Phillip C. Watts

TL;DR: Genetic fingerprinting is used to identify parthenogenetic offspring produced by two female Komodo dragons that had been kept at separate institutions and isolated from males; one of these females subsequently produced additional offspring sexually.

TL;DR: The damselfly Coenagrion mercuriale is used as a model to evaluate directly the relationship between estimates of dispersal rate measured during capture–mark–recapture fieldwork with those made from the spatial pattern of genetic markers in linear and two‐dimensional habitats, and a refined estimator is evaluated that performs better under most situations.

TL;DR: For invertebrate fisheries genetic data are relatively far more important if a fishery is to be exploited without being endangered, and face a number of additional problems, mostly related to the large evolutionary range of invertebrates exploited and their widely different biology.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combined an intensive mark-release-recapture (MRR) study with a microsatellite-based genetic analysis for Coenagrion mercuriale from the Itchen Valley, UK, as part of an effort to understand the dispersal characteristics of this protected species.

TL;DR: It is argued that the unique features of this group combined with their complex life cycle, flight behaviour, diversity in ecological niches and their sensitivity to anthropogenic change make odonates a promising and fruitful taxon for genomics focused research.