The spread of apomixis and its effect on resident genetic variation.

abstract：:Somatic cellular differentiation plays a critical role in the transition from unicellular to multicellular life, but the evolution of its genetic basis remains poorly understood. By definition, somatic cells do not reproduce to pass on genes and so constitute an extreme form of altruistic behaviour. The volvocine gree...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Grochau-Wright ZI,Hanschen ER,Ferris PJ,Hamaji T,Nozaki H,Olson BJSC,Michod RE

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I examined the intrinsic postzygotic incompatibilities between two pupfishes, Cyprinodon elegans and Cyprinodon variegatus. Laboratory hybridization experiments revealed evidence of strong postzygotic isolation. Male hybrids have very low fertility, and the survival of backcrosses into C. elegans was substantially red...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Tech C

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:Feeding specializations such as herbivory are an often cited example of convergent and adaptive evolution. However, some groups such as lizards appear constrained in the evolution of morphological specializations associated with specialized diets. Here we examine whether the inclusion of plant matter into the diet of ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Herrel A,Vanhooydonck B,Van Damme R

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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：:Habitats are spatially and temporally variable, and organisms must be able to track these changes. One potential mechanism for this is dispersal by flight. Therefore, we would expect flying animals to show adaptations in wing shape related to habitat variation. In this work, we explored variation in wing shape in rela...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Outomuro D,Dijkstra KD,Johansson F

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on ecological and metabolic arguments, some authors predict that adaptation to novel, harsh environments should involve alleles showing negative (diminishing return) epistasis and/or that it should be mediated in part by evolution of maternal effects. Although the first prediction has been supported in microbes,...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Vijendravarma RK,Kawecki TJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a crossing experiment to investigate post-zygotic barriers that might limit introgression between a pair of closely-related, gynodioecious plant species--the widespread weed Silene vulgaris and the local Swedish endemic S. uniflora ssp. petraea. The study not only considered the effects of hybridization on con...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Andersson S,Månsby E,Prentice HC

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:In mammalian evolutionary history, Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) achieved astonishing success by adapting to an aquatic environment. One unique characteristic of cetaceans, contributing to this adaptive success, is efficient lipid utilization. Here, we report a comparative genetic analysis of five aquatic a...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Endo Y,Kamei KI,Inoue-Murayama M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Which conditions favour the evolution of hermaphroditism or separate sexes? One classical hypothesis states that an organism's mode of locomotion (if any) when searching for a mate should influence breeding system evolution. We used published phylogenies to reconstruct evolutionary changes in adult mate-search efficie...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Eppley SM,Jesson LK

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the correlations between offspring sex ratio, UV coloration and overwinter survival in a population of blue tits, breeding in Gotland, Sweden, over three consecutive breeding seasons. In 2 of 3 years, we found that females paired to males with relatively brighter UV-coloration produced a greater proportion ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Griffith SC,Ornborg J,Russell AF,Andersson S,Sheldon BC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The social niche specialization hypothesis predicts that group-living animals should specialize in particular social roles to avoid social conflict, resulting in alternative life-history strategies for different roles. Social niche specialization, coupled with role-specific life-history trade-offs, should thus generat...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Carter AJ,English S,Clutton-Brock TH

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent article, Nowak et al. claim that the mathematical basis of inclusive fitness theory does not stand to scrunity and to have found an alternative explanation for eusociality. We show that these claims are based on false premises, many of which have been exposed more than 25 years ago, such as misrepresentati...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rousset F,Lion S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that insular terrestrial biodiversity progresses with island age because colonization and diversification proceed over time. Here, we assessed whether this principle extends to oceanic island streams. We examined rangewide mtDNA sequence variation in four stream-dwelling species across the Hawaii...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Alda F,Gagne RB,Walter RP,Hogan JD,Moody KN,Zink F,McIntyre PB,Gilliam JF,Blum MJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:The effects of inbreeding on sperm quantity and quality are among the most dramatic examples of inbreeding depression. The extent to which inbreeding depression results in decreased fertilization success of a male's sperm, however, remains largely unknown. This task is made more difficult by the fact that other factor...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Zajitschek SR,Lindholm AK,Evans JP,Brooks RC

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:Directional selection for plant traits associated with resistance to herbivory tends to eliminate genetic variation in such traits. On the other hand, balancing selection arising from trade-offs between resistance and growth or spatially variable selection acts against the elimination of genetic variation. We explore ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Jormalainen V,Honkanen T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity in animal immune systems is usually beneficial. In hybrid recombinants, this is less clear, as the immune system could also be impacted by genetic conflicts. In the European house mouse hybrid zone, the long-standing impression that hybrid mice are more highly parasitized and less fit than parentals ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Balard A,Jarquín-Díaz VH,Jost J,Martincová I,Ďureje Ľ,Piálek J,Macholán M,Goüy de Bellocq J,Baird SJE,Heitlinger E

更新日期：2019-12-13 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：:Peacocks are a classic example of sexual selection, where females preferentially mate with males who have longer, more elaborate trains. One of the central hypotheses of sexual selection theory is that large or elaborate male 'ornaments' may signal high genetic quality (good genes). Good genes are thought to be those ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hale ML,Verduijn MH,Møller AP,Wolff K,Petrie M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As females and males have different roles in reproduction, they are expected to require different nutrients for the expression of reproductive traits. However, due to their shared genome, both sexes may be constrained in the regulation of nutrient intake that maximizes sex-specific fitness. Here, we used the Geometric...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Ng SH,Simpson SJ,Simmons LW

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many hypotheses explaining the evolution and maintenance of sexual cannibalism incorporate the nutritional aspect of the consumption of males. Most studies have focused on a fecundity advantage through consumption of a male; however, recent studies have raised the intriguing possibility that consumption of a male may ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Deventer SA,Herberstein ME,Mayntz D,O'Hanlon JC,Schneider JM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Island races of passerine birds display repeated evolution towards larger body size compared with their continental ancestors. The Capricorn silvereye (Zosterops lateralis chlorocephalus) has become up to six phenotypic standard deviations bigger in several morphological measures since colonization of an island approx...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Frentiu FD,Clegg SM,Blows MW,Owens IP

更新日期：2007-03-01 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

abstract：:We study the form of the clines in a female mating preference and male display trait using simulations of a hybrid zone. Allopatric populations of two species are connected by demes in a stepping stone arrangement. Results show that reproductive character displacement (a pattern of increased prezygotic isolation in sy...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Lemmon AR,Smadja C,Kirkpatrick M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innovative evolutionary developments are often related to gene or genome duplications. The crop fungi of attine fungus-growing ants are suspected to have enhanced genetic variation reminiscent of polyploidy, but this has never been quantified with cytological data and genetic markers. We estimated the number of nuclei...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kooij PW,Aanen DK,Schiøtt M,Boomsma JJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 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