A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits.

abstract：:Reproduction entails costs, and disentangling the relative importance of each stage of the reproductive cycle may be important to assess the costs and benefits of different reproductive strategies. We studied the early costs of reproduction in oviparous and viviparous lizard females of the bimodal reproductive species...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bleu J,Heulin B,Haussy C,Meylan S,Massot M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many of the statistical techniques used in comparative biology were originally developed in quantitative genetics, subsequent development of comparative techniques has progressed in relative isolation. Consequently, many of the new and planned developments in comparative analysis already have well-tested solu...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hadfield JD,Nakagawa S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how environmental stress alters the consequences of hybridization is important, because the rate of hybridization and the likelihood of hybrid speciation both appear elevated in harsh, disturbed or marginal habitats. We assessed fitness, morphometrics and molecular genetic composition over 14 generations...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hwang AS,Pritchard VL,Edmands S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent model studies the evolution of cooperation on a network, and concludes with a result connecting the benefits and costs of interactions and the number of neighbours. Here, an inclusive fitness analysis is conducted of the only case solved analytically, of a cycle, and the identical result is obtained. This bri...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Grafen A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing patterns of observed current variation, and testing hypotheses concerning the potential drivers of this variation, is fundamental to understanding how morphology evolves. Phylogenetic history, size and ecology are all central components driving the evolution of morphological variation, but only recently...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Openshaw GH,Keogh JS

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：: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：:Adaptive speciation occurs when frequency-dependent ecological interactions generate conditions of disruptive selection to which lineage splitting is an adaptive response. Under such selective conditions, evolution of assortative mating mechanisms enables the break-up of the ancestral lineage into diverging and reprod...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Doebeli M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual conflict has been proposed as a potential selective agent in the evolution of a variety of traits. Here, we present a simple model that investigates the initial conditions under which sex-linked and sex-limited harming alleles can invade a population. In this paper, we expand previous threshold models to study ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Andrés JA,Morrow EH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex chromosomes are expected to evolve suppressed recombination, which leads to degeneration of the Y and heteromorphism between the X and Y. Some sex chromosomes remain homomorphic, however, and the factors that prevent degeneration of the Y in these cases are not well understood. The homomorphic sex chromosomes of t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Guerrero RF,Kirkpatrick M,Perrin N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One explanation for hybridization between species is the fitness benefits it occasionally confers to the hybridizing individuals. This explanation is possible in species that have evolved alternative male reproductive tactics: individuals with inferior tactics might be more prone to hybridization provided it increases...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Tynkkynen K,Raatikainen KJ,Häkkilä M,Haukilehto E,Kotiaho JS

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Co-inheritance in life-history traits may result in unpredictable evolutionary trajectories if not accounted for in life-history models. Iteroparity (the reproductive strategy of reproducing more than once) in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a fitness trait with substantial variation within and among populations. In ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Aykanat T,Ozerov M,Vähä JP,Orell P,Niemelä E,Erkinaro J,Primmer CR

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：:Phenotypic divergence in allopatry can facilitate speciation by reducing the likelihood that individuals of different lineages hybridize during secondary contact. However, few studies have established the causes of reproductive isolation in the crucial early stages of secondary contact. Here, we establish behavioural ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Heathcote RJ,While GM,MacGregor HE,Sciberras J,Leroy C,D'Ettorre P,Uller T

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:Laboratory studies on Drosophila have revealed that resistance to one environmental stress often correlates with resistance to other stresses. There is also evidence on genetic correlations between stress resistance, longevity and other fitness-related traits. The present work investigates these associations using art...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bubliy OA,Loeschcke V

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Females in species that produce broods of multiple offspring need to partition resources among simultaneously growing ova, embryos or neonates. In birds, the duration of growth of a single egg exceeds the ovulation interval, and when maternal resources are limited, a temporal overlap among several developing follicles...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Young RL,Badyaev AV

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Describing and quantifying animal personality is now an integral part of behavioural studies because individually distinctive behaviours have ecological and evolutionary consequences. Yet, to fully understand how personality traits may respond to selection, one must understand the underlying heritability and genetic c...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Petelle MB,Martin JG,Blumstein DT

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are heterokaryotes with an unusual genetic makeup. Substantial genetic variation occurs among nuclei within a single mycelium or isolate. AMF reproduce through spores that contain varying fractions of this heterogeneous population of nuclei. It is not clear whether this genetic varia...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Boon E,Zimmerman E,Lang BF,Hijri M

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：: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：:Recently, two squirrel species (Spermophilus spp.) were discovered to anoint their bodies with rattlesnake scent as a means of concealing their odour from these chemosensory predators. In this study, we tested multiple species with predator scents (rattlesnake and weasel) to determine the prevalence of scent applicati...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Clucas B,Ord TJ,Owings DH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00