Omnivory in lacertid lizards: adaptive evolution or constraint?

abstract：:Plants exist across varying biotic and abiotic environments, including variation in the composition of soil microbial communities. The ecological effects of soil microbes on plant communities are well known, whereas less is known about their importance for plant evolutionary processes. In particular, the net effects o...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Fitzpatrick CR,Mustafa Z,Viliunas J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When individuals interact, phenotypic variation can be partitioned into direct genetic effects (DGEs) of the individuals' own genotypes, indirect genetic effects (IGEs) of their social partners' genotypes and epistatic interactions between the genotypes of interacting individuals ('genotype-by-genotype (GxG) epistasis...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Buttery NJ,Thompson CR,Wolf JB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vertebrates, changes in cranial modularity can evolve rapidly in response to selection. However, mammals have apparently maintained their pattern of cranial integration throughout their evolutionary history and across tremendous morphological and ecological diversity. Here, we use phylogenetic, geometric morphometr...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Santana SE,Lofgren SE

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the evolution of multiple mating by females (polyandry) is an important question in behavioural ecology. Most leading explanations for polyandry by social insect queens are based upon a postulated fitness benefit from increased intracolonial genetic diversity, which also arises when colonies are headed b...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hughes WO,Ratnieks FL,Oldroyd BP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical models of the advantage of sexual reproduction typically assume that reproductive output is equal in sexual and parthenogenetic females. We tested this assumption by comparing fecundity between parthenogenetic and sexual races of gekkonid lizards in the Heteronotia binoei complex, collected across a 1200 k...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kearney M,Shine R

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how phenotypic diversity evolves is a major interest of evolutionary biology. Habitat use is an important factor in the evolution of phenotypic diversity of many animal species. Interestingly, male and female phenotypes have been frequently shown to respond differently to environmental variation. At the ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kaliontzopoulou A,Carretero MA,Adams DC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologically important traits of insects are often affected by facultative bacterial endosymbionts. This is best studied in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, which is frequently infected by one or more of eight facultative symbiont species. Many of these symbiont species have been shown to provide one ecological bene...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Heyworth ER,Ferrari J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although adaptive divergence along environmental gradients has repeatedly been demonstrated, the role of post-glacial colonization routes in determining phenotypic variation along gradients has received little attention. Here, we used a hierarchical QST -FST approach to separate the roles of adaptive and neutral proce...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Luquet E,Rödin Mörch P,Cortázar-Chinarro M,Meyer-Lucht Y,Höglund J,Laurila A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the relevance of honest signalling theory to the evolution of aposematism. We begin with a general consideration of models of signal stability, with a focus on the Zahavian costly signalling framework. Next, we review early models of signalling in the context of aposematism (some that are consistent and som...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Summers K,Speed MP,Blount JD,Stuckert AM

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades of experiments have demonstrated the ecological effect of competition, but experimental evidence for competitive effects on trait evolution is rare. I measured the evolution of six protozoan traits in response to competitors from the inquiline community of pitcher plants. Replicate populations of Colpoda, a ci...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： terHorst CP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals display complex colour patterns that comprise several adjacent, often contrasting colour patches. Combining patches of complementary colours increases the overall conspicuousness of the complex pattern, enhancing signal detection. Therefore, selection for conspicuousness may act not only on the design of ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Pérez I de Lanuza G,Font E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the 'pace-of-life' syndrome hypothesis, differences in resting metabolic rate (RMR) should be genetically associated with exploratory behaviour. A large number of studies reported significant heritability for both RMR and exploratory behaviour, but the genetic correlation between the two has yet to be doc...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Careau V,Thomas D,Pelletier F,Turki L,Landry F,Garant D,Réale D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune defence is hypothesized to be a trait that bears significant fitness costs as well as benefits in that mounting a defence depreciates the value of other life-history traits. Thus the cost of mounting an immune response could affect the evolution of both the immune system and correlated life history traits. In t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rantala MJ,Roff DA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of mature eggs remaining in the ovaries and the time left for oviposition determine the reproductive decisions of the hyperdiverse guild of insects that require discrete and potentially limiting resources for oviposition (such as seeds, fruits or other insects). A female may run out of eggs before all avail...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Deas JB,Hunter MS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared historic and contemporary genetic variation in two threatened New Zealand birds (saddlebacks and robins) with disparate bottleneck histories. Saddlebacks showed massive loss of genetic variation when extirpated from the mainland, but no significant loss of variation following a severe bottleneck in the 196...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Taylor SS,Jamieson IG,Wallis GP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface area-to-volume ratio of cells is one of the key factors affecting fundamental biological processes and, thus, fitness of unicellular organisms. One of the general models for allometric increase in surface-to-volume scaling involves fractal-like elaboration of cellular surfaces. However, specific data illus...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Neustupa J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding factors involved in maintaining stable hybrid zones is important for predicting the ultimate fate of the interacting taxa, but the relative importance of mechanisms such as ecological selection and intrinsic reproductive isolation remains unclear. Most studies of reproductive isolation in hybrid zones ha...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： McKenzie JL,Bucking C,Moreira A,Schulte PM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the selective consequences of variation in behaviour and endocrine physiology in two female throat-colour morphs of the lizard, Uta stansburiana in the wild. Female morphs differed in home-range distribution patterns and corticosterone levels in relation to the density and frequency of their female neighbo...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Comendant T,Sinervo B,Svensson EI,Wingfield J

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of plants to respond to natural enemies might depend on the availability of genetic variation for the optimal phenotypic expression of defence. Selfing can affect the distribution of genetic variability of plant fitness, resistance and tolerance to herbivores and pathogens. The hypothesis of inbreeding dep...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bello-Bedoy R,Núñez-Farfán J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated genetic variability and genetic correlations in early life-history traits of Crassostrea gigas. Larval survival, larval development rate, size at settlement and metamorphosis success were found to be substantially heritable, whereas larval growth rate and juvenile traits were not. We identified a stron...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Ernande B,Clobert J,McCombie H,Boudry P

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warning coloration is a widespread strategy to alert predators about prey unprofitability. The success of this strategy partly depends on predators being able to learn and recognize certain signals as indicators of toxicity, and theory predicts that this is easier if signals converge on similar colours. However, the d...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Arenas LM,Stevens M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually selected traits that are costly are predicted to be more condition dependent than nonsexually selected traits. Assuming resource limitation, increased allocation to a sexually selected trait may also come at a cost to other fitness components. To test these predictions, we varied adult food ration to manipula...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Punzalan D,Cooray M,Helen Rodd F,Rowe L

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For 8 years I have been pursuing in print an ambitious and at times highly technical programme of work, the 'Formal Darwinism Project', whose essence is to underpin and formalize the fitness optimization ideas used by behavioural ecologists, using a new kind of argument linking the mathematics of motion and the mathem...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Grafen A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary mechanisms underlying the maintenance of invariant traits are poorly understood, partly because the lack of variance makes these mechanisms difficult to study. Although the number of cotyledons that plant species produce is highly canalized, populations of plants frequently contain individuals with ab...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Conner JK,Agrawal AA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the ubiquitous nature of sperm storage in invertebrates, relatively little is known about its costs, or the impact that immune activation can have on a female's ability to maintain viable sperm stores. We explored the effects of an immune challenge on sperm storage under food-limited and ad libitum conditions ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： McNamara KB,van Lieshout E,Simmons LW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Red Queen hypothesis predicts that sex should be more common in populations heavily infested with parasites, than in those without. This hypothesis was investigated in the aquatic snail Melanoides tuberculata, in which both sexual and parthenogenetic individuals exist in natural populations, and some populations a...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Ben-Ami F,Heller J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food shortage is an important selective factor shaping animal life-history trajectories. Yet, despite its role, many aspects of the interaction between parental and offspring food environments remain unclear. In this study, we measured developmental plasticity in response to food availability over two generations and ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Zizzari ZV,van Straalen NM,Ellers J

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes engage in cooperative behaviours by producing and secreting public goods, the benefits of which are shared among cells, and are therefore susceptible to exploitation by nonproducing cheats. In nature, bacteria are not typically colonizing sterile, rich environments in contrast to laboratory experiments, which...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Ghoul M,West SA,McCorkell FA,Lee ZB,Bruce JB,Griffin AS

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cetaceans possess brains that rank among the largest to have ever evolved, either in terms of absolute mass or relative to body size. Cetaceans have evolved these huge brains under relatively unique environmental conditions, making them a fascinating case study to investigate the constraints and selection pressures th...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Muller AS,Montgomery SH

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary theory predicts that divergent selection pressures across elevational gradients could cause adaptive divergence and reproductive isolation in the process of ecological speciation. Although there is substantial evidence for adaptive divergence across elevation, there is less evidence that this restricts ge...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Funk WC,Murphy MA,Hoke KL,Muths E,Amburgey SM,Lemmon EM,Lemmon AR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00