The life cycles and dispersal of edible fungi are still poorly known, thus limiting our understanding of their evolution and domestication. The prized Tuber melanosporum produces fruitbodies (fleshy organs where meiospores mature) gathered in natural, spontaneously inoculated forests or harvested in plantations of nursery‐inoculated trees. Yet, how fruitbodies are formed remains unclear, thus limiting yields, and how current d...

Dispersal, or the amount of dispersion between an individual’s birthplace and that of its offspring, is of great importance in population biology, behavioural ecology and conservation, however, obtaining direct estimates from field data on natural populations can be problematic. The prickly forest skink, Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae , is a rainforest endemic skink from the wet tropics of Australia. Because of its log‐dwelling...

Ecotypic differentiation is well described in the mosquito Culex pipiens , separating populations breeding in subterranean and human‐made sites (hypogeous habitat) from those in open‐air sites (epigeous habitat). The pattern of population differentiation observed at the Aat‐1 locus has been suspected to be associated with such ecotypic differentiation via habitat‐dependent selection, but this supposition is still the subject o...