Is the weighted z-test the best method for combining probabilities from independent tests?

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：:Spermatozoa are the most diverse of all animal cells. Variation in size alone is enormous and yet there are still no clear evolutionary explanations that can account for such diversity. The basic genetics of sperm form is also poorly understood, although sperm size is known to have a strong genetic component. Here, us...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Morrow EH,Leijon A,Meerupati A

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:Ocelli are serially repeated colour patterns on the wings of many butterflies. Eyespots are elaborate ocelli that function in predator avoidance and deterrence as well as in mate choice. A phylogenetic approach was used to study ocelli and eyespot evolution in Vanessa butterflies, a genus exhibiting diverse phenotypes...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Abbasi R,Marcus JM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to examine genetic variation across entire genomes has enabled many studies searching for the genetic basis of local adaptation. These studies have identified numerous loci as candidates for differential local selection; however, relatively few have examined the overlap among candidate loci identified from...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Zueva KJ,Lumme J,Veselov AE,Primmer CR,Pritchard VL

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual isolation may arise when male mating traits and female preferences differ between species. Such divergence in mating traits is likely to occur when the strength or targets of sexual selection differ. Therefore, by comparing the traits under sexual selection in closely related species and the nature of preferenc...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Boughman JW

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some female pollinating fig wasps (foundresses) re-emerge from figs after oviposition/pollination. We investigated why this occurs in the mutualism between the gynodioecious Ficus montana and Liporrhopalum tentacularis. Re-emergence increased with foundress density in figs and some foundresses oviposited in two male f...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Moore JC,Dunn AM,Compton SG,Hatcher MJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Switch-induced developmental plasticity, such as the diapause decision in insects, is a major form of adaptation to variable environments. As individuals that follow alternative developmental pathways will experience different selective environments the diapause decision may evolve to a cascade switch that induces add...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Gotthard K,Berger D

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of symbioses along the continuum between parasitism and mutualism can be influenced by the oxidative homeostasis, that is the balance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antioxidant molecules. Indeed, ROS can contribute to the host immune defence to regulate symbiont populations, but are also toxic...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Monnin D,Kremer N,Berny C,Henri H,Dumet A,Voituron Y,Desouhant E,Vavre F

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed-genotype infections have attracted considerable attention as drivers of pathogen evolution. However, experimental approaches often overlook essential features of natural host-parasite interactions, such as host heterogeneity, or the effects of between-host selection during transmission. Here, following inoculati...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Ulrich Y,Sadd BM,Schmid-Hempel P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual selection drives fundamental evolutionary processes such as trait elaboration and speciation. Despite this importance, there are surprisingly few examples of genes unequivocally responsible for variation in sexually selected phenotypes. This lack of information inhibits our ability to predict phenotypic change ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wilkinson GS,Breden F,Mank JE,Ritchie MG,Higginson AD,Radwan J,Jaquiery J,Salzburger W,Arriero E,Barribeau SM,Phillips PC,Renn SC,Rowe L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing processes of geographic expansion in contact zones is a crucial step towards an accurate prediction of the evolution of species genetic diversity. The geographic distribution of cytonuclear discordance often reflects genetic introgression patterns across a species geographic range. Antirrhinum majus pseudoma...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Khimoun A,Burrus M,Andalo C,Liu ZL,Vicédo-Cazettes C,Thébaud C,Pujol B

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of natural selection is expected to reduce the effective population size of a nonrecombining chromosome, and this is thought to be the chief factor leading to genetic degeneration of Y-chromosomes, which cease recombining during their evolution from ordinary chromosomes. Low effective population size of Y c...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Laporte V,Filatov DA,Kamau E,Charlesworth D

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:Recent evidence suggests that marker-based heterozygosity-fitness correlations may be driven by only one or a few markers, indicating local heterozygosity effects caused by linkage disequilibrium with functional genes. In this study, we investigated the relationship between microsatellite heterozygosity and a measure ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Fossøy F,Johnsen A,Lifjeld JT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity relies on the presence of cues that enable organisms to adjust their phenotype to match local conditions. Although mostly studied with respect to nonsocial cues, it is also possible that parents transmit information about the environment to their offspring. Such 'anticip...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Uller T,Nakagawa S,English S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and phenotypic mosaics, in which various phenotypes and different genomic regions show discordant patterns of species or population divergence, offer unique opportunities to study the role of ancestral and introgressed genetic variation in phenotypic evolution. Here, we investigated the evolution of discordant...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Schweizer M,Warmuth V,Alaei Kakhki N,Aliabadian M,Förschler M,Shirihai H,Suh A,Burri R

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Polymorphic inversions are ubiquitous across the animal kingdom and are frequently associated with clines in inversion frequencies across environmental gradients. Such clines are thought to result from selection favouring local adaptation; however, empirical tests are scarce. The seaweed fly Coelopa frigida has an α/β...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wellenreuther M,Rosenquist H,Jaksons P,Larson KW

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimetic systems allow us to address the question of whether the same genes control similar phenotypes in different species. Although widespread parallels have been found for major effect loci, much less is known about genes that control quantitative trait variation. In this study, we identify and compare the loci that...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bainbridge HE,Brien MN,Morochz C,Salazar PA,Rastas P,Nadeau NJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Squamate embryos require weeks of high temperature to complete development, with the result that cool climatic areas are dominated by viviparous taxa (in which gravid females can sun-bask to keep embryos warm) rather than oviparous taxa (which rely on warm soil to incubate their eggs). How, then, can some oviparous ta...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Shine R,Wapstra E,Olsson M

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of toxin accumulation in pufferfishes has been long-standing problem in toxicology and evolutionary biology. Pufferfish saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin-binding protein (PSTBP) is involved in the transport and accumulation of tetrodotoxin and is one of the most intriguing proteins r...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hashiguchi Y,Lee JM,Shiraishi M,Komatsu S,Miki S,Shimasaki Y,Mochioka N,Kusakabe T,Oshima Y

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Immune defence is hypothesized to be a trait that bears significant fitness costs as well as benefits in that mounting a defence depreciates the value of other life-history traits. Thus the cost of mounting an immune response could affect the evolution of both the immune system and correlated life history traits. In t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rantala MJ,Roff DA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To resolve a panselectionist paradox, the population geneticist Kimura invented a neutral theory, where each gene is equally likely to enter the next generation whatever its allelic type. To learn what could be explained without invoking Darwinian adaptive divergence, Hubbell devised a similar neutral theory for fores...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Leigh EG Jr

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-associated differentiation (HAD) is considered a step towards ecological speciation and an important mechanism promoting diversification in phytophagous insects. Although the number of documented cases of HAD is increasing, these still represent only a small fraction of species and feeding guilds among phytophago...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Dorchin N,Scott ER,Clarkin CE,Luongo MP,Jordan S,Abrahamson WG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypes are the target of selection and affect the ability of organisms to persist in variable environments. Phenotypes can be influenced directly by genes and/or by phenotypic plasticity. The amphibian-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has a global distribution, unusually broad host range, and hig...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Muletz-Wolz CR,Barnett SE,DiRenzo GV,Zamudio KR,Toledo LF,James TY,Lips KR

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory predicts that the evolution of phenotypic plasticity depends upon cues that indicate environmental change. Predators typically induce plastic responses in prey. However, variation among populations of predators alters the frequency of predation and, possibly, the evolution of plasticity. We compared responses t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Walsh MR,Post DM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantification of repeatability has enabled behavioural and evolutionary ecologists to assess the heritable potential of traits. For behavioural traits that vary across life, age-related variation should be accounted for to prevent biasing the microevolutionary estimate of interest. Moreover, to gain a mechanistic...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Delaney DM,Hoekstra LA,Janzen FJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00