Citation: Ersmark E, Klütsch CFC, Chan YL, Sinding M-HS, Fain SR, Illarionova NA, Oskarsson M, Uhlén M, Zhang Y-P, Dalén L and Savolainen P (2016) From the Past to the Present: Wolf Phylogeography and Demographic History Based on the Mitochondrial Control Region. Front. Ecol. Evol. 4:134. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00134 From the Past to the Present: Wolf Phylogeography and Demographic History Base...

Phylogeography is a relatively new discipline that deals with the spatial arrangements of genetic lineages, especially within and among closely related species. The word phylogeography was coined in 1987 (Avise et al., 1987). About a decade earlier, scientists had begun using mitochondrial (mt) DNA to address precisely how conspecific individuals are genealogically linked through shared ancesto...

Phylogeography combines geographic information with phylogenetic and population genomic approaches to infer the evolutionary history of a species or in context. This approach has been instrumental understanding emergence, spread, evolution range plant pathogens. In particular, phylogeography can address questions about where pathogen originated, whether it is native introduced, when how often i...

Understanding how geography, oceanography, and climate have ultimately shaped marine biodiversity requires aligning the distributions of genetic diversity across multiple taxa. Here, we examine phylogeographic partitions in the sea against a backdrop of biogeographic provinces defined by taxonomy, endemism, and species composition. The taxonomic identities used to define biogeographic provinces...

Citation: Enk J, Devault A, Widga C, Saunders J, Szpak P, Southon J, Rouillard J-M, Shapiro B, Golding GB, Zazula G, Froese D, Fisher DC, MacPhee RDE and Poinar H (2016) Mammuthus Population Dynamics in Late Pleistocene North America: Divergence, Phylogeography, and Introgression. Front. Ecol. Evol. 4:42. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00042 Mammuthus Population Dynamics in Late Pleistocene North Ameri...

Continuous phylogeography is a growing approach to studying the spatiotemporal origins of RNA viruses because of its realistic spatial reconstruction advantages over discrete phylogeography. While the generalized linear model has been demonstrated as an effective tool for simultaneously assessing the drivers impacting viral diffusion in discrete phylogeography, there is no similar testing metho...

The field of phylogeography continues to grow in terms of power and accessibility. Initially uniting population genetics and phylogenetics, it now spans disciplines as diverse as geology, statistics, climatology, ecology, physiology, and bioinformatics to name a few. One major and recent integration driving the field forward is between "statistical phylogeography" and Geographic Information Sys...

Phylogeography and landscape genetics have arisen within the past 30 y. Phylogeography is said to be the bridge between population genetics and systematics, and landscape genetics the bridge between landscape ecology and population genetics. Both fields can be considered as simply the amalgamation of classic biogeography with genetics and genomics; however, they differ in the temporal, spatial,...

Phylogeography is a young, vigorous and integrative field of study that uses genetic data to understand the history of populations. This field has recently expanded into many areas of biology and also into several historical disciplines of Earth sciences. In this review, I present a numerical synthesis of the phylogeography literature based on an examination of over 3000 articles published duri...

In the subsequent 20 years as the garden’s director, Maiden seized every opportunity to improve the herbarium. Even internationally destructive events such as World War I provided unexpected additions: one soldier alone donated 300 specimens from Palestine. And a further parcel from Kew revealed 58 acacia and 23 eucalypt specimens collected between 1816 and 1839. Maiden was also occupied by sev...