A quantitative trait locus for recognition of foreign eggs in the host of a brood parasite.

abstract：:Molecular species delimitation is increasingly being used to discover and illuminate species level diversity, and a number of methods have been developed. Here, we compare the ability of two molecular species delimitation methods to recover song-delimited species in the Cicadetta montana cryptic species complex throug...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wade EJ,Hertach T,Gogala M,Trilar T,Simon C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creationist literature claims that sufficient gaps in morphological continuity exist to classify dinosaurs into several distinct baramins ('created kinds'). Here, I apply the baraminological method called taxon correlation to test for morphological continuity within and between dinosaurian taxa. The results show enoug...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Senter P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraspecific cooperation and interspecific mutualism often feature a marked asymmetry in the scope for exploitation. Cooperation may nevertheless persist despite one-sided opportunities for cheating, provided that the partner vulnerable to exploitation has sufficient control over the duration of interaction. The effe...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Johnstone RA,Bshary R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila melanogaster, mating radically transforms female physiology and behaviour. Post-mating responses include an increase in the oviposition rate, a reduction in female receptivity and an activation of the immune system. The fitness consequences of mating are similarly dramatic--females must mate once in orde...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Innocenti P,Morrow EH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition and conflict among individuals can favour exploitative strategies that undermine the common good. Theory suggests that this can lead to a tragedy of the commons and ultimately population extinction, a phenomenon known as evolutionary suicide. Here, I present a model of the evolutionary tragedy of the commo...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rankin DJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:Indirect measures of sexual selection have been criticized because they can overestimate the magnitude of selection. In particular, they do not account for the degree to which mating opportunities can be monopolized by individuals of the sex that compete for mates. We introduce a measure of mate monopolization (m) bas...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Dorken ME,Perry LE

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical size at which metamorphosis is initiated represents an important checkpoint in insect development. Here, we use experimental evolution in Drosophila melanogaster to test the long-standing hypothesis that larval malnutrition should favour a smaller critical size. We report that six fly populations subject to 1...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Vijendravarma RK,Narasimha S,Kawecki TJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization is likely to occur more often between closely related taxa that have had insufficient time to diverge to the point of reproductive incompatibility; hybridization between deeply divergent lineages is rare. In squamate reptiles, hybridization has been proposed as a possible explanation for the extensive pa...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Olave M,Avila LJ,Sites JW Jr,Morando M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why are sinistral snails so rare? Two main hypotheses are that selection acts against the establishment of new coiling morphs, because dextral and sinistral snails have trouble mating, or else a developmental constraint prevents the establishment of sinistrals. We therefore used an isolate of the snail Lymnaea stagnal...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Davison A,Barton NH,Clarke B

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms modify their physiological functions by acclimating to changes in their environment. Recent studies of thermal physiology have been influenced by verbal models that fail to consider the selective advantage of acclimation and thus make no predictions about variation in acclimation capacity. We used a qua...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Cooper BS,Czarnoleski M,Angilletta MJ Jr

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evolutionary conflict of interest exists between parents and their offspring over the partitioning of parental investment (PI) among siblings. When the direct fitness benefits to offspring of increased PI, outweigh the inclusive fitness costs from lost future sibling fitness, selection should favour the evolution o...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Long TA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Adaptation and Natural Selection, George C. Williams linked the distinction between group and individual adaptation with the distinction between group and individual selection. Williams' Principle, as we will call it, says that adaptation at a level requires selection at that level. This is a necessary but not a su...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Sober E,Wilson DS

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:The evolutionary history of aquatic invasion in birds would be incomplete without incorporation of extinct species. We show that aquatic affinities in fossil birds can be inferred by multivariate analysis of skeletal features and locomotion of 245 species of extant birds. Regularized discriminant analyses revealed tha...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hinić-Frlog S,Motani R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a challenge to measure sexual selection because both stochastic events (chance) and deterministic factors (selection) generate variation in individuals' reproductive success. Most researchers realize that random events ('noise') make it difficult to detect a relationship between a trait and mating success (i.e. ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Jennions MD,Kokko H,Klug H

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:The relative roles of natural and sexual selection in promoting evolutionary lineage divergence remains controversial and difficult to assess in natural systems. Local adaptation through natural selection is known to play a central role in promoting evolutionary divergence, yet secondary sexual traits can vary widely ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Friis G,Milá B

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that marker-based heterozygosity-fitness correlations may be driven by only one or a few markers, indicating local heterozygosity effects caused by linkage disequilibrium with functional genes. In this study, we investigated the relationship between microsatellite heterozygosity and a measure ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Fossøy F,Johnsen A,Lifjeld JT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary significance of widespread hypo-allometric scaling of genital traits in combination with rapid interspecific genital trait divergence has been of key interest to evolutionary biologists for many years and remains poorly understood. Here, we provide a detailed assessment of quantitative genital trait v...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Assis BA,Foellmer MW

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which genotypic variation at a priori identified candidate genes can explain variation in complex phenotypes is a major debate in evolutionary biology. Whereas some high-profile genes such as the MHC or MC1R clearly do account for variation in ecologically relevant characters, many complex phenotypes suc...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wenzel MA,Piertney SB

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of toxin accumulation in pufferfishes has been long-standing problem in toxicology and evolutionary biology. Pufferfish saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin-binding protein (PSTBP) is involved in the transport and accumulation of tetrodotoxin and is one of the most intriguing proteins r...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hashiguchi Y,Lee JM,Shiraishi M,Komatsu S,Miki S,Shimasaki Y,Mochioka N,Kusakabe T,Oshima Y

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A species' range can be limited when there is no genetic variation for a trait that allows for adaptation to more extreme environments. We study how range expansion occurs by the establishment of a new mutation that affects a quantitative trait in a spatially continuous population. The optimal phenotype for the trait ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Behrman KD,Kirkpatrick M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how inbreeding alters selection on ecologically relevant traits. Inbreeding could affect selection by changing the distribution of traits and/or fitness, or by changing the causal effect of traits on fitness. Here, I test whether selection on egg size varies with the degree of inbreeding in the s...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Fox CW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual selection theory predicts that paternal quality should drive female investment in progeny. We tested whether polyandrous female side-blotched lizards, Uta stansburiana, would adjust within-clutch progeny investment according to sire phenotypes. In two different years, polyandrous females selectively used sperm ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Calsbeek R,Sinervo B

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large genetic variations in starvation tolerance in animals indicate that there are multiple strategies to cope with low-nutrient conditions. Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) typically respond to starvation by suppressing sleep and enhancing locomotor activity presumably to search for food. However, we hypothesiz...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Miura M,Takahashi A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local adaptation is commonly observed in nature: organisms perform well in their natal environment, but poorly outside it. Correlations between traits and latitude, or latitudinal clines, are among the most common pieces of evidence for local adaptation, but identifying the traits under selection and the selective age...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Muir CD,Angert AL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of temperature and wing morphology on the quantitative genetic variances and covariances of five size-related traits in the sand cricket, Gryllus firmus. Micropterous and macropterous crickets were reared in the laboratory at 24, 28 and 32 degrees C. Quantitative genetic parameters were esti...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bégin M,Roff DA,Debat V

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied genetic differentiation between two social forms (M-type: single queen, independent nest founding; P-type: multiple queens, dependent nest founding, building of colonial networks) of the ant Formica truncorum in a locality where the social types characterize two sympatric populations. The genetic results in...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Gyllenstrand N,Seppä P,Pamilo P

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00