Colonization and demographic expansion of freshwater fauna across the Hawaiian archipelago.

abstract：:Phylogeny of the butterfly genera Araschnia, Mynes, Symbrenthia and Brensymthia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalini) is reconstructed, based on 140 morphological and ecological characters. The resulting tree shows that Araschnia is a sister group of the clade including Symbrenthia, Mynes and Brensymthia (Symbrenthia...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Fric Z,Konvicka M,Zrzavy J

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia are bacterial endosymbionts that manipulate the reproduction of their arthropod hosts. Although theory suggests that infections are frequently lost within host species due to the evolution of resistance, Wolbachia infect a huge number of species worldwide. This apparent paradox suggests that horizontal trans...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Zug R,Koehncke A,Hammerstein P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaternary environmental changes substantially impacted the landscape and promoted rapid evolutionary changes in many species; however, analyses of adaptive phenotypic variation in plants have usually neglected the underlying historical context. Here, we associate phylogeography and phenotypic evolution by analysing t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Maubecin CC,Cosacov A,Sérsic AN,Fornoni J,Benitez-Vieyra S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic cellular differentiation plays a critical role in the transition from unicellular to multicellular life, but the evolution of its genetic basis remains poorly understood. By definition, somatic cells do not reproduce to pass on genes and so constitute an extreme form of altruistic behaviour. The volvocine gree...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Grochau-Wright ZI,Hanschen ER,Ferris PJ,Hamaji T,Nozaki H,Olson BJSC,Michod RE

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variability in the way organisms reproduce raises numerous, and still unsolved, questions in evolutionary biology. In this study, we emphasize that fungi deserve a much greater emphasis in efforts to address these questions because of their multiple advantages as model eukaryotes. A tremendous diversity of reproductiv...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Billiard S,López-Villavicencio M,Hood ME,Giraud T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I examined the intrinsic postzygotic incompatibilities between two pupfishes, Cyprinodon elegans and Cyprinodon variegatus. Laboratory hybridization experiments revealed evidence of strong postzygotic isolation. Male hybrids have very low fertility, and the survival of backcrosses into C. elegans was substantially red...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Tech C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-associated differentiation (HAD) is considered a step towards ecological speciation and an important mechanism promoting diversification in phytophagous insects. Although the number of documented cases of HAD is increasing, these still represent only a small fraction of species and feeding guilds among phytophago...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Dorchin N,Scott ER,Clarkin CE,Luongo MP,Jordan S,Abrahamson WG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central tool for the study of allele frequency change due to selection is the remarkably simple but powerful formula of Price [Nature 227 (1970) 520]. Here, I provide what might be called a structural analysis of this formula. The formula essentially accumulates the average allele frequency change over many instan...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Taylor P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seminal fluid proteins (SFPs) can trigger drastic changes in mating partners, mediating post-mating sexual selection and associated sexual conflict. Also, cross-species comparisons have demonstrated that SFPs evolve rapidly and hint that post-mating sexual selection drives their rapid evolution. In principle, this pat...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Nakadera Y,Thornton Smith A,Daupagne L,Coutellec MA,Koene JM,Ramm SA

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that marker-based heterozygosity-fitness correlations may be driven by only one or a few markers, indicating local heterozygosity effects caused by linkage disequilibrium with functional genes. In this study, we investigated the relationship between microsatellite heterozygosity and a measure ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Fossøy F,Johnsen A,Lifjeld JT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male fitness is dependent on sexual traits that influence mate acquisition (precopulatory sexual selection) and paternity (post-copulatory sexual selection), and although many studies have documented the form of selection in one or the other of these arenas, fewer have done it for both. Nonetheless, it appears that th...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Maraqa MS,Griffin R,Sharma MD,Wilson AJ,Hunt J,Hosken DJ,House CM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic divergence in allopatry can facilitate speciation by reducing the likelihood that individuals of different lineages hybridize during secondary contact. However, few studies have established the causes of reproductive isolation in the crucial early stages of secondary contact. Here, we establish behavioural ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Heathcote RJ,While GM,MacGregor HE,Sciberras J,Leroy C,D'Ettorre P,Uller T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory suggests that intraspecific competition associated with direct competition between inbred and outbred individuals should be an important determinant of the severity of inbreeding depression. The reason is that, if outbred individuals are stronger competitors than inbred ones, direct competition should have a di...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Miller M,Ratz T,Richardson J,Smiseth PT

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Vertebrates commonly use carotenoid-based traits as social signals. These can reliably advertise current nutritional status and health because carotenoids must be acquired through the diet and their allocation to ornaments is traded-off against other self-maintenance needs. We propose that the coloration more generall...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Mougeot F,Martínez-Padilla J,Bortolotti GR,Webster LM,Piertney SB

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical models predict that parasite relatedness affects the outcome of competition between parasites, and the evolution of parasite virulence. We examined whether parasite relatedness affects competition between parasitic plants (Cuscuta europaea) that share common host plants (Urtica dioica). We infected hosts w...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Puustinen S,Koskela T,Mutikainen P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually selected traits are limited by selection against those traits in other fitness components, such as survival. Thus, sexual selection favouring large size in males should be balanced by higher mortality of larger males. However, evidence from red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) indicates that large male...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kissner KJ,Weatherhead PJ,Francis CM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals use acoustic signals to defend resources against rivals and attract breeding partners. As with many biological traits, acoustic signals may reflect ancestry; closely related species often produce more similar signals than do distantly related species. Whether this similarity in acoustic signals is biologically...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Sosa-López JR,Martínez Gómez JE,Mennill DJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologically important traits of insects are often affected by facultative bacterial endosymbionts. This is best studied in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, which is frequently infected by one or more of eight facultative symbiont species. Many of these symbiont species have been shown to provide one ecological bene...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Heyworth ER,Ferrari J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian brood parasites reduce the reproductive output of their hosts and thereby select for defence mechanisms such as ejection of parasitic eggs. Such defence mechanisms simultaneously select for counter-defences in brood parasites, causing a coevolutionary arms race. Although coevolutionary models assume that defence...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Martín-Gálvez D,Soler JJ,Martínez JG,Krupa AP,Richard M,Soler M,Møller AP,Burke T

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the evolution of multiple mating by females (polyandry) is an important question in behavioural ecology. Most leading explanations for polyandry by social insect queens are based upon a postulated fitness benefit from increased intracolonial genetic diversity, which also arises when colonies are headed b...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hughes WO,Ratnieks FL,Oldroyd BP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive barriers and divergence in species' mate recognition systems underlie major models of speciation. However, hybridization between divergent species is common, and classic mechanisms to explain permeable reproductive barriers rarely consider how an individual may attain reproductive success. Alternative mat...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Stewart KA,Hudson CM,Lougheed SC

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species of the sexually deceptive genus Ophrys are characterized by insect-like flowers. Their form has been traditionally considered to play an important role in pollinator attraction and manipulation. Yet, the evolution of the floral form remains insufficiently understood. We hypothesize that pollinator-mediate...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rakosy D,Cuervo M,Paulus HF,Ayasse M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vertebrates, changes in cranial modularity can evolve rapidly in response to selection. However, mammals have apparently maintained their pattern of cranial integration throughout their evolutionary history and across tremendous morphological and ecological diversity. Here, we use phylogenetic, geometric morphometr...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Santana SE,Lofgren SE

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colour polymorphisms are known to influence receiver behaviour, but how they affect a receiver's ability to detect and recognize individuals in nature is usually unknown. I hypothesized that polymorphic female damselflies represent an evolutionary stable strategy, maintained by trade-offs between the relative apparenc...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Fincke OM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic polymorphisms in natural systems are often maintained by ecological selection, but only if niche segregation between morphs exists. Polymorphism for eyed-side direction is rare among the approximately 700 species of flatfish (Pleuronectiformes), and the evolutionary mechanisms that maintain it are unknown. ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Bergstrom CA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants exist across varying biotic and abiotic environments, including variation in the composition of soil microbial communities. The ecological effects of soil microbes on plant communities are well known, whereas less is known about their importance for plant evolutionary processes. In particular, the net effects o...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Fitzpatrick CR,Mustafa Z,Viliunas J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how phenotypic plasticity evolves and in turn affects the course of evolution is a major challenge in modern biology. By definition, biological species are reproductively isolated, but many animals fail to distinguish between conspecifics and closely related heterospecifics. In some cases, phenotypic pla...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Drury JP,Anderson CN,Grether GF

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of multicellularity is a major transition that is not yet fully understood. Specifically, we do not know whether there are any mechanisms by which multicellularity can be maintained without a single-cell bottleneck or other relatedness-enhancing mechanisms. Under low relatedness, cheaters can evolve that...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Levin SR,Brock DA,Queller DC,Strassmann JE

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental manipulations have consistently demonstrated a cost of reproduction in the capital-breeding seed beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus, as females deprived of seeds or mates lay fewer eggs and thereby increase their longevity. Yet fecundity and longevity tend to be positively correlated within populations, pe...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Messina FJ,Fry JD

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00