Microarray analysis yields candidate markers for rotation resistance in the western corn rootworm beetle, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera.

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：:Crop landraces are managed populations that evolve in response to gene flow and selection. Cross-pollination among fields, seed sharing by farmers, and selection by management and environmental conditions play roles in shaping crop characteristics. We used common gardens to explore the local adaptation of maize (Zea m...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Mercer K,Martínez-Vásquez Á,Perales HR

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:When populations of a rare species are small, isolated and declining under climate change, some populations may become locally maladapted. Detecting this maladaptation may allow effective rapid conservation interventions, even if based on incomplete knowledge. Population maladaptation may be estimated by finding genom...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Borrell JS,Zohren J,Nichols RA,Buggs RJA

更新日期：2019-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Key topics in the study of host-microbe interactions-such as the prevention of drug resistance and the exploitation of beneficial effects of bacteria-would benefit from concerted efforts with both mechanistic and evolutionary approaches. But due to differences in intellectual traditions, insights gained in one field r...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Wollein Waldetoft K,Råberg L,Lood R

更新日期：2020-03-31 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：:Common garden studies are increasingly used to identify differences in phenotypic traits between native and introduced genotypes, often ignoring sources of among-population variation within each range. We re-analyzed data from 32 common garden studies of 28 plant species that tested for rapid evolution associated with...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Colautti RI,Maron JL,Barrett SC

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The distribution of Asian ancestry in the genome of Danish Duroc pigs was investigated using whole-genome sequencing data from European wild boars, Danish Duroc, Chinese Meishan and Bamaxiang pigs. Asian haplotypes deriving from Meishan and Bamaxiang occur widely across the genome. Signatures of selection on Asian hap...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Chen M,Su G,Fu J,Wang A,Liu JF,Lund MS,Guldbrandtsen B

更新日期：2018-12-13 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：:While nonanadromous males (stream-resident and/or mature male parr) contribute to reproduction in anadromous salmonids, little is known about their impacts on key population genetic parameters. Here, we evaluated the contribution of Atlantic salmon mature male parr to the effective number of breeders (Nb) using both d...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Perrier C,Normandeau É,Dionne M,Richard A,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Understanding the evolutionary consequences of anthropogenic change is an emerging topic in evolutionary biology. While highly sensitive species may go extinct in response to anthropogenic habitat alteration, those with broader environmental tolerances may persist and adapt to the changes. Here, we use morphological d...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Marnocha E,Pollinger J,Smith TB

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early phases of biological invasions are poorly understood. In particular, during the introduction, establishment, and possible lag phases, it is unclear to what extent evolution must take place for an introduced species to transition from established to expanding. In this study, we highlight three disparate data ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Marsico TD,Burt JW,Espeland EK,Gilchrist GW,Jamieson MA,Lindström L,Roderick GK,Swope S,Szűcs M,Tsutsui ND

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Evolution has contributed to the successful invasion of exotic plant species in their introduced ranges, but how evolution affects particular control strategies is still under evaluation. For instance, classical biological control, a common strategy involving the utilization of highly specific natural enemies to contr...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Williams WI,Friedman JM,Gaskin JF,Norton AP

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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