Heart disease is common in humans and chimpanzees, but is caused by different pathological processes.

abstract：:Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly implemented worldwide to maintain and restore depleted populations. However, despite our knowledge on the myriad of positive responses to protection, there are few empirical studies on the ability to conserve species' mating patterns and secondary sexual traits. In male E...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Sørdalen TK,Halvorsen KT,Vøllestad LA,Moland E,Olsen EM

更新日期：2020-05-22 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：:Genomic methodologies offer unprecedented opportunities for statistically robust studies of species broadly distributed in environments conducive to high gene flow, providing valuable information for wildlife conservation and management. Here, we sequence restriction site-associated DNA to characterize genome-wide sin...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Mamoozadeh NR,Graves JE,McDowell JR

更新日期：2019-11-22 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：:Here, we compare the evolutionary routes by which bacteria and insects have evolved enzymatic processes for the degradation of four classes of synthetic chemical insecticide. For insects, the selective advantage of such degradative activities is survival on exposure to the insecticide, whereas for the bacteria the adv...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Russell RJ,Scott C,Jackson CJ,Pandey R,Pandey G,Taylor MC,Coppin CW,Liu JW,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Species distributions are rapidly changing as human globalization increasingly moves organisms to novel environments. In marine systems, species introductions are the result of a number of anthropogenic mechanisms, notably shipping, aquaculture/mariculture, the pet and bait trades, and the creation of canals. Marine i...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Blakeslee AMH,Manousaki T,Vasileiadou K,Tepolt CK

更新日期：2020-01-03 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：: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：: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：:All salmonid species investigated to date have been characterized with a male heterogametic sex-determination system. However, as these species do not share any Y-chromosome conserved synteny, there remains a debate on whether they share a common master sex-determining gene. In this study, we investigated the extent o...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Yano A,Nicol B,Jouanno E,Quillet E,Fostier A,Guyomard R,Guiguen Y

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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：:Pesticides commonly occur in aquatic systems and pose a substantial challenge to the conservation of many taxa. Ecotoxicology has traditionally met this challenge by focusing on short-term, single-species tests and conducting risk assessments based on the most sensitive species tested. Rarely have ecotoxicology data b...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Hammond JI,Jones DK,Stephens PR,Relyea RA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

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：:Preservation of adaptive variation is a top priority of many species restoration programs, but most restoration activities are conducted without direct knowledge of selection that might foster or impair adaptation and restoration goals. In this study, we quantified geographic variation in selection on fry size of enda...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Bailey MM,Kinnison MT

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Salmon life histories are finely tuned to local environmental conditions, which are intimately linked to climate. We summarize the likely impacts of climate change on the physical environment of salmon in the Pacific Northwest and discuss the potential evolutionary consequences of these changes, with particular refere...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Crozier LG,Hendry AP,Lawson PW,Quinn TP,Mantua NJ,Battin J,Shaw RG,Huey RB

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:The decreasing cost and increasing scope and power of emerging genomic technologies are reshaping the field of molecular ecology. However, many modern genomic approaches (e.g., RAD-seq) require large amounts of high-quality template DNA. This poses a problem for an active branch of conservation biology: genetic monito...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Carroll EL,Bruford MW,DeWoody JA,Leroy G,Strand A,Waits L,Wang J

更新日期：2018-03-24 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Drought is one of the most important selection pressures for forest trees in the context of climate change. Yet, the different evolutionary mechanisms, and their environmental drivers, by which certain populations become more drought tolerant than others is still little understood. We studied adaptation to drought in ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Csilléry K,Buchmann N,Fady B

更新日期：2020-06-17 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：: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