Animal personality can be seen as behavioral polymorphism that could play a direct and
active role in driving evolutionary pathways. We argue here that consistent individual …

Spatial sorting of dispersal-enhancing traits has been implicated in substantial directional
changes in the phenotypic and genotypic makeup of populations undergoing range expansion…

Many temperate species experienced demographic and range contractions in response to
climatic changes during Pleistocene glaciations. In this study, we investigate the evolutionary …

Genetic diversity feeds the evolutionary process and allows populations to adapt to environmental
changes. However, we still lack a thorough understanding of why hotspots of genetic …

… Finally, our results have at least 3 major implications for the conservation of R. dalmatina
populations, both within our study area and at the whole species' range. First, in order to …

Rare hybridisations between deeply divergent animal species have been reported for decades
in a wide range of taxa, but have often remained unexplained, mainly considered chance …

Dispersal is a key process in ecology and evolutionary biology, as it shapes biodiversity
patterns over space and time. Attitude to disperse is unevenly distributed among individuals …

Discordance between mitochondrial and nuclear patterns of population genetic structure is
providing key insights into the eco-evolutionary dynamics between and within species, and …

… was founded during a recent range expansion from Sardinia (Bisconti et al. 2011a, b), the
… did not differ appreciably between the studied populations (Bisconti et al. 2011a, b; see also …

How the often highly endemic biodiversity of islands originated has been debated for decades,
and it remains a fervid research ground. Here, using mitochondrial and nuclear gene …