We are please to announce that the first 2012 issue of Evolutionary Applications has now been published here. This is the first issue which has been published under an open access model. All articles in this issue are free to read, download and share for non-commercial use.

This is the first Wiley journal which has been converted from subscription to open access. Evolutionary Applications is a high impact factor journal (5.145) and it continues to publish under the direction of Louis Bernatchez, Editor-in-Chief, and Michelle Tseng, Founding and Managing Editor.