Microsatellites have been popular molecular markers ever since their advent in the late eighties.
Despite growing competition from new genotyping and sequencing techniques, the use …

Reducing pesticide use has become a goal shared by several European countries and a
major issue in public policies due to the negative impacts of pesticides on the environment and …

QDD is an open access program providing a user-friendly tool for microsatellite detection and
primer design from large sets of DNA sequences. The program is designed to deal with all …

Recent studies of the routes of worldwide introductions of alien organisms suggest that
many widespread invasions could have stemmed not from the native range, but from a …

Background The rapid evolution of 454 GS-FLX sequencing technology has not been
accompanied by a reassessment of the quality and accuracy of the sequences obtained. Current …

Microsatellites (or SSRs: simple sequence repeats) are among the most frequently used
DNA markers in many areas of research. The use of microsatellite markers is limited by the …

Populations are introduced into novel environments in different contexts, one being the
biological control of pests. Despite intense efforts, less than half introduced biological control …

Although a growing body of work supports the plausibility of sympatric speciation in animals,
the practical difficulties of directly quantifying reproductive isolation between diverging taxa …

Mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) are major pests of a wide range of crops and
ornamental plants worldwide. Their high degree of morphological similarity makes them difficult …

Inferences about introduction histories of invasive species remain challenging because of
the stochastic demographic processes involved. Approximate Bayesian computation ( ABC ) …