Foundress re-emergence and fig permeability in fig tree-wasp mutualisms.

abstract：:Dispersal is one of the most important precopulatory inbreeding avoidance mechanisms and subject to landscape related selection pressures. In small populations, inbreeding within and between populations may strongly affect population dynamics if it reduces fitness and gene-flow. While inbreeding avoidance is generally...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bonte D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nutrient limitation hypothesis provides a nongenetic explanation for the evolution of life cycles that retain both haploid and diploid phases: differences in nutrient requirements and uptake allow haploids to override the potential genetic advantages provided by diploidy under certain nutrient limiting conditions....

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Mable BK

更新日期：2001-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphic inversions are ubiquitous across the animal kingdom and are frequently associated with clines in inversion frequencies across environmental gradients. Such clines are thought to result from selection favouring local adaptation; however, empirical tests are scarce. The seaweed fly Coelopa frigida has an α/β...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wellenreuther M,Rosenquist H,Jaksons P,Larson KW

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical studies of sexual selection typically focus on one of the two mechanisms of sexual selection without integrating these into a description of total sexual selection, or study total sexual selection without quantifying the contributions of all of the mechanisms of sexual selection. However, this can provide an...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hunt J,Breuker CJ,Sadowski JA,Moore AJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of endemic South American canid fauna has been traditionally linked with the rise of the Isthmus of Panama, suggesting that diversification of the dog fauna on this continent occurred very rapidly. Nevertheless, despite its obvious biogeographic appeal, the tempo of Canid evolution in South America has neve...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Perini FA,Russo CA,Schrago CG

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most sweeping of all patterns in morphological evolution is that animal genitalia tend to diverge more rapidly than do other structures. Abundant indirect evidence supports the cryptic female choice (CFC) explanation of this pattern, which supposes that male genitalia often function to court females during ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Briceño RD,Eberhard WG

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androdioecy (mixtures of males and hermaphrodites) is a rare mating system in both plants and animals. Theory suggests that high levels of inbreeding depression can maintain males in androdioecious populations if hermaphrodites commonly self-fertilize. However, if inbreeding depression (delta) can be 'purged' from sel...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Weeks SC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent contributions from DNA sequences have revolutionized our concept of systematic relationships in angiosperms. However, parts of the angiosperm tree remain unclear. Previous studies have been based on coding or rDNA regions of relatively conserved genes. A phylogeny for basal angiosperms based on noncoding, fast-...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Borsch T,Hilu KW,Quandt D,Wilde V,Neinhuis C,Barthlott W

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid evolutionary divergence of male genital structures under sexual selection is well documented. However, variation in female genital traits and the potential for sexual conflict to drive the coevolution between male and female traits has only recently received attention. In many lepidopterans, females possess ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： McNamara KB,Dougherty LR,Wedell N,Simmons LW

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive evolution often involves beneficial mutations at more than one locus. In this case, the trajectory and rate of adaptation is determined by the underlying fitness landscape, that is, the fitness values and mutational connectivity of all genotypes under consideration. Drug resistance, especially resistance to m...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Engelstädter J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Character displacement - the divergence of traits between species in response to competition for resources or mates - has long been viewed as a major cause of adaptive diversification and species coexistence. Yet, we lack answers to basic questions concerning the causes and consequences of character displacement, not ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rice AM,Pfennig DW

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current understanding of sex chromosome evolution is largely dependent on species with highly degenerated, heteromorphic sex chromosomes, but by studying species with recently evolved or morphologically indistinct sex chromosomes we can greatly increase our understanding of sex chromosome origins, degeneration and tur...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Keating SE,Griffing AH,Nielsen SV,Scantlebury DP,Gamble T

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has often been argued that evolutionary diversification is the result of divergent natural selection for specialization on alternative resources. I provide a comprehensive review of experiments that examine the ecology and genetics of resource specialization and adaptive radiation in microbial microcosms. In these ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： MacLean RC

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was originally thought to prevent any response to selection on male phenotypic variation attributable to mtDNA, resulting in a male-biased mtDNA mutation load ("mother's curse"). However, the theory underpinning this claim implicitly assumes that a male's mtDNA has no ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Keaney TA,Wong HWS,Dowling DK,Jones TM,Holman L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male-killing bacteria are thought to persist in host populations by vertical transmission and conferring direct and/or indirect fitness benefits to their hosts. Here, we test the role of indirect fitness benefits accrued from resource reallocation in species that engage in sibling egg cannibalism. We found that a sing...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Elnagdy S,Majerus ME,Handley LJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic architecture fundamentally affects the way that traits evolve. However, the mapping of genotype to phenotype includes complex interactions with the environment or even the sex of an organism that can modulate the expressed phenotype. Line-cross analysis is a powerful quantitative genetics method to infer genet...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Armstrong A,Anderson NW,Blackmon H

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divergent selection stemming from environmental variation may induce local adaptation and ecological speciation whereas gene flow might have a homogenizing effect. Gene flow among populations using different environments can be reduced by geographical distance (isolation-by-distance) or by divergent selection stemming...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Edelaar P,Alonso D,Lagerveld S,Senar JC,Björklund M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although numerous studies have attempted to find single unifying mechanisms for generating Madagascar's unique flora and fauna, little consensus has been reached regarding the relative importance of climatic, geologic and ecological processes as catalysts of diversification of the region's unique biota. Rather, recent...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Blair C,Noonan BP,Brown JL,Raselimanana AP,Vences M,Yoder AD

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic comparative methods are extremely commonly used in evolutionary biology. In this paper, I highlight some of the problems that are frequently encountered in comparative analyses and review how they can be fixed. In broad terms, the problems boil down to a lack of appreciation of the underlying assumptions ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Freckleton RP

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of phylogenetic signal is assumed to be ubiquitous. However, for microorganisms, this may not be true given that they display high physiological flexibility and have fast regeneration. This may result in fundamentally different patterns of resemblance, that is, in variable strength of phylogenetic signal....

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Krause S,van Bodegom PM,Cornwell WK,Bodelier PL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical models predict that parasite relatedness affects the outcome of competition between parasites, and the evolution of parasite virulence. We examined whether parasite relatedness affects competition between parasitic plants (Cuscuta europaea) that share common host plants (Urtica dioica). We infected hosts w...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Puustinen S,Koskela T,Mutikainen P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decoupling between floral and leaf traits is expected in plants with specialized pollination systems to assure a precise flower-pollinator fit, irrespective of leaf variation associated with environmental heterogeneity (functional modularity). Nonetheless, developmental interactions among floral traits also decouple f...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wanderley AM,Galetto L,Machado IC

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic variation can arise from differences in the protein coding sequence and in the regulatory elements. However, little is known about the contribution of regulatory difference to the expression divergence, especially the cis and trans regulatory variation to the expression divergence in intraspecific populatio...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Huang YH,Hsieh DK,Sung HM

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaternary environmental changes substantially impacted the landscape and promoted rapid evolutionary changes in many species; however, analyses of adaptive phenotypic variation in plants have usually neglected the underlying historical context. Here, we associate phylogeography and phenotypic evolution by analysing t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Maubecin CC,Cosacov A,Sérsic AN,Fornoni J,Benitez-Vieyra S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To resolve a panselectionist paradox, the population geneticist Kimura invented a neutral theory, where each gene is equally likely to enter the next generation whatever its allelic type. To learn what could be explained without invoking Darwinian adaptive divergence, Hubbell devised a similar neutral theory for fores...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Leigh EG Jr

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic polymorphisms in natural systems are often maintained by ecological selection, but only if niche segregation between morphs exists. Polymorphism for eyed-side direction is rare among the approximately 700 species of flatfish (Pleuronectiformes), and the evolutionary mechanisms that maintain it are unknown. ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bergstrom CA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyembryonic encyrtid wasps are parasitoids that have evolved a clonal form of embryogenesis and a caste system where some progeny become reproducing wasps whereas others develop into a sterile soldier caste. Theory based on the biology of Copidosoma floridanum predicts that the primary role of soldier larvae is to m...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Smith MS,Milton I,Strand MR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central tool for the study of allele frequency change due to selection is the remarkably simple but powerful formula of Price [Nature 227 (1970) 520]. Here, I provide what might be called a structural analysis of this formula. The formula essentially accumulates the average allele frequency change over many instan...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Taylor P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species delay development unless particular environments or rare disturbance events occur. How can such a strategy be favoured over continued development? Typically, it is assumed that continued development (e.g. germination) is not advantageous in environments that have low juvenile/seedling survival (mechanism ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Scott MF,Otto SP

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory suggests that intraspecific competition associated with direct competition between inbred and outbred individuals should be an important determinant of the severity of inbreeding depression. The reason is that, if outbred individuals are stronger competitors than inbred ones, direct competition should have a di...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Miller M,Ratz T,Richardson J,Smiseth PT

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00