Louis Bernatchez

TL;DR: Evidence of significantly high levels of molecular divergence among eight growth QTL where two of the strongest candidate loci under the influence of directional selection exhibited parallel reductions of gene flow over multiple populations is found.

TL;DR: The use of eDNA metabarcoding for surveying animal and plant richness, and the challenges in using eDNA approaches to estimate relative abundance are reviewed, which distill what is known about the ability of different eDNA sample types to approximate richness in space and across time.

TL;DR: Overall, the evidence is compelling that the MHC currently represents the best system available in vertebrates to investigate how natural selection can promote local adaptation at the gene level despite the counteracting actions of migration and genetic drift.

TL;DR: Combining phylogeographic data from mitochondrial DNA of Nearctic and Palearctic freshwater and anadromous fishes with historical events to assess the influence of historical events on evolutionary patterns and processes in regional fish faunas demonstrates that comparative phylOgeography can be used to evaluate not only phylo geographic patterns but also evolutionary processes.

TL;DR: This work provides a context-based framework for delineating ESUs which circumvents much of this situation and accepts that differing criteria will work more dynamically than others and can be used alone or in combination depending on the situation.