Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective
strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the …

Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species' geographic ranges,
increasing extinction risk and losses of species' genetic diversity. Although preserving …

Understanding how natural selection shapes genetic variation in populations is of
paramount importance in evolutionary biology. Affordable high-throughput sequencing now …

Abstract The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) is building a catalogue of
mammalian gene function by producing and phenotyping a knockout mouse line for every …

North America is currently home to a number of grey wolf (Canis lupus) and wolf-like canid
populations, including the coyote (Canis latrans) and the taxonomically controversial red …

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on
topics including rise in biological reality of the assumptions underlying scans for selection …

Chemosensation (olfaction, taste) is essential for detecting and assessing foods, such that
dietary shifts elicit evolutionary changes in vertebrate chemosensory genes. The transition …

Populations of invasive species that colonize and spread in novel environments may
differentiate both through demographic processes and local selection. European starlings …

Deciphering the origins of phenotypic variations in natural animal populations is a
challenging topic for evolutionary and conservation biologists. Atypical morphologies in …

Next generation sequencing (NGS) and genomic database mining allow biologists to gather
and select large molecular datasets well suited to address phylogenomics and molecular …