Laurent Excoffier

TL;DR: The SCALES project as mentioned in this paper analyzes how selected pressures (climate change, habitat loss, fragmentation, disturbance), their drivers, and their impacts on biodiversity change with spatial and temporal scale and develops methods for a better understanding of scaling properties of biological processes from the genet ic level to populations, communities, and ecosystem functions.

TL;DR: Because males are the heterogametic sex in mammals, the use of both Y-specific and mitochondrial polymorphisms with autosomal loci offers a unique opportunity to infer sex-specific population parameters and to explore crucial aspects of both breeding systems and dispersal strategies.

TL;DR: The phylogeographical analysis of 115 greater mouse‐eared bats sampled throughout Italy shows that 15 of the 18 different haplotypes found in the mitochondrial control region of these bats were unique to the Apennine peninsula, and indicates that central Italian populations of M. myotis are more closely related to Greek samples from across the Adriatic Sea, than to other Italian bats.

TL;DR: The incongruent patterns found in areas of postglacial recolonization may show the presence of an additional refugial area for the fungal symbiont, and the impact that horizontal photobiont transmission and different mutation rates of the symbionts have on their genotypic associations at a continental scale is identified.

TL;DR: The approach strengthens the application of the ABC method to the field of bioinvasion by allowing statistical inferences to be made on the introduction and the spatial expansion dynamics of invasive species using a combination of various relevant sources of information.