Dispersal drives diverse processes from population persistence to community dynamics. However, the amount of temporal variation in dispersal and its consequences for metapopulation dynamics is largely unknown for organisms with environmentally driven dispersal (e.g., many marine larvae, arthropods and plant seeds). Here, we used genetic parentage analysis to detect larval dispersal events in a common coral reef fish, Amphiprio...

Sequencing reduced‐representation libraries of restriction site‐associated DNA ( RAD seq) to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms ( SNP s) is quickly becoming a standard methodology for molecular ecologists. Because of the scale of RAD seq data sets, putative loci cannot be assessed individually, making the process of filtering noise and correctly identifying biologically meaningful signal more difficult. Artefacts introdu...

We are writing in response to the population and phylogenomics meeting review by Andrews & Luikart ( ) entitled ‘Recent novel approaches for population genomics data analysis’. Restriction‐site‐associated DNA ( RAD ) sequencing has become a powerful and useful approach in molecular ecology, with several different published methods now available to molecular ecologists, none of which can be considered the best option in all sit...

The susceptibility of the Y chromosome to sexual selection may make this chromosome an important player in the formation of reproductive isolating barriers, and ultimately speciation. Here, we investigate the role of the Y chromosome in phenotypic divergence and reproductive isolation of spinner dolphin ( S tenella longirostris ) ecotypes. This species contains six known ecotypes (grouped into four subspecies) that exhibit str...