Geographic population structure of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae suggests a role for the forest-savannah biome transition as a barrier to gene flow.

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity and genetic adaptation are predicted to mitigate some of the negative biotic consequences of climate change. Here, we evaluate evidence for plastic and evolutionary responses to climate variation in amphibians and reptiles via a literature review and meta-analysis. We included studies that either...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Urban MC,Richardson JL,Freidenfelds NA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synergistic interactions between temperature and contaminants are a major challenge for ecological risk assessment, especially under global warming. While thermal evolution may increase the ability to deal with warming, it is unknown whether it may also affect the ability to deal with the many contaminants that are mo...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Zhang C,Jansen M,De Meester L,Stoks R

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of genetic mechanisms underpinning migratory behavior could help predict how changes in genetic diversity may affect future spatiotemporal distribution of a migratory species. This ability would benefit conservation of one such declining species, anadromous Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus). Nonphi...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Hess JE,Caudill CC,Keefer ML,McIlraith BJ,Moser ML,Narum SR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noug (Guizotia abyssinica) is a semidomesticated oil-seed crop, which is primarily cultivated in Ethiopia. Unlike its closest crop relative, sunflower, noug has small seeds, small flowering heads, many branches, many flowering heads, and indeterminate flowering, and it shatters in the field. Here, we conducted common ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dempewolf H,Tesfaye M,Teshome A,Bjorkman AD,Andrew RL,Scascitelli M,Black S,Bekele E,Engels JM,Cronk QC,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the transition of bacterial species from commensal to pathogen, or vice versa, is a key application of evolutionary theory to preventative medicine. This requires working knowledge of the molecular interaction between hosts and bacteria, ecological interactions among microbes, spatial variation in bacter...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Lin D,Koskella B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multistep transition from a normal to a malignant cellular phenotype is often termed "somatic evolution" caused by accumulating random mutations. Here, we propose an alternative model in which the initial genetic state of a cancer cell is the result of mutations that occurred throughout the lifetime of the host. H...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gatenby RA,Avdieiev S,Tsai KY,Brown JS

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Whitefish (Coregonus spp.) are an important catch for many freshwater fisheries, particularly in Switzerland. In support of this, supplemental stocking of whitefish species is carried out, despite lacking complete knowledge of the extent, distribution and origin of whitefish diversity in these lakes, potentially threa...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Hudson AG,Lundsgaard-Hansen B,Lucek K,Vonlanthen P,Seehausen O

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Current natural populations face new interactions because of the re-emergence of ancient microbes and viruses. These risks come from the re-emergence of pathogens kept in laboratories or from pathogens that are retained in the permafrost, which become available upon thawing due to climate change. We here focus on the ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Houwenhuyse S,Macke E,Reyserhove L,Bulteel L,Decaestecker E

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The rock pigeon, Columba livia, is a cosmopolitan human commensal, domesticated thousands of years ago. However, the human-mediated factors governing its distribution and dispersal are not well understood. In this study, we performed (a) hierarchical distance sampling on ~400 island-wide point transects, (b) a populat...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Tang Q,Low GW,Lim JY,Gwee CY,Rheindt FE

更新日期：2018-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of postglacial range shifts could enhance our understanding of seaweed species' responses to climate change and hence facilitate the conservation of natural resources. However, the distribution dynamics and phylogeographic diversification of the commercially and ecologically important kelp Saccharina japonica ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Zhang J,Yao J,Hu ZM,Jueterbock A,Yotsukura N,Krupnova TN,Nagasato C,Duan D

更新日期：2019-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization may be an important process interjecting variation into insect populations enabling host plant shifts and the origin of new economic pests. Here, we examine whether hybridization between the native snowberry-infesting fruit fly Rhagoletis zephyria (Snow) and the introduced quarantine pest R. pomonella (W...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Arcella T,Hood GR,Powell TH,Sim SB,Yee WL,Schwarz D,Egan SP,Goughnour RB,Smith JJ,Feder JL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population dynamics of marine species that are sessile as adults are driven by oceanographic dispersal of larvae from spawning to nursery grounds. This is mediated by life-history traits such as the timing and frequency of spawning, larval behaviour and duration, and settlement success. Here, we use 1725 single nucleo...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Coscia I,Wilmes SB,Ironside JE,Goward-Brown A,O'Dea E,Malham SK,McDevitt AD,Robins PE

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of fishery-induced evolution has been accumulating rapidly from various avenues of investigation. Here we review the knowledge gained from experimental approaches. The strength of experiments is in their ability to disentangle genetic from environmental differences. Common garden experiments have provided dir...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Conover DO,Baumann H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological control is the main purpose of intentionally introducing non-native invertebrate species. The evolutionary changes that occur in the populations of the introduced biological control agents may determine the agent's efficiency and the environmental safety. Here, to explore the pattern and extent of potential...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Li HS,Heckel G,Huang YH,Fan WJ,Ślipiński A,Pang H

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation is a major extinction driver. Despite dramatically increasing fragmentation across the globe, its specific impacts on population connectivity across species with differing life histories remain difficult to characterize, let alone quantify. Here, we investigate patterns of population connectivity...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Cros E,Ng EYX,Oh RRY,Tang Q,Benedick S,Edwards DP,Tomassi S,Irestedt M,Ericson PGP,Rheindt FE

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, the effects of chronic, continuous low dose environmental irradiation on the mitochondrial genome of resident small mammals are unknown. Using the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) as a model system, we tested the hypothesis that approximately 50 generations of exposure to the Chernobyl environment has significa...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Baker RJ,Dickins B,Wickliffe JK,Khan FAA,Gaschak S,Makova KD,Phillips CD

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterprise of virulence management attempts to predict how social practices and other factors affect the evolution of parasite virulence. These predictions are often based on parasite optima or evolutionary equilibria derived from models of host-parasite dynamics. Yet even when such models accurately capture the p...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Bull JJ,Ebert D

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence of climatic effects on riverine environments and adaptive responses of fishes have elicited growing conservation concerns. Measures to rectify population declines include assessment of local extinction risk, population ecology, viability, and genetic differentiation. While conservation planning has b...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Matala AP,Ackerman MW,Campbell MR,Narum SR

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral genetic markers are routinely used to define distinct units within species that warrant discrete management. Human-induced changes to gene flow however may reduce the power of such an approach. We tested the efficiency of adaptive versus neutral genetic markers in differentiating temporally divergent migratory...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： O'Malley KG,Jacobson DP,Kurth R,Dill AJ,Banks MA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary theory can be applied to improve agricultural yields and/or sustainability, an approach we call Evolutionary Agroecology. The basic idea is that plant breeding is unlikely to improve attributes already favored by millions of years of natural selection, whereas there may be unutilized potential in selectin...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Weiner J,Andersen SB,Wille WK,Griepentrog HW,Olsen JM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural enemies may go through genetic bottlenecks during the process of biological control introductions. Such bottlenecks are expected to be particularly detrimental in parasitoid Hymenoptera that exhibit complementary sex determination (CSD). CSD is associated with a severe form of inbreeding depression because hom...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Boer JG,Kuijper B,Heimpel GE,Beukeboom LW

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As we enter the sixth mass extinction, many species that are no longer self-sustaining in their natural habitat will require ex situ management. Zoos have finite resources for ex situ management, and there is a need for holistic conservation programs between the public and private sector. Ex situ populations of sable ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gooley RM,Tamazian G,Castañeda-Rico S,Murphy KR,Dobrynin P,Ferrie GM,Haefele H,Maldonado JE,Wildt DE,Pukazhenthi BS,Edwards CW,Koepfli KP

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual assignment and genetic mixture analysis are commonly utilized in contemporary wildlife and fisheries management. Although microsatellite loci provide unparalleled numbers of alleles per locus, their use in assignment applications is increasingly limited. However, next-generation sequencing, in conjunction w...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Bradbury IR,Wringe BF,Watson B,Paterson I,Horne J,Beiko R,Lehnert SJ,Clément M,Anderson EC,Jeffery NW,Duffy S,Sylvester E,Robertson M,Bentzen P

更新日期：2018-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge of evolutionary ecology over the next decades is to understand and predict the consequences of the current rapid and important environmental changes on wild populations. Extinction risk of species is linked to populations' evolutionary potential and to their ability to express adaptive phenotypic pla...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Garant D

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern maize breeding programs gave rise to genetically uniform varieties that can affect maize's capacity to cope with increasing climate unpredictability. Maize populations, genetically more heterogeneous, can evolve and better adapt to a broader range of edaphic-climatic conditions. These populations usually suffer...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Alves ML,Belo M,Carbas B,Brites C,Paulo M,Mendes-Moreira P,Brites C,Bronze MDR,Šatović Z,Vaz Patto MC

更新日期：2017-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The aetiological agent of Chagas disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, is a key human pathogen afflicting most populations of Latin America. This vectorborne parasite is transmitted by haematophageous triatomines, whose control by large-scale insecticide spraying has been the main strategy to limit the impact of the disease for...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Flores-Ferrer A,Marcou O,Waleckx E,Dumonteil E,Gourbière S

更新日期：2017-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary effects captive-bred individuals that can have on wild conspecifics are necessary considerations for stock enhancement programs, but breeding protocols are often developed without the knowledge of realized reproductive behavior. To help fill that gap, parentage was assigned to offspring produced by a ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gruenthal KM,Drawbridge MA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictions about the consequences of a small population size on genetic and deleterious variation are fundamental to population genetics. As small populations are more affected by genetic drift, purifying selection acting against deleterious alleles is predicted to be less efficient, therefore increasing the risk of ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Bortoluzzi C,Bosse M,Derks MFL,Crooijmans RPMA,Groenen MAM,Megens HJ

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in research on gene drives have produced genetic constructs that could theoretically spread a desired gene (payload) into all populations of a species, with a single release in one place. This attribute has advantages, but also comes with risks and ethical concerns. There has been a call for research o...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dhole S,Vella MR,Lloyd AL,Gould F

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Standing genetic variation may allow for rapid evolutionary response to the geologically unprecedented changes in global conditions. However, there is little known about the consequences of such rapid evolutionary change. Here, we measure genetic responses to experimental low and high pCO 2 levels in purple sea urchin...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Lloyd MM,Makukhov AD,Pespeni MH

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00