Intra-isolate genome variation in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi persists in the transcriptome.

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：:Stingless bees (Meliponini) construct their own species-specific nest entrance. The size of this entrance is under conflicting selective pressures. Smaller entrances are easier to defend; however, a larger entrance accommodates heavier forager traffic. Using a comparative approach with 26 species of stingless bees, we...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Couvillon MJ,Wenseleers T,Imperatriz-Fonseca VL,Nogueira-Neto P,Ratnieks FLW

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:For 8 years I have been pursuing in print an ambitious and at times highly technical programme of work, the 'Formal Darwinism Project', whose essence is to underpin and formalize the fitness optimization ideas used by behavioural ecologists, using a new kind of argument linking the mathematics of motion and the mathem...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Grafen A

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Egg quality may mediate maternal allocation strategies according to progeny sex. In vertebrates, carotenoids have important physiological roles during embryonic and post-natal life, but the consequences of variation in yolk carotenoids for offspring phenotype in oviparous species are largely unknown. In yellow-legged ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Romano M,Caprioli M,Ambrosini R,Rubolini D,Fasola M,Saino N

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the 'pace-of-life' syndrome hypothesis, differences in resting metabolic rate (RMR) should be genetically associated with exploratory behaviour. A large number of studies reported significant heritability for both RMR and exploratory behaviour, but the genetic correlation between the two has yet to be doc...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Careau V,Thomas D,Pelletier F,Turki L,Landry F,Garant D,Réale D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory defines conditions under which sympatric speciation may occur, and several possible examples of the process in action have been identified. In most cases, organisms specialize onto habitats that fall into discrete categories, such as host species used by herbivores and parasites. Ecological specialization withi...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Van Buskirk J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic variation can arise from differences in the protein coding sequence and in the regulatory elements. However, little is known about the contribution of regulatory difference to the expression divergence, especially the cis and trans regulatory variation to the expression divergence in intraspecific populatio...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Huang YH,Hsieh DK,Sung HM

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Most ectotherms follow a pattern of size plasticity known as the temperature-size rule where individuals reared in cold environments are larger at maturation than those reared in warm environments. This pattern seems maladaptive because growth is slower in the cold so it takes longer to reach a large size. However, it...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Arendt J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent invasion by self-replicating socially parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, of colonies of the neighbouring African subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata represents an opportunity to study evolution of intraspecific parasitism in real time. As honeybee workers compete pheromonally for rep...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Dietemann V,Neumann P,Härtel S,Pirk CW,Crewe RM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seminal fluid proteins (SFPs) can trigger drastic changes in mating partners, mediating post-mating sexual selection and associated sexual conflict. Also, cross-species comparisons have demonstrated that SFPs evolve rapidly and hint that post-mating sexual selection drives their rapid evolution. In principle, this pat...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Nakadera Y,Thornton Smith A,Daupagne L,Coutellec MA,Koene JM,Ramm SA

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Estimates of genetic variation and selection allow for quantitative predictions of evolutionary change, at least in controlled laboratory experiments. Natural populations are, however, different in many ways, and natural selection on heritable traits does not always result in phenotypic change. To test whether we were...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Postma E,Visser J,Van Noordwijk AJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Red Queen hypothesis predicts that sex should be more common in populations heavily infested with parasites, than in those without. This hypothesis was investigated in the aquatic snail Melanoides tuberculata, in which both sexual and parthenogenetic individuals exist in natural populations, and some populations a...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Ben-Ami F,Heller J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually selected traits are limited by selection against those traits in other fitness components, such as survival. Thus, sexual selection favouring large size in males should be balanced by higher mortality of larger males. However, evidence from red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) indicates that large male...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kissner KJ,Weatherhead PJ,Francis CM

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：: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：:The temperature-size rule is a common pattern of phenotypic plasticity in which higher temperature during development results in a smaller adult body size (i.e. a thermal reaction norm with negative slope). Examples and exceptions to the rule are known in multiple groups of organisms, but rapid population differentiat...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kingsolver JG,Massie KR,Ragland GJ,Smith MH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraspecific cooperation and interspecific mutualism often feature a marked asymmetry in the scope for exploitation. Cooperation may nevertheless persist despite one-sided opportunities for cheating, provided that the partner vulnerable to exploitation has sufficient control over the duration of interaction. The effe...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Johnstone RA,Bshary R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal effects on progeny wing size and shape in a homozygous parthenogenetic strain of Drosophila mercatorum were investigated. The impact of external maternal factors (heat stress) and the impact of internal maternal factors (different maternal and grand maternal age) were studied. The offspring developed under id...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Andersen DH,Pertoldi C,Scali V,Loeschcke V

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Different evolutionary interests between males and females can lead to the evolution of sexual dimorphism. However, intersex genetic correlations due to the shared genome can constrain the evolution of sexual dimorphism, resulting in intra-locus sexual conflict. One of the mechanisms resolving this conflict is sex lin...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kitano J,Kakioka R,Ishikawa A,Toyoda A,Kusakabe M

更新日期：2020-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of ecological factors on natural hybridization is of widespread interest. Here, we asked whether climate niche influences hybridization between the two closely related plant species Myriophyllum sibiricum and M. spicatum. Eight microsatellite loci and two chloroplast fragments were used to investigate the o...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wu Z,Ding Z,Yu D,Xu X

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：: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：:Animals must allocate some proportion of their time to detecting predators. In birds and mammals, such anti-predator vigilance has been well studied, and we know that it may be influenced by a variety of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Despite hundreds of studies focusing on vigilance and suggestions that there are i...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Blumstein DT,Lea AJ,Olson LE,Martin JG

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：: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：: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