Digging for gold nuggets: uncovering novel candidate genes for variation in gastrointestinal nematode burden in a wild bird species.

abstract：:Polyembryonic encyrtid wasps are parasitoids that have evolved a clonal form of embryogenesis and a caste system where some progeny become reproducing wasps whereas others develop into a sterile soldier caste. Theory based on the biology of Copidosoma floridanum predicts that the primary role of soldier larvae is to m...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Smith MS,Milton I,Strand MR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocelli are serially repeated colour patterns on the wings of many butterflies. Eyespots are elaborate ocelli that function in predator avoidance and deterrence as well as in mate choice. A phylogenetic approach was used to study ocelli and eyespot evolution in Vanessa butterflies, a genus exhibiting diverse phenotypes...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Abbasi R,Marcus JM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some ants have an extraordinary form of social organization, called unicoloniality, whereby individuals mix freely among physically separated nests. This mode of social organization has been primarily studied in introduced and invasive ant species, so that the recognition ability and genetic structure of ants forming ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Holzer B,Chapuisat M,Kremer N,Finet C,Keller L

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive evolution often involves beneficial mutations at more than one locus. In this case, the trajectory and rate of adaptation is determined by the underlying fitness landscape, that is, the fitness values and mutational connectivity of all genotypes under consideration. Drug resistance, especially resistance to m...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Engelstädter J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic variation can arise from differences in the protein coding sequence and in the regulatory elements. However, little is known about the contribution of regulatory difference to the expression divergence, especially the cis and trans regulatory variation to the expression divergence in intraspecific populatio...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Huang YH,Hsieh DK,Sung HM

更新日期：2020-01-09 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：:The costs of bird song incurred in a diversity of ways may result in trade-offs in the production and maintenance of elaborate plumage ornaments. In this paper, we examine evolutionary trade-offs between acoustic and visual signalling in trogon birds (Trogonidae). Using multiple regressions with phylogenetically indep...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Ornelas JF,González C,Espinosa de los Monteros A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Queen pheromones are among the most important chemical messages regulating insect societies yet they remain largely undiscovered, hindering research into interesting proximate and ultimate questions. Identifying queen pheromones in multiple species would give new insight into the selective pressures and evolutionary c...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Holman L,Lanfear R,d'Ettorre P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Island races of passerine birds display repeated evolution towards larger body size compared with their continental ancestors. The Capricorn silvereye (Zosterops lateralis chlorocephalus) has become up to six phenotypic standard deviations bigger in several morphological measures since colonization of an island approx...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Frentiu FD,Clegg SM,Blows MW,Owens IP

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess whether floral integration patterns result from the action of pollinator selection on functionally related traits, we compared corolla integration patterns in eight Schizanthus species differing in pollination systems and in their degree of pollinator dependence across a molecular phylogeny. Integration patt...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Pérez F,Arroyo MT,Medel R

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wing dimorphic sand cricket, Gryllus firmus, there is a pronounced trade-off between flight capability and fecundity. This trade-off is found both between morphs and within the macropterous morph, in which fecundity is negatively correlated with the mass of the principle flight muscles, the dorso-longitudinal m...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Roff DA,Gélinas MB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of mature eggs remaining in the ovaries and the time left for oviposition determine the reproductive decisions of the hyperdiverse guild of insects that require discrete and potentially limiting resources for oviposition (such as seeds, fruits or other insects). A female may run out of eggs before all avail...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Deas JB,Hunter MS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent article, Nowak et al. claim that the mathematical basis of inclusive fitness theory does not stand to scrunity and to have found an alternative explanation for eusociality. We show that these claims are based on false premises, many of which have been exposed more than 25 years ago, such as misrepresentati...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rousset F,Lion S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segregation distorters are selfish genetic elements that subvert Mendelian inheritance, often by destroying gametes that do not carry the distorter. Simple theoretical models predict that distorter alleles will either spread to fixation or stabilize at some high intermediate frequency. However, many distorters have su...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wong HWS,Holman L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent models of mate preference evolution suggest that direct selection on alleles at preference loci and correlated evolution of preference with locally adapted mating cues are more likely to drive the evolution of assortative mate preference than reinforcement. Mate preference evolution in mimetic Heliconius butter...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kronforst MR,Young LG,Gilbert LE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large genetic variations in starvation tolerance in animals indicate that there are multiple strategies to cope with low-nutrient conditions. Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) typically respond to starvation by suppressing sleep and enhancing locomotor activity presumably to search for food. However, we hypothesiz...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Miura M,Takahashi A

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Evolutionary theory predicts that divergent selection pressures across elevational gradients could cause adaptive divergence and reproductive isolation in the process of ecological speciation. Although there is substantial evidence for adaptive divergence across elevation, there is less evidence that this restricts ge...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Funk WC,Murphy MA,Hoke KL,Muths E,Amburgey SM,Lemmon EM,Lemmon AR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenic and epigenetic effects of environmental stressors and their transgenerational consequences are of interest to evolutionary biologists because they can amplify natural genetic variation. We studied the effect of parental exposure to radioactive contamination on offspring development in lesser marsh grasshoppe...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Beasley DE,Bonisoli-Alquati A,Welch SM,Møller AP,Mousseau TA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the evolutionary relationship between spawning behaviour and sperm motility traits among Tanganyikan mouth-brooding cichlid species that have developed diverse mating behaviours and male sexual traits. Mouth-brooding behaviour is common among these fish, but different species demonstrate a range of spa...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Morita M,Awata S,Yorifuji M,Ota K,Kohda M,Ochi H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain types of asexual reproduction lead to loss of complementation, that is unmasking of recessive deleterious alleles. A theoretical measure of this loss is calculated for apomixis, automixis and endomitosis in the cases of diploidy and polyploidy. The effect of the consequent unmasking of deleterious recessive mu...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Archetti M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal resource fluctuations could affect the strength of antagonistic coevolution through population dynamics and costs of adaptation. We studied this by coevolving the prey bacterium Serratia marcescens with the predatory protozoa Tetrahymena thermophila in constant and pulsed-resource environments for approximate...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Friman VP,Laakso J,Koivu-Orava M,Hiltunen T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many palaeontological studies have investigated the evolution of entire body plans, generally relying on discrete character-taxon matrices. In contrast, macroevolutionary studies performed by neontologists have mostly focused on morphometric traits. Although these data types are very different, some studies have sugge...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Mongiardino Koch N,Ceccarelli FS,Ojanguren-Affilastro AA,Ramírez MJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual selection can explain major micro- and macro-evolutionary patterns. Much of current theory predicts that the strength of sexual selection (i) is driven by the relative abundance of males and females prepared to mate (i.e. the operational sex ratio, OSR) and (ii) can be generally estimated by calculating intra-s...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Klug H,Heuschele J,Jennions MD,Kokko H

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatozoa are the most diverse of all animal cells. Variation in size alone is enormous and yet there are still no clear evolutionary explanations that can account for such diversity. The basic genetics of sperm form is also poorly understood, although sperm size is known to have a strong genetic component. Here, us...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Morrow EH,Leijon A,Meerupati A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing the genetic basis of among-species variation in lifespan is a major goal of evolutionary gerontology research, but the very feature that defines separate species - the inability to interbreed - makes achieving this goal impractical, if not impossible, for most taxa. Pristionchus nematodes provide an int...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Weadick CJ,Sommer RJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how phenotypic diversity evolves is a major interest of evolutionary biology. Habitat use is an important factor in the evolution of phenotypic diversity of many animal species. Interestingly, male and female phenotypes have been frequently shown to respond differently to environmental variation. At the ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kaliontzopoulou A,Carretero MA,Adams DC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Switch-induced developmental plasticity, such as the diapause decision in insects, is a major form of adaptation to variable environments. As individuals that follow alternative developmental pathways will experience different selective environments the diapause decision may evolve to a cascade switch that induces add...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Gotthard K,Berger D

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory studies on Drosophila have revealed that resistance to one environmental stress often correlates with resistance to other stresses. There is also evidence on genetic correlations between stress resistance, longevity and other fitness-related traits. The present work investigates these associations using art...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bubliy OA,Loeschcke V

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different evolutionary interests between males and females can lead to the evolution of sexual dimorphism. However, intersex genetic correlations due to the shared genome can constrain the evolution of sexual dimorphism, resulting in intra-locus sexual conflict. One of the mechanisms resolving this conflict is sex lin...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kitano J,Kakioka R,Ishikawa A,Toyoda A,Kusakabe M

更新日期：2020-06-13 00:00:00