Genetic causes of transitions from sexual reproduction to asexuality in plants and animals.

abstract：:Animals use acoustic signals to defend resources against rivals and attract breeding partners. As with many biological traits, acoustic signals may reflect ancestry; closely related species often produce more similar signals than do distantly related species. Whether this similarity in acoustic signals is biologically...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Sosa-López JR,Martínez Gómez JE,Mennill DJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：: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：:Somatic cellular differentiation plays a critical role in the transition from unicellular to multicellular life, but the evolution of its genetic basis remains poorly understood. By definition, somatic cells do not reproduce to pass on genes and so constitute an extreme form of altruistic behaviour. The volvocine gree...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Grochau-Wright ZI,Hanschen ER,Ferris PJ,Hamaji T,Nozaki H,Olson BJSC,Michod RE

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared historic and contemporary genetic variation in two threatened New Zealand birds (saddlebacks and robins) with disparate bottleneck histories. Saddlebacks showed massive loss of genetic variation when extirpated from the mainland, but no significant loss of variation following a severe bottleneck in the 196...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Taylor SS,Jamieson IG,Wallis GP

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Mountain birch, Betula pubescens ssp. tortuosa, forms the treeline in northern Sweden. A recent shift in the range of the species associated with an elevation of the treeline is commonly attributed to climate warming. Using microsatellite markers, we explored the genetic structure of populations along an altitudinal g...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Truong C,Palmé AE,Felber F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenological shifts are the most widely reported ecological responses to climate change, but the requirements to distinguish their causes (i.e. phenotypic plasticity vs. microevolution) are rarely met. To do so, we analysed almost two decades of parturition data from a wild population of North American red squirrels (...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Lane JE,McAdam AG,McFarlane SE,Williams CT,Humphries MM,Coltman DW,Gorrell JC,Boutin S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the selective consequences of variation in behaviour and endocrine physiology in two female throat-colour morphs of the lizard, Uta stansburiana in the wild. Female morphs differed in home-range distribution patterns and corticosterone levels in relation to the density and frequency of their female neighbo...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Comendant T,Sinervo B,Svensson EI,Wingfield J

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge on interspecific pre- and post-zygotic isolation mechanisms provides insights into speciation patterns. Using crosses (F(1) and backcrosses) of two closely related flea beetles species, Altica fragariae and A. viridicyanea, specialized on different hosts in sympatry, we measured: (a) the type of reproductive...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Xue HJ,Magalhães S,Li WZ,Yang XK

更新日期：2009-11-01 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

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：:Viviparity, the bearing of live young, has evolved well over 100 times among squamate reptiles. This reproductive strategy is hypothesized to allow maternal control of the foetus' thermal environment and thereby to increase the fitness of the parents and offspring. Two hypotheses have been posited to explain this phen...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Watson CM,Makowsky R,Bagley JC

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Many animals display complex colour patterns that comprise several adjacent, often contrasting colour patches. Combining patches of complementary colours increases the overall conspicuousness of the complex pattern, enhancing signal detection. Therefore, selection for conspicuousness may act not only on the design of ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Pérez I de Lanuza G,Font E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological opportunities associated with transitions across the marine-freshwater interface are regarded as an important catalyst of diversification in a range of aquatic taxa. Here, we examined the role of these major habitat transitions and trophic diversification in a radiation of Australasian fishes using a ne...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Davis AM,Unmack PJ,Pusey BJ,Johnson JB,Pearson RG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aposematism is defined as the use of conspicuous colouration to warn predators that an individual is chemically or otherwise defended. Mechanisms that drive the evolution of aposematism are complex. Theoretical and empirical studies show that conspicuousness can be either positively or negatively correlated with toxic...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Cortesi F,Cheney KL

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Social group size may affect the potential for sperm competition, and this in turn may favour ontogenetic adjustments in testicular mass according to the likely requirements for sperm and spermatophore production. In a number of comparative analyses of testis mass among vertebrate species that differ in mating system ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Tan GN,Govedich FR,Burd M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a challenge to measure sexual selection because both stochastic events (chance) and deterministic factors (selection) generate variation in individuals' reproductive success. Most researchers realize that random events ('noise') make it difficult to detect a relationship between a trait and mating success (i.e. ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Jennions MD,Kokko H,Klug H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the ubiquitous nature of sperm storage in invertebrates, relatively little is known about its costs, or the impact that immune activation can have on a female's ability to maintain viable sperm stores. We explored the effects of an immune challenge on sperm storage under food-limited and ad libitum conditions ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： McNamara KB,van Lieshout E,Simmons LW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work [Ecoscience (2000) vol. 7, 395-397] suggests that the burying beetle Nicrophorus pustulatus may have undergone a remarkable host shift, exploiting snake eggs rather than carrion as resources for breeding. We conducted behavioural and physiological experiments to examine the hypothesis of a host shift and t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Smith G,Trumbo ST,Sikes DS,Scott MP,Smith RL

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied genetic differentiation between two social forms (M-type: single queen, independent nest founding; P-type: multiple queens, dependent nest founding, building of colonial networks) of the ant Formica truncorum in a locality where the social types characterize two sympatric populations. The genetic results in...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Gyllenstrand N,Seppä P,Pamilo P

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male fitness is dependent on sexual traits that influence mate acquisition (precopulatory sexual selection) and paternity (post-copulatory sexual selection), and although many studies have documented the form of selection in one or the other of these arenas, fewer have done it for both. Nonetheless, it appears that th...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Maraqa MS,Griffin R,Sharma MD,Wilson AJ,Hunt J,Hosken DJ,House CM

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Many animals provide parental care to offspring. Parental sex-roles vary extensively across taxa, and such patterns are considered well documented. However, information on amphibians is lacking relative to other vertebrate groups. We combine natural history observations with functional and historical analyses to exami...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Delia J,Bravo-Valencia L,Warkentin KM

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotype-by-genotype interactions demonstrate the existence of variation upon which selection acts in host-parasite systems at respective resistance and infection loci. These interactions can potentially be modified by environmental factors, which would entail that different genotypes are selected under different envi...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Cayetano L,Vorburger C

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Hybridization is likely to occur more often between closely related taxa that have had insufficient time to diverge to the point of reproductive incompatibility; hybridization between deeply divergent lineages is rare. In squamate reptiles, hybridization has been proposed as a possible explanation for the extensive pa...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Olave M,Avila LJ,Sites JW Jr,Morando M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how animal personality (consistent between-individual behavioural differences) arises has become a central topic in behavioural sciences. This endeavour is complicated by the fact that not only the mean behaviour of individuals (behavioural type) but also the strength of their reaction to environmental c...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Herczeg G,Urszán TJ,Orf S,Nagy G,Kotrschal A,Kolm N

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00