Luciano B. Beheregaray

TL;DR: This review presents a numerical synthesis of the phylogeography literature based on an examination of over 3000 articles published during the first 20 years of the field, and argues that the intellectual maturation of this field will eventually depend not only on developments in DNA technology, theory and statistical analysis, but also on syntheses of comparative information across different regions of the globe.

TL;DR: SSCP (single‐stranded conformation polymorphism) offers a sensitive but inexpensive, rapid, and convenient method for determining which DNA samples in a set differ in sequence, so that only an informative subset need be sequenced.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the optimal scale for fisheries management and reserve design should vary among localities in relation to regional oceanographic variability and coastal geography, and that ocean current circulation may interact with the genetic consequences of large variance in individual reproductive success to generate patterns of fine-scale patchy genetic structure.

TL;DR: The pattern of genetic structure indicates that phenotypic and reproductive divergence evolved in the face of potential gene flow between populations, and suggests that the ‘divergence‐with‐gene‐flow’ model of speciation may account for the diversification of estuarine populations.

TL;DR: Two new studies challenge paradigms about cryptic biodiversity and highlight the importance of adding a historical and biogeographic dimension to biodiversity research.