Conspicuousness is correlated with toxicity in marine opisthobranchs.

abstract：:Current avian migration patterns in temperate regions have been developed during the glacial retreat and subsequent colonization of the ice-free areas during the Holocene. This process resulted in a geographic gradient of greater seasonality as latitude increased that favoured migration-related morphological and physi...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： de la Hera I,Hernández-Téllez I,Pérez-Rigueiro J,Pérez-Tris J,Rojo FJ,Tellería JL

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hermaphroditic plants, theory for mating system evolution predicts that populations will evolve to either complete autonomous selfing (AS) or complete outcrossing, depending on the balance between automatic selection favouring self-fertilization and costs resulting from inbreeding depression (ID). Theory also predi...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Brys R,Jacquemyn H

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:We investigated the relationship between host defense and specialization by parasites in comparative analyses of bird fleas and T-cell mediated immune response of their avian hosts, showing that fleas with few main host species exploited hosts with weak or strong immune defenses, whereas flea species that parasitized ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Møller AP,Christe P,Garamszegi LZ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cetaceans possess brains that rank among the largest to have ever evolved, either in terms of absolute mass or relative to body size. Cetaceans have evolved these huge brains under relatively unique environmental conditions, making them a fascinating case study to investigate the constraints and selection pressures th...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Muller AS,Montgomery SH

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use an individual-based simulation model to investigate factors influencing progress toward ecological speciation. We find that environmental differences can quickly lead to the evolution of substantial reproductive barriers between a population colonizing a new environment and the ancestral population in the old e...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Thibert-Plante X,Hendry AP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually selected traits that are costly are predicted to be more condition dependent than nonsexually selected traits. Assuming resource limitation, increased allocation to a sexually selected trait may also come at a cost to other fitness components. To test these predictions, we varied adult food ration to manipula...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Punzalan D,Cooray M,Helen Rodd F,Rowe L

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The achaete-scute complex (AS-C) has been a useful paradigm for the study of pattern formation and its evolution. achaete-scute genes have duplicated and evolved distinct expression patterns during the evolution of cyclorraphous Diptera. Are the expression patterns in different species driven by conserved regulatory e...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Negre B,Simpson P

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:We investigated the effect of temperature and wing morphology on the quantitative genetic variances and covariances of five size-related traits in the sand cricket, Gryllus firmus. Micropterous and macropterous crickets were reared in the laboratory at 24, 28 and 32 degrees C. Quantitative genetic parameters were esti...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bégin M,Roff DA,Debat V

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaternary environmental changes substantially impacted the landscape and promoted rapid evolutionary changes in many species; however, analyses of adaptive phenotypic variation in plants have usually neglected the underlying historical context. Here, we associate phylogeography and phenotypic evolution by analysing t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Maubecin CC,Cosacov A,Sérsic AN,Fornoni J,Benitez-Vieyra S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical studies of sexual selection typically focus on one of the two mechanisms of sexual selection without integrating these into a description of total sexual selection, or study total sexual selection without quantifying the contributions of all of the mechanisms of sexual selection. However, this can provide an...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hunt J,Breuker CJ,Sadowski JA,Moore AJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth trajectories often impact individual fitness. They are continuous by nature and so are amenable to analysis using a function-valued (FV) trait framework to reveal their underlying genetic architecture. Previous studies have found high levels of standing additive genetic (co)variance for growth trajectories desp...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Irwin KK,Carter PA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical models predict that parasite relatedness affects the outcome of competition between parasites, and the evolution of parasite virulence. We examined whether parasite relatedness affects competition between parasitic plants (Cuscuta europaea) that share common host plants (Urtica dioica). We infected hosts w...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Puustinen S,Koskela T,Mutikainen P

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：:Stressful situations during development can shape the phenotype for life by provoking a trade-off between development and survival. Stress hormones, mainly glucocorticoids, play an important orchestrating role in this trade-off. Hence, how stress sensitive an animal is critically determines the phenotype and ultimatel...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Almasi B,Roulin A,Korner-Nievergelt F,Jenni-Eiermann S,Jenni L

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body size is often constrained from evolving. Although artificial selection on body size in insects frequently results in a sizable response, these responses usually bear fitness costs. Further, these experiments tend to select only on size at one landmark age, rather than selecting for patterns of growth over the who...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Irwin KK,Carter PA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic comparative methods are extremely commonly used in evolutionary biology. In this paper, I highlight some of the problems that are frequently encountered in comparative analyses and review how they can be fixed. In broad terms, the problems boil down to a lack of appreciation of the underlying assumptions ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Freckleton RP

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive evolution often involves beneficial mutations at more than one locus. In this case, the trajectory and rate of adaptation is determined by the underlying fitness landscape, that is, the fitness values and mutational connectivity of all genotypes under consideration. Drug resistance, especially resistance to m...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Engelstädter J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological speciation is facilitated when divergent adaptation has direct effects on selective mating. Divergent sensory adaptation could generate such direct effects, by mediating both ecological performance and mate selection. In aquatic environments, light attenuation creates distinct photic environments, generatin...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wright DS,van Eijk R,Schuart L,Seehausen O,Groothuis TGG,Maan ME

更新日期：2019-12-10 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：:Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was originally thought to prevent any response to selection on male phenotypic variation attributable to mtDNA, resulting in a male-biased mtDNA mutation load ("mother's curse"). However, the theory underpinning this claim implicitly assumes that a male's mtDNA has no ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Keaney TA,Wong HWS,Dowling DK,Jones TM,Holman L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three different isolated populations of the slave-making ant Rossomyrmex minuchae, sympatric with its obligate host Proformica longiseta, are known from the high mountains of southern Spain. To test the prediction that the slave-maker and its host represent a coevolutionary geographical mosaic, we studied the variatio...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Ruano F,Devers S,Sanllorente O,Errard C,Tinaut A,Lenoir A

更新日期：2011-05-01 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 reproductive mechanism, that is whether an organism outcrosses, selfs or asexually reproduces, has a substantial impact on the amount and pattern of genetic variation. In this study, we estimate genetic variation and genetic load for a predominately asexual population of Mimulus guttatus, and then compare our resu...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Marriage TN,Kelly JK

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual signalling is predicted to shape the evolution of sex-specific ornamentation, and establishing the costs and benefits of ornamentation and the information that ornamentation provides to receivers is necessary to evaluating this adaptive function. Here, we assessed the adaptive function of a common colour orname...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Moore MP,Martin RA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature changes in the environment, which realistically include environmental fluctuations, can create both plastic and evolutionary responses of traits. Sexes might differ in either or both of these responses for homologous traits, which in turn has consequences for sexual dimorphism and its evolution. Here, we i...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hallsson LR,Björklund M

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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：:Genetic architecture fundamentally affects the way that traits evolve. However, the mapping of genotype to phenotype includes complex interactions with the environment or even the sex of an organism that can modulate the expressed phenotype. Line-cross analysis is a powerful quantitative genetics method to infer genet...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Armstrong A,Anderson NW,Blackmon H

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00