Asymmetrical local adaptation of maize landraces along an altitudinal gradient.

abstract：:Striped Bass, Morone saxatilis (Walbaum, 1792), is an anadromous fish species that supports fisheries throughout North America and is native to the North American Atlantic Coast. Due to long coastal migrations that span multiple jurisdictions, a detailed understanding of population genomics is required to untangle dem...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： LeBlanc NM,Gahagan BI,Andrews SN,Avery TS,Puncher GN,Reading BJ,Buhariwalla CF,Curry RA,Whiteley AR,Pavey SA

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:I review theoretical models for the evolution of supergenes in the cases of Batesian mimicry in butterflies, distylous plants and sex chromosomes. For each of these systems, I outline the genetic evidence that led to the proposal that they involve multiple genes that interact during 'complex adaptations', and at which...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Charlesworth D

更新日期：2015-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the mediating role of body size in determining fitness, the "bigger-is-better" hypothesis still pervades evolutionary ecology despite evidence that natural selection on phenotypic traits varies in time and space. For Pacific salmon (genus Oncorhynchus), most individual studies quantify selection across a narrow...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Ulaski ME,Finkle H,Westley PAH

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:If the occurrence of cancer is the result of a random lottery among cells, then body mass, a surrogate for cells number, should predict cancer incidence. Despite some support in humans, this assertion does not hold over the range of different natural animal species where cancer incidence is known. Explaining the so-ca...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Roche B,Sprouffske K,Hbid H,Missé D,Thomas F

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:One challenge of evolutionary ecology is to predict the rate and mechanisms of population adaptation to environmental variations. The variations in most life history traits are shaped both by individual genotypic and by environmental variation. Forest trees exhibit high levels of genetic diversity, large population si...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Oddou-Muratorio S,Davi H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although contemporary trends indicative of evolutionary change have been detected in the life-history traits of exploited populations, it is not known to what extent fishing influences the evolution of alternative life-history tactics in migratory species such as salmonids. Here, we build a model to predict the evolut...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Thériault V,Dunlop ES,Dieckmann U,Bernatchez L,Dodson JJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary theory predicts that once an individual reaches an age of sufficiently low Darwinian fitness, (s)he will have reduced chances of keeping cancerous lesions in check. While we clearly need to better understand the emergence of precursor states and early malignancies as well as their mitigation by the microe...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Hochberg ME,Thomas F,Assenat E,Hibner U

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:Crop cultivation can lead to genetic swamping of indigenous species and thus pose a serious threat for biodiversity. The rare Eurasian tetraploid shrub Prunus fruticosa (ground cherry) is suspected of hybridizing with cultivated allochthonous tetraploid P. cerasus and autochthonous diploid P. avium. Three Prunus taxa ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Macková L,Vít P,Urfus T

更新日期：2018-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance is a crisis in health care today. Antibiotic resistance is often horizontally transferred to susceptible bacteria by means of multidrug resistance plasmids that may or may not persist in the absence of antibiotics. Because bacterial pathogens often grow as biofilms, th...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Ridenhour BJ,Metzger GA,France M,Gliniewicz K,Millstein J,Forney LJ,Top EM

更新日期：2017-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a widespread disease that affects most of the metazoans. However, cancer development is a slow process and, long before causing the death of the individual, may weaken organisms' capacities and impair their interactions with other species. Yet, the impact of cancer development on biotic interactions, and ove...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Perret C,Gidoin C,Ujvari B,Thomas F,Roche B

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the potential of marine organisms to adapt genetically to increasing oceanic CO2 levels requires proxies such as heritability of fitness-related traits under ocean acidification (OA). We applied a quantitative genetic method to derive the first heritability estimate of survival under elevated CO2 conditions ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Malvezzi AJ,Murray CS,Feldheim KA,DiBattista JD,Garant D,Gobler CJ,Chapman DD,Baumann H

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:Pest species represent a major ongoing threat to global biodiversity. Effective management approaches are required that regulate pest numbers, while minimizing collateral damage to nontarget species. The Trojan Female Technique (TFT) was recently proposed as a prospective approach to biological pest control. The TFT d...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dowling DK,Tompkins DM,Gemmell NJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eco-genetic individual-based models involve tracking the ecological dynamics of simulated individual organisms that are in part characterized by heritable parameters. We developed an eco-genetic individual-based model to explore ecological and evolutionary interactions of fish growth and maturation schedules. Our mode...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Wang HY,Höök TO

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With global climate change, rainfall is becoming more variable. Predicting the responses of species to changing rainfall levels is difficult because, for example in herbivorous species, these effects may be mediated indirectly through changes in host plant quality. Furthermore, species responses may result from a simu...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gibbs M,Van Dyck H,Breuker CJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory studies on associations between disease resistance and susceptibility and major histocompatibility (MH) genes in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar have shown the importance of immunogenetics in understanding the capacity of populations to fight specific diseases. However, the occurrence and virulence of pathogens...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： de Eyto E,McGinnity P,Huisman J,Coughlan J,Consuegra S,Farrell K,O'Toole C,Tufto J,Megens HJ,Jordan W,Cross T,Stet RJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:Best practices in wildlife disease management require robust evolutionary ecological research (EER). This means not only basing management decisions on evolutionarily sound reasoning, but also conducting management in a way that actively contributes to the on-going development of that research. Because good management...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Crozier G,Schulte-Hostedde AI

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Pathogens are ubiquitous in insect populations and yet few studies examine their dynamics and impacts on host populations. We discuss four lepidopteran systems and explore their contributions to disease ecology and evolution. More specifically, we elucidate the role of pathogens in insect population dynamics. For thre...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Myers JH,Cory JS

更新日期：2015-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial propagation programs focused on production, such as commercial aquaculture or forestry, entail strong domestication selection. Spillover from such programs can cause unintended fitness and demographic consequences for wild conspecifics. The range of possible management practices to minimize such consequence...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Baskett ML,Burgess SC,Waples RS

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Gene flow from plantations of nonlocal (genetically exotic) tree provenances into natural stands of the same species is probably a widespread phenomenon, but its effects remain largely unexamined. We investigated early fitness consequences of intraspecific exotic gene flow in the wild by assessing differences in survi...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Unger GM,Heuertz M,Vendramin GG,Robledo-Arnuncio JJ

更新日期：2016-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Once deployed uniformly in the field, genetically controlled plant resistance is often quickly overcome by pathogens, resulting in dramatic losses. Several strategies have been proposed to constrain the evolutionary potential of pathogens and thus increase resistance durability. These strategies can be classified into...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Rimbaud L,Papaïx J,Barrett LG,Burdon JJ,Thrall PH

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00