The importance of plant genetic diversity (PGD) is now being recognized as a specific area
since exploding population with urbanization and decreasing cultivable lands are the critical …

Environmental disturbance underpins the dynamics and diversity of many of the ecosystems
of the world, yet its influence on the patterns and distribution of genetic diversity is poorly …

Abstract genalex is a user‐friendly cross‐platform package that runs within Microsoft Excel,
enabling population genetic analyses of codominant, haploid and binary data. Allele …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

There has been a recent trend in genetic studies of wild populations where researchers
have changed their sampling schemes from sampling pre-defined populations to sampling …

The evolution of cooperation among animals has posed a major problem for evolutionary
biologists, and despite decades of research into avian cooperative breeding systems, many …

Sex‐biased dispersal is expected to generate differences in the fine‐scale genetic structure
of males and females. Therefore, spatial analyses of multilocus genotypes may offer a …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a review of mate choice and genetic quality,
defines mate choice, and discusses some of the key issues about how individuals can …

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal
used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant “Nature's greatest masterpiece …

Avian parents and social insect colonies are victimized by interspecific brood parasites—
cheats that procure costly care for their dependent offspring by leaving them in another …