Reproductive barriers between two sympatric beetle species specialized on different host plants.

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：:Many palaeontological studies have investigated the evolution of entire body plans, generally relying on discrete character-taxon matrices. In contrast, macroevolutionary studies performed by neontologists have mostly focused on morphometric traits. Although these data types are very different, some studies have sugge...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Mongiardino Koch N,Ceccarelli FS,Ojanguren-Affilastro AA,Ramírez MJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When two species come into contact and interbreed, the production of unfit hybrids can limit or prevent gene flow between the populations, thus maintaining each species' separate identity. The genetic basis of this hybrid dysfunction has recently begun to be elucidated, particularly for hybrid sterility and inviabilit...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Dickman CT,Moehring AJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The length of the favourable season determines voltinism in insect populations. In some insects, there is variation in fecundity and timing of reproduction among females. If the length of the favourable season does not allow all offspring to develop into adults without diapause, the benefits of high early fecundity ma...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Välimäki P,Kivelä SM,Jääskeläinen L,Kaitala A,Kaitala V,Oksanen J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of an oxyphobic index (OI) based on the propensity of amino acids to enter more frequently the proteins of anaerobes makes it possible to make inferences on the environment in which the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) lived. The reconstruction of the ancestral sequences of proteins using a method based o...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Di Giulio M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how species interactions influence their distribution and evolution is a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. Theory suggests that asymmetric reproductive interference, in which one species induces higher reproductive costs on another species, may be more important in delimiting species boundari...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Yassin A,David JR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wing dimorphic sand cricket, Gryllus firmus, there is a pronounced trade-off between flight capability and fecundity. This trade-off is found both between morphs and within the macropterous morph, in which fecundity is negatively correlated with the mass of the principle flight muscles, the dorso-longitudinal m...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Roff DA,Gélinas MB

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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 [PSI(+)] prion in yeast has been shown to improve short-term growth in some environments, but its effects on rates of adaptation have not been assessed before now. We adapted three yeast genotypes to three novel environments in the presence and the absence of the prion. There were significant differences in adapta...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Joseph SB,Kirkpatrick M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although adaptive divergence along environmental gradients has repeatedly been demonstrated, the role of post-glacial colonization routes in determining phenotypic variation along gradients has received little attention. Here, we used a hierarchical QST -FST approach to separate the roles of adaptive and neutral proce...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Luquet E,Rödin Mörch P,Cortázar-Chinarro M,Meyer-Lucht Y,Höglund J,Laurila A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotype-by-genotype interactions demonstrate the existence of variation upon which selection acts in host-parasite systems at respective resistance and infection loci. These interactions can potentially be modified by environmental factors, which would entail that different genotypes are selected under different envi...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Cayetano L,Vorburger C

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive parasites such as Wolbachia can spread through uninfected host populations by increasing the relative fitness of the infected maternal lineage. However, empirical estimates of how fast this process occurs are limited. Here we use nucleotide sequences of male-killing Wolbachia bacteria and co-inherited mit...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Duplouy A,Hurst GD,O'Neill SL,Charlat S

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Pathogens are thought to exert strong selection on their hosts leading to increased host resistance. Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki (Bkt) is a ubiquitous entomopathogen that has become the mainstay of nonchemical control of Lepidopteran pests and thus, the potential exists for the evolution of resistance in targeted ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Janmaat AF,Myers JH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work [Ecoscience (2000) vol. 7, 395-397] suggests that the burying beetle Nicrophorus pustulatus may have undergone a remarkable host shift, exploiting snake eggs rather than carrion as resources for breeding. We conducted behavioural and physiological experiments to examine the hypothesis of a host shift and t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Smith G,Trumbo ST,Sikes DS,Scott MP,Smith RL

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental manipulations have consistently demonstrated a cost of reproduction in the capital-breeding seed beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus, as females deprived of seeds or mates lay fewer eggs and thereby increase their longevity. Yet fecundity and longevity tend to be positively correlated within populations, pe...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Messina FJ,Fry JD

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental instability (DI) is the sensitivity of a developing trait to random noise and can be measured by degrees of directionally random asymmetry [fluctuating asymmetry (FA)]. FA has been shown to increase with loss of genetic variation and inbreeding as measures of genetic stress, but associations vary among s...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Van Dongen S,Lens L,Pape E,Volckaert FA,Raeymaekers JA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viviparity, the bearing of live young, has evolved well over 100 times among squamate reptiles. This reproductive strategy is hypothesized to allow maternal control of the foetus' thermal environment and thereby to increase the fitness of the parents and offspring. Two hypotheses have been posited to explain this phen...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Watson CM,Makowsky R,Bagley JC

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:A theoretical debate about whether parasitoids should be time or egg limited now recognizes both as feasible, and interest has turned to determining the circumstances under which each might arise in the field, and their implications for parasitoid behaviour and evolution. Egg loads of parasitoids sampled from the fiel...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Phillips CB,Kean JM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senescence is the age-related deterioration of the phenotype, explained by accumulation of mutations, antagonistic pleiotropy, free radicals or other mechanisms. I investigated patterns of actuarial senescence in a sample of 169 species of birds in relation to latitude and migration, by analysing longevity records adj...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Møller AP

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the evolution of multiple mating by females (polyandry) is an important question in behavioural ecology. Most leading explanations for polyandry by social insect queens are based upon a postulated fitness benefit from increased intracolonial genetic diversity, which also arises when colonies are headed b...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hughes WO,Ratnieks FL,Oldroyd BP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive correlations between heterozygosity and fitness traits are frequently observed, and it has been hypothesized, but rarely tested experimentally, that parasites play a key role in mediating the heterozygosity-fitness association. We evaluated this hypothesis in a wild great tit (Parus major) population by testi...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Voegeli B,Saladin V,Wegmann M,Richner H

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:Temperature variation is one of the primary challenges facing ectotherms, and the ability to tolerate a range of thermal environments is critical for setting current and future species distributions. Low temperature is particularly challenging for ectotherms because winter conditions have strong latitudinal and tempor...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Teets NM,Hahn DA

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Any population whose members are subject to extrinsic mortality should exhibit an increase in mortality with age. Nevertheless, the prevailing opinion is that populations of adult damselflies and dragonflies do not exhibit such senescence. Here, we challenge this contention by fitting a range of demographic models to ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Sherratt TN,Hassall C,Laird RA,Thompson DJ,Cordero-Rivera A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome scans have made it possible to find outlier markers thought to have been influenced by divergent selection in almost any wild population. However, the lack of genomic information in nonmodel species often makes it difficult to associate these markers with certain genes or chromosome regions. Furthermore, the ex...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Lundberg M,Akesson S,Bensch S

更新日期：2011-06-01 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