as the emergence of similar adaptive solutions …

When environments change, populations may adapt surprisingly fast, repeatedly and even
at microgeographic scales. There is increasing evidence that such cases of rapid parallel …

Local adaptation to climate allows plants to cope with temporally and spatially
heterogeneous environments, and parallel phenotypic clines provide a natural experiment …