Invasion thresholds and the evolution of nonequilibrium virulence.

abstract：:Invertebrate pest invasions and outbreaks are associated with high social, economic, and ecological costs, and their significance will intensify with an increasing pressure on agricultural productivity as a result of human population growth and climate change. New molecular genetic and genomic techniques are available...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Kirk H,Dorn S,Mazzi D

更新日期：2013-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution has resulted in thousands of species possessing similar metabolic enzymes with identical functions that are, however, regulated by different mechanisms. It is thus difficult to select optimal gene to engineer novel or manipulated metabolic pathways. Here, we tested the ability of molecular evolutionary analy...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Ma X,Zhang X,Wang B,Mao Y,Wang Z,Chen T,Zhao X

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-induced trait change has been documented in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. These trait changes are driven by phenotypic plasticity and contemporary evolution. While efforts to manage human-induced trait change are beginning to receive some attention, managing its ecological consequence...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Palkovacs EP,Kinnison MT,Correa C,Dalton CM,Hendry AP

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sustainability of modern agriculture relies on strategies that can control the ability of pathogens to overcome chemicals or genetic resistances through natural selection. This evolutionary potential, which depends partly on effective population size (N e ), is greatly influenced by human activities. In this conte...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Jan PL,Gracianne C,Fournet S,Olivier E,Arnaud JF,Porte C,Bardou-Valette S,Denis MC,Petit EJ

更新日期：2016-02-11 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：:Cattle have been invaluable for the transition of human society from nomadic hunter-gatherers to sedentary farming communities throughout much of Europe, Asia and Africa since the earliest domestication of cattle more than 10,000 years ago. Although current understanding of relationships among ancestral populations re...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Pitt D,Sevane N,Nicolazzi EL,MacHugh DE,Park SDE,Colli L,Martinez R,Bruford MW,Orozco-terWengel P

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural ecosystems are under pressure from increasing abiotic and biotic stressors, including climate change and novel pathogens, which are putting species at risk of local extinction, and altering community structure, composition and function. Here, we aim to assess adaptive variation in growth and fungal disease res...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Ahrens CW,Mazanec RA,Paap T,Ruthrof KX,Challis A,Hardy G,Byrne M,Tissue DT,Rymer PD

更新日期：2019-04-15 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

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：:We review the results of a series of experiments involving Aedes aegypti and its microsporidian parasite Vavraia culicis to illustrate how intra-specific competition and parasitism shape life history traits. More specifically these experiments showed that some major components of virulence are host condition-dependent...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Michalakis Y,Bédhomme S,Biron DG,Rivero A,Sidobre C,Agnew P

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic chimerism is rarely considered in the analysis of population genetics data, because assumed to be an exceptionally rare, mostly benign, developmental accident. An unappreciated source of chimerism is transmissible cancer, when malignant cells have become independent parasites and can infect other individuals. ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Riquet F,Simon A,Bierne N

更新日期：2016-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In arid environments, the source of the malaria mosquito populations that re-establish soon after first rains remains a puzzle and alternative explanations have been proposed. Using genetic data, we evaluated whether the early rainy season (RS) population of Anopheles coluzzii is descended from the preceding late RS g...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Lehmann T,Weetman D,Huestis DL,Yaro AS,Kassogue Y,Diallo M,Donnelly MJ,Dao A

更新日期：2017-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Restoration of lost species ranges to their native distribution is key for the survival of endangered species. However, reintroductions often fail and long-term genetic consequences are poorly understood. Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) are wild goats that recovered from <100 individuals to ~50,000 within a century by popula...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Grossen C,Biebach I,Angelone-Alasaad S,Keller LF,Croll D

更新日期：2017-10-27 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：:Understanding the mechanisms involved in pathogen adaptation to quantitative resistance in plants has a key role to play in establishing durable strategies for resistance deployment, especially in perennial crops. The erosion of quantitative resistance has been recently suspected in Cuba and the Dominican Republic for...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dumartinet T,Abadie C,Bonnot F,Carreel F,Roussel V,Habas R,Martinez RT,Perez-Vicente L,Carlier J

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer development is widely recognized to be a somatic cell evolutionary process with complex dynamics and highly variable time frames. Variant cells and descendent subclones gain competitive advantage via their fitness in relation to micro-environmental selective pressures. In this context, the 'unit' of selection i...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Greaves M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary perspective of cancer (which origins and dynamics result from evolutionary processes) has gained significant international recognition over the past decade and generated a wave of enthusiasm among researchers. In this context, several authors proposed that insights into evolutionary and adaptation dyn...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Arnal A,Ujvari B,Crespi B,Gatenby RA,Tissot T,Vittecoq M,Ewald PW,Casali A,Ducasse H,Jacqueline C,Missé D,Renaud F,Roche B,Thomas F

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-modified habitats rarely yield outcomes that are aligned with conservation ideals. Landscapes that are subdivided by roads are no exception, precipitating negative impacts on populations due to fragmentation, pollution, and road kill. Although many populations in human-modified habitats show evidence for local a...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Brady SP,Zamora-Camacho FJ,Eriksson FAA,Goedert D,Comas M,Calsbeek R

更新日期：2019-01-18 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：: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：:Salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis are an ecologically and economically important parasite of wild and farmed salmon. In Scotland, Norway, and Eastern Canada, L. salmonis have developed resistance to emamectin benzoate (EMB), one of the few parasiticides available for salmon lice. Drug resistance mechanisms can be co...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Sutherland BJ,Poley JD,Igboeli OO,Jantzen JR,Fast MD,Koop BF,Jones SR

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oceanic islands have reduced resources and natural enemies and potentially affect life history traits of arriving organisms. Among the most spectacular invasions in the Western hemisphere is that of the Africanized honeybee. We hypothesized that in the oceanic island Puerto Rico, Africanized bees will exhibit differen...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Rivera-Marchand B,Oskay D,Giray T

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestication has been of major interest to biologists for centuries, whether for creating new plants and animal types or more formally exploring the principles of evolution. Such studies have long used combinations of phenotypic and genetic evidence. Recently, the advent of a large number of genomes and genomic tools...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Kantar MB,Bruford MW,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the evolution of clinal variation in an invasive plant, we compared cold hardiness in the introduced saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima, Tamarix chinensis, and hybrids) and the native plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides subsp. monilifera). In a shadehouse in Colorado (41°N), we grew plants collected along ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Friedman JM,Roelle JE,Gaskin JF,Pepper AE,Manhart JR

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:The evolutionary rescue of host populations may prevent extinction from novel pathogens. However, the conditions that facilitate rapid evolution of hosts, in particular the population variation in host susceptibility, and the effects of host evolution in response to pathogens on population outcomes remain largely unkn...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Christie MR,Searle CL

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Many populations are doomed to extinction, but little is known about how evolution contributes to their longevity. We address this by modeling an asexual population consisting of genotypes whose abundances change independently according to a system of continuous branching diffusions. Each genotype is characterized by ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gomulkiewicz R,Krone SM,Remien CH

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Whilst adaptation and phenotypic plasticity might buffer species against habitat degradation associated with global climate change, few studies making such claims also possess the necessary and sufficient data to support them. Doing so requires demonstration of heritable variation in traits affecting fitness under new...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： McCairns RJ,Smith S,Sasaki M,Bernatchez L,Beheregaray LB

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens are a global crisis. Because many bacterial infections are caused by pathogens that reside in biofilms, we sought to investigate how biofilms influence the evolution of antibiotic resistance. We hypothesize that the inherent spatial structure of ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： France MT,Cornea A,Kehlet-Delgado H,Forney LJ

更新日期：2018-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungicide resistance is a constant threat to agricultural production worldwide. Molecular mechanisms of fungicide resistance have been studied extensively in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. However, less is known about the evolutionary processes driving resistance development. In vitro evolutionary studies gi...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gutiérrez-Alonso O,Hawkins NJ,Cools HJ,Shaw MW,Fraaije BA

更新日期：2017-09-03 00:00:00