Phylogeographic analysis can be described as the study of the geological and climatological
processes that have produced contemporary geographic distributions of populations and …

Alu elements are a highly successful family of primate-specific retrotransposons that have
fundamentally shaped primate evolution, including the evolution of our own species. Alus play …

It is hypothesized that retrotransposons have played a fundamental role in primate evolution
and that enhanced neurologic retrotransposon activity in humans may underlie the origin of …

Mutations are the raw material on which evolution acts, and knowledge of their frequency and
genomic distribution is crucial for understanding how evolution operates at both long and …

Mouse lemurs (Microcebus) are a radiation of morphologically cryptic primates distributed
throughout Madagascar for which the number of recognized species has exploded in the past …

Whole tissue RNASeq is the standard approach for studying gene expression divergence in
evolutionary biology and provides a snapshot of the comprehensive transcriptome for a …

Anthropogenic disturbances associated with urban ecosystems can create favorable
conditions for populations of some invasive plant species. Light pollution is one of these …

Madagascar’s biodiversity is notoriously threatened by deforestation and climate change.
Many of these organisms are rare, cryptic, and severely threatened, making population-level …

Hybrid sterility is a complex phenotype that can result from the breakdown of spermatogenesis
at multiple developmental stages. Here, we disentangle two proposed hybrid male …

Sensory gene families are of special interest for both what they can tell us about molecular
evolution and what they imply as mediators of social communication. The vomeronasal type-1 …