The advent of the ability to generate relatively inexpensive genomic-level data is presenting researchers the opportunity to leverage the power of genomic technologies to explore the evolutionary histories and population processes of non-model organisms.
My lab has started generating and publishing research using reduced representation sequencing approaches such as restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RAD) to generate population genomic data for several molluscan species. To date, our results have have confirmed previous studies that used microsatellite genotyping, but have provided more robust results and have resealed population structure at a finer geographic scale.