Human activities and landscape features interact to closely define the distribution and dispersal of an urban commensal.

abstract：:Oceanic islands have reduced resources and natural enemies and potentially affect life history traits of arriving organisms. Among the most spectacular invasions in the Western hemisphere is that of the Africanized honeybee. We hypothesized that in the oceanic island Puerto Rico, Africanized bees will exhibit differen...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Rivera-Marchand B,Oskay D,Giray T

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As pest species may evolve resistance to chemical controls, they may also evolve resistance to cultural control methods. Yearly rotation of corn (Zea mays) with another crop interrupts the life cycle of the western corn rootworm beetle (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), but behavioral resista...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Knolhoff LM,Walden KK,Ratcliffe ST,Onstad DW,Robertson HM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation is a major extinction driver. Despite dramatically increasing fragmentation across the globe, its specific impacts on population connectivity across species with differing life histories remain difficult to characterize, let alone quantify. Here, we investigate patterns of population connectivity...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Cros E,Ng EYX,Oh RRY,Tang Q,Benedick S,Edwards DP,Tomassi S,Irestedt M,Ericson PGP,Rheindt FE

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid evolution has rarely been assessed in biological control systems despite the similarity with biological invasions, which are widely used as model systems. We assessed post-introduction climatic adaptation in a population of Longitarsus jacobaeae, a biological control agent of Jacobaea vulgaris, which originated ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Szűcs M,Schaffner U,Price WJ,Schwarzländer M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene flow in crop-wild complexes between phenotypically differentiated ancestors may transfer adaptive genetic variation that alters the fecundity and, potentially, the population growth (λ) of weeds. We created biotypes with potentially invasive traits, early flowering or long leaves, in wild radish (Raphanus raphani...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Campbell LG,Teitel Z,Miriti MN

更新日期：2016-02-28 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：: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：: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：: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：:A species of Galápagos tortoise endemic to Española Island was reduced to just 12 females and three males that have been bred in captivity since 1971 and have produced over 1700 offspring now repatriated to the island. Our molecular genetic analyses of juveniles repatriated to and surviving on the island indicate that...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Milinkovitch MC,Kanitz R,Tiedemann R,Tapia W,Llerena F,Caccone A,Gibbs JP,Powell JR

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Natural ecosystems are under pressure from increasing abiotic and biotic stressors, including climate change and novel pathogens, which are putting species at risk of local extinction, and altering community structure, composition and function. Here, we aim to assess adaptive variation in growth and fungal disease res...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Ahrens CW,Mazanec RA,Paap T,Ruthrof KX,Challis A,Hardy G,Byrne M,Tissue DT,Rymer PD

更新日期：2019-04-15 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：:Best practices in wildlife disease management require robust evolutionary ecological research (EER). This means not only basing management decisions on evolutionarily sound reasoning, but also conducting management in a way that actively contributes to the on-going development of that research. Because good management...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Crozier G,Schulte-Hostedde AI

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

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：:With global climate change, rainfall is becoming more variable. Predicting the responses of species to changing rainfall levels is difficult because, for example in herbivorous species, these effects may be mediated indirectly through changes in host plant quality. Furthermore, species responses may result from a simu...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gibbs M,Van Dyck H,Breuker CJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Neutral genetic markers are routinely used to define distinct units within species that warrant discrete management. Human-induced changes to gene flow however may reduce the power of such an approach. We tested the efficiency of adaptive versus neutral genetic markers in differentiating temporally divergent migratory...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： O'Malley KG,Jacobson DP,Kurth R,Dill AJ,Banks MA

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Biological control is the main purpose of intentionally introducing non-native invertebrate species. The evolutionary changes that occur in the populations of the introduced biological control agents may determine the agent's efficiency and the environmental safety. Here, to explore the pattern and extent of potential...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Li HS,Heckel G,Huang YH,Fan WJ,Ślipiński A,Pang H

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Synergistic interactions between temperature and contaminants are a major challenge for ecological risk assessment, especially under global warming. While thermal evolution may increase the ability to deal with warming, it is unknown whether it may also affect the ability to deal with the many contaminants that are mo...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Zhang C,Jansen M,De Meester L,Stoks R

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In most instances of tumour development, genetic instability plays a role in allowing cancer cell populations to respond to selection barriers, such as physical constraints or immune responses, and rapidly adapt to an always changing environment. Modelling instability is a nontrivial task, since by definition evolving...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Aguadé-Gorgorió G,Solé R

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrently invading pests provide unique challenges for pest management, but also present opportunities to utilize genomics to understand invasion dynamics and inform regulatory management through pathway analysis. In the southern United States, the Mexican fruit fly Anastrepha ludens is such a pest, and its incursio...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dupuis JR,Ruiz-Arce R,Barr NB,Thomas DB,Geib SM

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The sustainability of modern agriculture relies on strategies that can control the ability of pathogens to overcome chemicals or genetic resistances through natural selection. This evolutionary potential, which depends partly on effective population size (N e ), is greatly influenced by human activities. In this conte...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Jan PL,Gracianne C,Fournet S,Olivier E,Arnaud JF,Porte C,Bardou-Valette S,Denis MC,Petit EJ

更新日期：2016-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms involved in pathogen adaptation to quantitative resistance in plants has a key role to play in establishing durable strategies for resistance deployment, especially in perennial crops. The erosion of quantitative resistance has been recently suspected in Cuba and the Dominican Republic for...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dumartinet T,Abadie C,Bonnot F,Carreel F,Roussel V,Habas R,Martinez RT,Perez-Vicente L,Carlier J

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungicide resistance is a constant threat to agricultural production worldwide. Molecular mechanisms of fungicide resistance have been studied extensively in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. However, less is known about the evolutionary processes driving resistance development. In vitro evolutionary studies gi...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gutiérrez-Alonso O,Hawkins NJ,Cools HJ,Shaw MW,Fraaije BA

更新日期：2017-09-03 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