Mate choice among yeast gametes can purge deleterious mutations.

abstract：:Queen pheromones are among the most important chemical messages regulating insect societies yet they remain largely undiscovered, hindering research into interesting proximate and ultimate questions. Identifying queen pheromones in multiple species would give new insight into the selective pressures and evolutionary c...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Holman L,Lanfear R,d'Ettorre P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of endemic South American canid fauna has been traditionally linked with the rise of the Isthmus of Panama, suggesting that diversification of the dog fauna on this continent occurred very rapidly. Nevertheless, despite its obvious biogeographic appeal, the tempo of Canid evolution in South America has neve...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Perini FA,Russo CA,Schrago CG

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:One explanation for hybridization between species is the fitness benefits it occasionally confers to the hybridizing individuals. This explanation is possible in species that have evolved alternative male reproductive tactics: individuals with inferior tactics might be more prone to hybridization provided it increases...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Tynkkynen K,Raatikainen KJ,Häkkilä M,Haukilehto E,Kotiaho JS

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the variation among insects is derived from the different ways that chitin has been moulded to form rigid structures, both internal and external. In this study, we identify a highly conserved expression pattern in an insect-only gene family, the Osiris genes, that is essential for development, but also plays a...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Smith CR,Morandin C,Noureddine M,Pant S

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：: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：: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：:The evolutionary significance of widespread hypo-allometric scaling of genital traits in combination with rapid interspecific genital trait divergence has been of key interest to evolutionary biologists for many years and remains poorly understood. Here, we provide a detailed assessment of quantitative genital trait v...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Assis BA,Foellmer MW

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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：:Lifespan and ageing are strongly affected by many environmental factors, but the effects of social environment on these life-history traits are not well understood. We examined effects of social interaction on age-specific mortality rate in the sexually dimorphic neriid fly Telostylinus angusticollis. We found that al...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Adler MI,Bonduriansky R

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Ecologically important traits of insects are often affected by facultative bacterial endosymbionts. This is best studied in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, which is frequently infected by one or more of eight facultative symbiont species. Many of these symbiont species have been shown to provide one ecological bene...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Heyworth ER,Ferrari J

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Natural selection and post-copulatory sexual selection, including sexual conflict, contribute to genital diversification. Fundamental first steps in understanding how these processes shape the evolution of specific genital traits are to determine their function experimentally and to understand the interactions between...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Friesen CR,Uhrig EJ,Mason RT,Brennan PL

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid evolutionary divergence of male genital structures under sexual selection is well documented. However, variation in female genital traits and the potential for sexual conflict to drive the coevolution between male and female traits has only recently received attention. In many lepidopterans, females possess ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： McNamara KB,Dougherty LR,Wedell N,Simmons LW

更新日期：2019-05-01 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

abstract：:Our understanding of how fast mating behaviour evolves in insects is rather poor due to a lack of comparative studies among insect groups for which phylogenetic relationships are known. Here, we present a detailed study of the mating behaviour of 27 species of Sepsidae (Diptera) for which a well-resolved and supported...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Puniamoorthy N,Ismail MR,Tan DS,Meier R

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Density dependence in vital rates is a key feature affecting temporal fluctuations of natural populations. This has important implications for the rate of random genetic drift. Mating systems also greatly affect effective population sizes, but knowledge of how mating system and density regulation interact to affect ra...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Myhre AM,Engen S,SAEther BE

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:The importance of directional selection relative to neutral evolution may be determined by comparing quantitative genetic variation in phenotype (Q(ST)) to variation at neutral molecular markers (F(ST)). Quantitative divergence between salmonid life history types is often considerable, but ontogenetic changes in the s...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Perry GM,Audet C,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are heterokaryotes with an unusual genetic makeup. Substantial genetic variation occurs among nuclei within a single mycelium or isolate. AMF reproduce through spores that contain varying fractions of this heterogeneous population of nuclei. It is not clear whether this genetic varia...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Boon E,Zimmerman E,Lang BF,Hijri M

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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