Alternative reproductive tactics and the propensity of hybridization.

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：:Despite growing evidence for nongenetic inheritance, the ecological conditions that favour the evolution of heritable parental or grandparental effects remain poorly understood. Here, we systematically explore the evolution of parental effects in a patch-structured population with locally changing environments. When s...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kuijper B,Johnstone RA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warning coloration is a widespread strategy to alert predators about prey unprofitability. The success of this strategy partly depends on predators being able to learn and recognize certain signals as indicators of toxicity, and theory predicts that this is easier if signals converge on similar colours. However, the d...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Arenas LM,Stevens M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms at northern latitudes have responded to climate warming by advancing their spring phenology. Birds are known to show earlier timing of spring migration and reproduction in response to warmer springs. However, species show heterogeneous phenological responses to climate warming, with those that have not ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Møller AP,Rubolini D,Saino N

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：:It is now widely appreciated that competition between kin inhibits the evolution of altruism. In standard population genetics models, it is difficult for indiscriminate altruism towards social partners to be favoured at all. The reason is that while limited dispersal increases the kinship of social partners it also in...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Gardner A,West SA

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Longevity is a major characteristic of animals that has long fascinated scientists. In this work, we present a comprehensive database of animal longevity records and related life-history traits entitled AnAge, which we compiled and manually curated from an extensive literature. AnAge started as a collection of longevi...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： de Magalhães JP,Costa J

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selfish genes that bias their own transmission during meiosis can spread rapidly in populations, even if they contribute negatively to the fitness of their host. Driving X chromosomes provide a clear example of this type of selfish propagation. These chromosomes have important evolutionary and ecological consequences,...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Keais GL,Hanson MA,Gowen BE,Perlman SJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main goals of molecular evolutionary biology is to determine the factors that influence the evolutionary rate of selectively neutral DNA, but much remains unknown, especially for plants. Key factors that could alter the mutation rate include environmental tolerances (because they reflect a plants vulnerabil...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Whittle CA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The late Pleistocene was a time of environmental change, culminating in an extinction event. Few fossil localities record a temporal series of carnivore fossil populations from this interesting interval as well as Rancho La Brea (RLB). We analysed mandibles of Smilodon fatalis from RLB using 2-D geometric morphometric...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Meachen JA,O'Keefe FR,Sadleir RW

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Although heritability estimates for traits potentially under natural selection are increasingly being reported, their estimation remains a challenge if we are to understand the patterns of adaptive phenotypic change in nature. Given the potentially important role of selection on the early life phenotype, and thereby o...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Páez DJ,Morrissey M,Bernatchez L,Dodson JJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitism has been proposed as a factor in host speciation, as an agent affecting coexistence of host species in species-rich communities and as a driver of post-speciation diversification. Young adaptive radiations of closely related host species of varying ecological and genomic differentiation provide interesting ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Karvonen A,Wagner CE,Selz OM,Seehausen O

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation occurs by gene replacement (or transient balanced polymorphism). Replacement may be caused by selection (local or global) and/or genetic drift among alleles. In addition, historical events may blur the respective effects of selection and drift during the course of replacement. We address the relative import...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Labbe P,Lenormand T,Raymond M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) have a world-wide distribution, and show morphotypic variation among regions. Distinctions between coastal and pelagic populations have been documented; however, regional patterns of differentiation had not been previously investigated in a wider geographic context. We analysed...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Natoli A,Peddemors VM,Hoelzel AR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variability in the way organisms reproduce raises numerous, and still unsolved, questions in evolutionary biology. In this study, we emphasize that fungi deserve a much greater emphasis in efforts to address these questions because of their multiple advantages as model eukaryotes. A tremendous diversity of reproductiv...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Billiard S,López-Villavicencio M,Hood ME,Giraud T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of phylogenetic signal is assumed to be ubiquitous. However, for microorganisms, this may not be true given that they display high physiological flexibility and have fast regeneration. This may result in fundamentally different patterns of resemblance, that is, in variable strength of phylogenetic signal....

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Krause S,van Bodegom PM,Cornwell WK,Bodelier PL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several hundred species of haplochromine cichlid fish have evolved rapidly in Lake Victoria. Divergent sexual and ecological selection probably played an important role in this radiation, generating divergent mating preferences and preference-trait covariance. However, the segregation of hybrid inviability or infertil...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Van Der Sluijs I,Van Dooren TJ,Seehausen O,Van Alphen JJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence factor pertactin is expressed by the closely related pathogens Bordetella pertussis, Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica. Pertactin is an autotransporter involved in adherence of Bordetella species to the lung epithelium of mammalian hosts, and it is an important component of most curr...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Diavatopoulos DA,Hijnen M,Mooi FR

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:Reproductive barriers and divergence in species' mate recognition systems underlie major models of speciation. However, hybridization between divergent species is common, and classic mechanisms to explain permeable reproductive barriers rarely consider how an individual may attain reproductive success. Alternative mat...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Stewart KA,Hudson CM,Lougheed SC

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though the importance of selection for trait evolution is well established, we still lack a functional understanding of the mechanisms underlying phenotypic selection. Because animals necessarily use their sensory system to perceive phenotypic traits, the model of sensory bias assumes that sensory systems are the...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Renoult JP,Thomann M,Schaefer HM,Cheptou PO

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:The effects of competition on the genetic composition of natural populations are not well understood. We combined demography and molecular genetics to study how intraspecific competition affects microevolution in cohorts of volunteer plants of cassava (Manihot esculenta) originating from seeds in slash-and-burn fields...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Pujol B,McKey D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites are ubiquitous and have well-documented ecological consequences. In contrast, the extent to which parasites drive phenotypic evolution in hosts remains obscure. We use a recently developed statistical technique--selective source analysis--to analyse the strength of phenotypic selection acting on floral trait...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Nuismer SL,Ridenhour BJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:Certain types of asexual reproduction lead to loss of complementation, that is unmasking of recessive deleterious alleles. A theoretical measure of this loss is calculated for apomixis, automixis and endomitosis in the cases of diploidy and polyploidy. The effect of the consequent unmasking of deleterious recessive mu...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Archetti M

更新日期：2004-09-01 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