1. Designing ex-situ conservation strategies through the assessment of neutral genetic markers: Application to the endangered Androcymbium gramineum

   • Juli Caujapé-Castells
   • Joan Pedrola-Monfort

   OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 144

2. Genetic diversity and fitness in Scabiosa columbaria in the Swiss Jura in relation to population size

   • Andrea R. Pluess
   • J. Stöcklin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 156

3. The distribution of genetic variability in Baccharis concinna (Asteraceae), an endemic, dioecious and threatened shrub of rupestrian fields of Brazil

   • Vânia Gomes
   • Rosane G. Collevatti
   • G. Wilson Fernandes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 165

4. Patterns of genetic diversity in the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L.): Footprints of biogeographic history and artificial introductions

   • Marie L. Hale
   • Peter W.W. Lurz
   • Kirsten Wolff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 179

5. Multiple bottlenecks in threatened western European populations of the common hamster Cricetus cricetus (L.)

   • K. Neumann
   • H. Jansman
   • R. Gattermann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 193

6. Conservation genetics and evolutionary history of Gleditsia caspica: Inferences from allozyme diversity in populations from Azerbaijan

   • Andrew Schnabel
   • Konstantin V. Krutovskii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 204

7. Genetic variation across the current range of the Asian houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata macqueenii)

   • Christian Pitra
   • Marie-Ann D'Aloia
   • Olivier Combreau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 215

8. Genetic analysis of natural hybrids between endemic and alien Rubus (Rosaceae) species in Hawai`i

   • Rebecca A. Randell
   • Dianella G. Howarth
   • Clifford W. Morden

   OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 230

9. Genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in an agricultural landscape on the common Primula veris, and comparison with its rare congener, P. vulgaris

   • Fabienne Van Rossum
   • Sara Campos De Sousa
   • Ludwig Triest

   OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 245

10. Impact of habitat fragmentation on genetic population structure of roach, Rutilus rutilus, in a riparian ecosystem

    • Bernd Hänfling
    • W. Durka
    • R. Brandl

    OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 257

11. Dynamic management of genetic resources: maintenance of outcrossing in experimental metapopulations of a predominantly inbreeding species

    • Emmanuelle Porcher
    • Pierre-Henri Gouyon
    • Claire Lavigne

    OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 269

12. Extensive allozyme monomorphism in a threatened species of freshwater mussel, Margaritifera hembeli Conrad (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae)

    • Jason P. Curole
    • David W. Foltz
    • Kenneth M. Brown

    OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 278

13. Variable microsatellite markers amplify across divergent lineages of cyprinid fishes (subfamily Leusicinae)

    • Thomas F. Turner
    • Thomas E. Dowling
    • John R. Gold

    OriginalPaper Pages: 279 - 281

14. Isolation of Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers for the Alpine Lady Fern, Athyrium Distentifolium Tausch ex Opiz, from an Enriched Genomic Library

    • J. Squirrell
    • M. Woodhead
    • W. Powell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 286