Size asymmetry in intraspecific competition and the density-dependence of inbreeding depression in a natural plant population: a case study in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae).

abstract：:Induced defences are a typical case of phenotypic plasticity, involving benefits for 'plastic' phenotypes under environments with variable degree of stress. Defence induction, in turn, could be energetically expensive incurring costs on growth and reproduction. In this study, we investigated the genetic variation and ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Castañeda LE,Figueroa CC,Nespolo RF

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most important defensive host traits against brood parasitism is the detection and ejection of parasitic eggs from their nests. Here, we explore the possible role of olfaction in this defensive behaviour. We performed egg-recognition tests in magpie Pica pica nests with model eggs resembling those of parasi...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Soler JJ,Pérez-Contreras T,De Neve L,Macías-Sánchez E,Møller AP,Soler M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent invasion by self-replicating socially parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, of colonies of the neighbouring African subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata represents an opportunity to study evolution of intraspecific parasitism in real time. As honeybee workers compete pheromonally for rep...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Dietemann V,Neumann P,Härtel S,Pirk CW,Crewe RM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different evolutionary interests between males and females can lead to the evolution of sexual dimorphism. However, intersex genetic correlations due to the shared genome can constrain the evolution of sexual dimorphism, resulting in intra-locus sexual conflict. One of the mechanisms resolving this conflict is sex lin...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kitano J,Kakioka R,Ishikawa A,Toyoda A,Kusakabe M

更新日期：2020-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Through simulation, Whitlock showed that when all the alternatives have the same effect size, the weighted z-test is superior to both unweighted z-test and Fisher's method when combining P-values from independent studies. In this paper, we show that under the same situation, the generalized Fisher method due to Lancas...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Chen Z

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Squamate embryos require weeks of high temperature to complete development, with the result that cool climatic areas are dominated by viviparous taxa (in which gravid females can sun-bask to keep embryos warm) rather than oviparous taxa (which rely on warm soil to incubate their eggs). How, then, can some oviparous ta...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Shine R,Wapstra E,Olsson M

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:We estimated broad-sense heritabilities (H(2)) of 13 female and seven male life-history traits of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) under semi-natural conditions in a large outdoor population cage. The analysis was based on full-sib families collected as young larvae in the field and reared under co...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Klemme I,Hanski I

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male fitness is dependent on sexual traits that influence mate acquisition (precopulatory sexual selection) and paternity (post-copulatory sexual selection), and although many studies have documented the form of selection in one or the other of these arenas, fewer have done it for both. Nonetheless, it appears that th...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Maraqa MS,Griffin R,Sharma MD,Wilson AJ,Hunt J,Hosken DJ,House CM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most ectotherms follow a pattern of size plasticity known as the temperature-size rule where individuals reared in cold environments are larger at maturation than those reared in warm environments. This pattern seems maladaptive because growth is slower in the cold so it takes longer to reach a large size. However, it...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Arendt J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of traits involved in resource exploitation is a central criterion for the adaptive character of radiations. Here, we test for differentiation in morphology, jaw mechanics and nutrition among species and sexes of Lake Matano's sympatric 'roundfin' sailfin silversides. The three incipient fish species diffe...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Pfaender J,Miesen FW,Hadiaty RK,Herder F

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable evidence for an adaptive role of inversions, but how their genetic content evolves and affects the subsequent evolution of chromosomal polymorphism remains controversial. Here, we track how life-history traits, chromosomal arrangements and 22 microsatellites, within and outside inversions, change...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Santos J,Pascual M,Fragata I,Simões P,Santos MA,Lima M,Marques A,Lopes-Cunha M,Kellen B,Balanyà J,Rose MR,Matos M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of how fast mating behaviour evolves in insects is rather poor due to a lack of comparative studies among insect groups for which phylogenetic relationships are known. Here, we present a detailed study of the mating behaviour of 27 species of Sepsidae (Diptera) for which a well-resolved and supported...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Puniamoorthy N,Ismail MR,Tan DS,Meier R

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the genetic basis of parallel phenotypic evolution provides insight into the process of adaptation and evolutionary constraint. White clover (Trifolium repens) has evolved climate-associated adaptive clines in cyanogenesis (the ability to produce hydrogen cyanide upon tissue damage) in several world region...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kooyers NJ,Olsen KM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization and gene introgression can occur frequently between closely related taxa, but appear to be rare phenomena among members of the species-rich West Indian radiation of Anolis lizards. We investigated the pattern and possible mechanism of introgression between two sister species from Puerto Rico, Anolis pulc...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Jezkova T,Leal M,Rodríguez-Robles JA

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The North Pacific Ocean has been of great significance to understanding biogeography and speciation in temperate faunas, including for two species of char (Salmonidae: Salvelinus) whose evolutionary relationship has been controversial. We examined the morphology and genetics (microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA) of A...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Taylor EB,Lowery E,Lilliestråle A,Elz A,Quinn TP

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the maintenance of a plumage polymorphism, variation in plumages among the same age and sex class within a population, in a population of Swainson's Hawks. We take advantage of 32 years of data to examine two prevalent hypotheses used to explain the persistence of morphs: apostatic selection and heterozygou...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Briggs CW,Collopy MW,Woodbridge B

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Meiosis in Saccharomyces yeast produces four haploid gametes that usually fuse with each other, an extreme form of self-fertilization among the products of a single meiosis known as automixis. The gametes signal to each other with sex pheromone. Better-quality gametes produce stronger signals and are preferred as mate...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Tazzyman SJ,Seymour RM,Pomiankowski A,Greig D

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how phenotypic plasticity evolves and in turn affects the course of evolution is a major challenge in modern biology. By definition, biological species are reproductively isolated, but many animals fail to distinguish between conspecifics and closely related heterospecifics. In some cases, phenotypic pla...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Drury JP,Anderson CN,Grether GF

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how animal personality (consistent between-individual behavioural differences) arises has become a central topic in behavioural sciences. This endeavour is complicated by the fact that not only the mean behaviour of individuals (behavioural type) but also the strength of their reaction to environmental c...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Herczeg G,Urszán TJ,Orf S,Nagy G,Kotrschal A,Kolm N

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brood parasitic common cuckoo Cuculus canorus consists of gentes, which typically parasitize only a single host species whose eggs they often mimic. Where multiple cuckoo gentes co-exist in sympatry, we may expect variable but generally poorer mimicry because of host switches or inter-gens gene flow via males if t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Antonov A,Stokke BG,Vikan JR,Fossøy F,Ranke PS,Røskaft E,Moksnes A,Møller AP,Shykoff JA

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:The aim of this article is to demonstrate possible recombination-associated evolutionary forces affecting the genomic distribution of processed pseudogenes. The relationship between recombination rate and the distribution of processed pseudogenes is analysed in the human genome. The results show that processed pseudog...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Liu G,Li H,Cai L

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resolution of taxonomic classifications for delphinid cetaceans has been problematic, especially for species in the genera Delphinus, Tursiops and Stenella. The frequent lack of correspondence between morphological and genetic differentiation in these species raises questions about the mechanisms responsible for t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Natoli A,Cañadas A,Peddemors VM,Aguilar A,Vaquero C,Fernández-Piqueras P,Hoelzel AR

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:It has been suggested that polyandry allows females to increase offspring genetic diversity and reduce the prevalence and susceptibility of their offspring to infectious diseases. We tested this hypothesis in wild-derived house mice (Mus musculus) by experimentally infecting the offspring from 15 single- and 15 multip...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Thonhauser KE,Raveh S,Thoß M,Penn DJ

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Ecological divergence can cause speciation if adaptive traits have pleiotropic effects on mate choice. In Heliconius butterflies, mimetic patterns play a role in mate detection between sister species, as well as signalling to predators. Here we show that male butterflies from four recently diverged parapatric populati...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Jiggins CD,Estrada C,Rodrigues A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical and empirical results demonstrate that the G-matrix, which summarizes additive genetic variances and covariances of quantitative traits, changes over time. Such evolution and fluctuation of the G-matrix could potentially have wide-ranging effects on phenotypic evolution. Nevertheless, no studies have yet a...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Jones AG,Bürger R,Arnold SJ,Hohenlohe PA,Uyeda JC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00