The method to estimate contemporary effective population size (N e) based on patterns of
linkage disequilibrium (LD) at unlinked loci has been widely applied to natural and …

Few doubt that effective population size (N e) is one of the most important parameters in
evolutionary biology, but how many can say they really understand the concept? N e is the …

The evolution of eukaryotic genomes is accompanied by fluctuations in chromosome
number, reflecting cycles of chromosome number increase (polyploidy and centric fissions) …

Chromosome folding has profound impacts on gene regulation, whose evolutionary
consequences are far from being understood. Here we explore the relationship between 3D …

In genomic‐scale data sets, loci are closely packed within chromosomes and hence provide
correlated information. Averaging across loci as if they were independent creates …

The role of recombination in genome evolution has long been studied in theory, but until
recently empirical investigations had been limited to a small number of model species. Here …

The structure of the genome shapes the distribution of genetic diversity and sequence
divergence. To investigate how the relationship between chromosome size and …

Recent studies investigating the evolution of genome size diversity in ferns have shown that
they have a distinctive genome profile compared with other land plants. Ferns are typically …

Abstract Heliconius butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) are a group of 48 neotropical
species widely studied in evolutionary research. Despite the wealth of genomic data …

As important as the events that influence selection for specific chromosome types in the
derivation of novel karyotypes, are the events that initiate the changes in chromosome …