Determining the source of individuals: multilocus genotyping in nonequilibrium population genetics

Recently founded populations represent an enormous challenge for genetic an alysis: new populations are often genetically impoverished, making it hard to find sufficiently variable markers, and what little variation is present tends to be ancestral, rendering phylogenetic methods inappropriate. Recen tly, novel genetic markers and new statistical analyses have made multilocu s genotyping an invaluable tool in the fledgling field of nonequilibrium po pulation genetics. Such advances are not of mere academic interest hut addr ess questions of great economic, medical and conservation significance.