Rapid evolution towards heavy metal resistance by mountain birch around two subarctic copper-nickel smelters.

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：:Mutations that are beneficial in one environment can have different fitness effects in other environments. In the context of antibiotic resistance, the resulting genotype-by-environment interactions potentially make selection on resistance unpredictable in heterogeneous environments. Furthermore, resistant bacteria fr...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hall AR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian brood parasites reduce the reproductive output of their hosts and thereby select for defence mechanisms such as ejection of parasitic eggs. Such defence mechanisms simultaneously select for counter-defences in brood parasites, causing a coevolutionary arms race. Although coevolutionary models assume that defence...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Martín-Gálvez D,Soler JJ,Martínez JG,Krupa AP,Richard M,Soler M,Møller AP,Burke T

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traits of interest to evolutionary biologists often have complex genetic architectures, the nature of which can confound traditional experimental study at single levels of analysis. In the fire ant Solenopsis invicta, the presence of a Mendelian 'supergene' is both necessary and sufficient to induce a shift in a funda...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Trible W,Ross KG

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

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：:The persistence of sexual reproduction in the face of competition from asexual invaders is more likely if asexual lineages are produced infrequently or have low fitness. The generation rate and success of new asexual lineages will be influenced by the proximate mechanisms underlying transitions to asexuality. As such,...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Neiman M,Sharbel TF,Schwander T

更新日期：2014-07-01 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

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：: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：:We explored the evolution of recombination under antagonistic coevolution, concentrating on the equilibrium frequencies of modifier alleles causing recombination in initially nonrecombining populations. We found that the equilibrium level of recombination in the host depended not only on parasite virulence, but also o...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Peters AD,Lively CM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere length is a biomarker of biological ageing and lifespan in various vertebrate taxa. Evidence is accumulating that telomeres shorten more rapidly when an individual is exposed to environmental stressors. Parasites are potent selective agents that can cause physiological stress directly or indirectly through th...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Tschirren B,Romero-Haro AÁ,Zahn S,Criscuolo F

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual selection can explain major micro- and macro-evolutionary patterns. Much of current theory predicts that the strength of sexual selection (i) is driven by the relative abundance of males and females prepared to mate (i.e. the operational sex ratio, OSR) and (ii) can be generally estimated by calculating intra-s...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Klug H,Heuschele J,Jennions MD,Kokko H

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:When the availability of sperm limits female reproductive success, competition for sperm, may be an important broker of sexual selection. This is because sperm limitation can increase the variance in female reproductive success, resulting in strong selection on females to compete for limited fertilization opportunitie...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Marshall DJ,Evans JP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical studies on the evolution of dispersal in metacommunities are rare despite empirical evidence suggesting that interspecific interactions can modify dispersal behaviour of organisms. To understand the role of species interactions for dispersal evolution, we utilize an individual-based model of a metacommunit...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Chaianunporn T,Hovestadt T

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Density dependence in vital rates is a key feature affecting temporal fluctuations of natural populations. This has important implications for the rate of random genetic drift. Mating systems also greatly affect effective population sizes, but knowledge of how mating system and density regulation interact to affect ra...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Myhre AM,Engen S,SAEther BE

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adding new taxa to morphological phylogenetic analyses without substantially revising the set of included characters is a common practice, with drawbacks (undersampling of relevant characters) and potential benefits (character selection is not biased by preconceptions over the affinities of the 'retrofitted' taxon). R...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Lee MS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of flowering plants rely on animals as pollen vectors. Thus, plant mating systems and pollen dispersal are strongly influenced by pollinator behaviour. In Australian sexually deceptive orchids pollinated by male thynnine wasps, outcrossing and extensive pollen flow is predicted due to floral deception, wh...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Whitehead MR,Linde CC,Peakall R

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge on interspecific pre- and post-zygotic isolation mechanisms provides insights into speciation patterns. Using crosses (F(1) and backcrosses) of two closely related flea beetles species, Altica fragariae and A. viridicyanea, specialized on different hosts in sympatry, we measured: (a) the type of reproductive...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Xue HJ,Magalhães S,Li WZ,Yang XK

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological opportunities associated with transitions across the marine-freshwater interface are regarded as an important catalyst of diversification in a range of aquatic taxa. Here, we examined the role of these major habitat transitions and trophic diversification in a radiation of Australasian fishes using a ne...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Davis AM,Unmack PJ,Pusey BJ,Johnson JB,Pearson RG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-copulatory sexual selection, in the form sperm competition, has influenced the evolution of several male reproductive traits. However, theory predicts that sperm competition would lead to trade-offs between numbers and size of spermatozoa because increased costs per cell would result in a reduction of sperm numbe...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Tourmente M,Delbarco Trillo J,Roldan ER

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cooperative breeding vertebrates, indirect fitness benefits would be maximized by subordinates that accurately assess their relatedness to group offspring and preferentially help more closely related kin. In the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis), we found a positive relationship between subordinate-nes...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Richardson DS,Burke T,Komdeurs J

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary theory predicts that herbivorous insects should lay eggs on plants in a way that reflects the suitability of each plant species for larval development. Empirical studies, however, often fail to find any relationship between an adult insect's choice of host-plant and offspring fitness, and in such cases, i...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Cunningham JP

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:The avian haemosporidian parasite Haemoproteus majoris has been reported to infect a wide range of passerine birds throughout the Holarctic ecozone. Five cytochrome b (cyt b) lineages have been described as belonging to the morphological species H. majoris, and these form a tight phylogenetic cluster together with 13 ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Nilsson E,Taubert H,Hellgren O,Huang X,Palinauskas V,Markovets MY,Valkiūnas G,Bensch S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metamorphosis can disrupt the correlation structure between juvenile and adult traits, thus allowing relatively independent evolution in contrasting environments. We used a multiple experimental approach to investigate how diet quality and larval predation risk affected the rates of growth and development in painted f...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Nicieza AG,Alvarez D,Atienza EM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00