Crop wild relatives are a valuable source of genetic material for improving cultivated crops. However, feral populations—self‐sustaining plants that have escaped cultivation—are often mistaken for wild relatives because they exhibit traits such as seed dispersal and dormancy, which resemble wild forms and support persistence in natural habitats. This study examined the genetic diversity, population structure, and morphology of...

The respective role of factors acting on population functioning can be inferred from a variety of approaches, including population genetics and demography. We here investigated the role of four of these factors (mating systems, population size, bottlenecks and migration) in the hermaphroditic freshwater snail Physa acuta . Twenty‐four populations were sampled either around Montpellier (local scale), or at the scale of France (...