Intrasexual selection favours an immune-correlated colour ornament in a dragonfly.

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：: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：:Genome scans have made it possible to find outlier markers thought to have been influenced by divergent selection in almost any wild population. However, the lack of genomic information in nonmodel species often makes it difficult to associate these markers with certain genes or chromosome regions. Furthermore, the ex...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Lundberg M,Akesson S,Bensch S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation allows populations to diverge and to fix different alleles. Deleterious alleles that reach locally high frequencies contribute to genetic load, especially in inbred or selfing populations, in which selection is relaxed. In the event of secondary contact, the recessive portion of the genetic load is masked in...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Harkness A,Brandvain Y,Goldberg EE

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of phylogenetic signal is assumed to be ubiquitous. However, for microorganisms, this may not be true given that they display high physiological flexibility and have fast regeneration. This may result in fundamentally different patterns of resemblance, that is, in variable strength of phylogenetic signal....

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Krause S,van Bodegom PM,Cornwell WK,Bodelier PL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the extent to which phylogenetic effects and ecology are associated with macroevolutionary patterns of phytochemical defense production across the Mimulus phylogeny. We grew plants from 21 species representing the five major sections of the Mimulus phylogeny in a common garden to assess how the arsenals (NM...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Holeski LM,Keefover-Ring K,Sobel JM,Kooyers NJ

更新日期：2021-01-22 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

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：:According to the 'pace-of-life' syndrome hypothesis, differences in resting metabolic rate (RMR) should be genetically associated with exploratory behaviour. A large number of studies reported significant heritability for both RMR and exploratory behaviour, but the genetic correlation between the two has yet to be doc...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Careau V,Thomas D,Pelletier F,Turki L,Landry F,Garant D,Réale D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive division of labour is a defining feature of insect societies. Stingless bees (Meliponini) are an interesting exception among the highly eusocial insects in that workers of many species contribute significantly to the production of males. Since workers remain sterile in other species of this large tropical...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Grüter C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is impacting locally adapted species such as the keystone tree species cork oak (Quercus suber L.). Quantifying the importance of environmental variables in explaining the species distribution can help build resilient populations in restoration projects and design forest management strategies. Using lan...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Vanhove M,Pina-Martins F,Coelho AC,Branquinho C,Costa A,Batista D,Silva A,Sousa P,Henriques A,Marques I,Belkadi B,Knowles LL,Paulo OS

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Any population whose members are subject to extrinsic mortality should exhibit an increase in mortality with age. Nevertheless, the prevailing opinion is that populations of adult damselflies and dragonflies do not exhibit such senescence. Here, we challenge this contention by fitting a range of demographic models to ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Sherratt TN,Hassall C,Laird RA,Thompson DJ,Cordero-Rivera A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nectar robbing not only affects the reproductive fitness of the plant but it may also potentially affect the pollination dynamics of the associated coflowering individuals. In this study, we established that the nectar robber Xylocopa sinensis robs nectar only from the hermaphrodite ramets of the gynodioecious plant G...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Zhang YW,Yang CF,Zhao JM,Guo YH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms at northern latitudes have responded to climate warming by advancing their spring phenology. Birds are known to show earlier timing of spring migration and reproduction in response to warmer springs. However, species show heterogeneous phenological responses to climate warming, with those that have not ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Møller AP,Rubolini D,Saino N

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the functions of animal coloration has been a long-standing question in evolutionary biology. For example, the widespread occurrence of striking longitudinal stripes and colourful tails in lizards begs for an explanation. Experiments have suggested that colourful tails can deflect attacks towards the tai...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Murali G,Merilaita S,Kodandaramaiah U

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female insects that mate multiply tend to have increased lifetime fitness, apparently because of greater access to male-derived resources (e.g. sperm, nuptial gifts) that elevate fertility/fecundity. Experiments that standardize the number of matings per female also show that polyandry can improve aspects of offspring...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Jennions MD,Drayton JM,Brooks R,Hunt J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal effects on progeny wing size and shape in a homozygous parthenogenetic strain of Drosophila mercatorum were investigated. The impact of external maternal factors (heat stress) and the impact of internal maternal factors (different maternal and grand maternal age) were studied. The offspring developed under id...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Andersen DH,Pertoldi C,Scali V,Loeschcke V

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Bitterling fishes deposit their eggs on the gills of living mussels using a long ovipositor. We examined whether ovipositor length (OL) and egg shape correlated with differences in host mussel species in the family Unionidae among populations of the tabira bitterling (Acheilognathus tabira) in Japan. Bitterling popula...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kitamura J,Nagata N,Nakajima J,Sota T

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:Whole-comparative genomic hybridization (W-CGH) has been used to exemplify a simple methodology which allows identifying and mapping whole genome differences for highly repetitive DNA sequences between two related species of unknown genomic background. The use of this technique to the species binomy Arcyptera fusca/Ar...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Pita M,Zabal-Aguirre M,Arroyo F,Gosálvez J,López-Fernández C,DE LA Torre J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic traits that convey information about individual identity or quality are important in animal social interactions, and the degree to which such traits are influenced by environmental variation can have profound effects on the reliability of these cues. Using inbred genetic lines of the decorated cricket, Gryl...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Weddle CB,Mitchell C,Bay SK,Sakaluk SK,Hunt J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune defence is hypothesized to be a trait that bears significant fitness costs as well as benefits in that mounting a defence depreciates the value of other life-history traits. Thus the cost of mounting an immune response could affect the evolution of both the immune system and correlated life history traits. In t...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rantala MJ,Roff DA

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：: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：:Many forms of reproductive isolation contribute to speciation, and early-acting barriers may be especially important, because they have the first opportunity to limit gene flow. Ecogeographic isolation occurs when intrinsic traits of taxa contribute to disjunct geographic distributions, reducing the frequency of inter...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Sobel JM,Stankowski S,Streisfeld MA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The processes of island colonization and speciation are investigated through mtDNA studies on Canary Island beetles. The genus Nesotes (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is represented by 19 endemic species on the Canary Islands, the majority of which are single island endemics. Nesotes conformis is the most widespread, occu...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rees DJ,Emerson BC,Oromí P,Hewitt GM

更新日期：2001-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of an oxyphobic index (OI) based on the propensity of amino acids to enter more frequently the proteins of anaerobes makes it possible to make inferences on the environment in which the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) lived. The reconstruction of the ancestral sequences of proteins using a method based o...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Di Giulio M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian evolutionary history, Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) achieved astonishing success by adapting to an aquatic environment. One unique characteristic of cetaceans, contributing to this adaptive success, is efficient lipid utilization. Here, we report a comparative genetic analysis of five aquatic a...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Endo Y,Kamei KI,Inoue-Murayama M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition and conflict among individuals can favour exploitative strategies that undermine the common good. Theory suggests that this can lead to a tragedy of the commons and ultimately population extinction, a phenomenon known as evolutionary suicide. Here, I present a model of the evolutionary tragedy of the commo...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rankin DJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00