Pattern of local adaptation to quantitative host resistance in a major pathogen of a perennial crop.

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：:Organisms are expected to respond to alterations in their survival by evolutionary changes in their life history traits. As agriculture and aquaculture have become increasingly intensive in the past decades, there has been growing interest in their evolutionary effects on the life histories of agri- and aquacultural p...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Mennerat A,Ugelvik MS,Håkonsrud Jensen C,Skorping A

更新日期：2017-06-21 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：:The sterile insect technique (SIT) as an eco-friendly and reliable strategy has been used to control populations of insect pests of agricultural, veterinary and human health importance. Successful applications of SIT rely on the high-level ecological fitness of sterile males. A suitable and stable gut microbiome can c...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Cai Z,Yao Z,Li Y,Xi Z,Bourtzis K,Zhao Z,Bai S,Zhang H

更新日期：2018-10-09 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：: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：:Hybridization may be an important process interjecting variation into insect populations enabling host plant shifts and the origin of new economic pests. Here, we examine whether hybridization between the native snowberry-infesting fruit fly Rhagoletis zephyria (Snow) and the introduced quarantine pest R. pomonella (W...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Arcella T,Hood GR,Powell TH,Sim SB,Yee WL,Schwarz D,Egan SP,Goughnour RB,Smith JJ,Feder JL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in the evolution of invasive species has grown in recent years, yet few studies have investigated sources of variation in invasive species traits experiencing natural selection. The spiny water flea, Bythotrephes longimanus, is an invasive zooplankton in the Great Lakes that exhibits seasonal changes in tail ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Miehls AL,Peacor SD,McAdam AG

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution has resulted in thousands of species possessing similar metabolic enzymes with identical functions that are, however, regulated by different mechanisms. It is thus difficult to select optimal gene to engineer novel or manipulated metabolic pathways. Here, we tested the ability of molecular evolutionary analy...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Ma X,Zhang X,Wang B,Mao Y,Wang Z,Chen T,Zhao X

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the results of a series of experiments involving Aedes aegypti and its microsporidian parasite Vavraia culicis to illustrate how intra-specific competition and parasitism shape life history traits. More specifically these experiments showed that some major components of virulence are host condition-dependent...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Michalakis Y,Bédhomme S,Biron DG,Rivero A,Sidobre C,Agnew P

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although contemporary trends indicative of evolutionary change have been detected in the life-history traits of exploited populations, it is not known to what extent fishing influences the evolution of alternative life-history tactics in migratory species such as salmonids. Here, we build a model to predict the evolut...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Thériault V,Dunlop ES,Dieckmann U,Bernatchez L,Dodson JJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Spatial and temporal trends and variation in life-history traits, including age and length at maturation, can be influenced by environmental and anthropogenic processes, including size-selective exploitation. Spawning adults in many wild Alaskan sockeye salmon populations have become shorter at a given age over the pa...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Kendall NW,Dieckmann U,Heino M,Punt AE,Quinn TP

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene flow from plantations of nonlocal (genetically exotic) tree provenances into natural stands of the same species is probably a widespread phenomenon, but its effects remain largely unexamined. We investigated early fitness consequences of intraspecific exotic gene flow in the wild by assessing differences in survi...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Unger GM,Heuertz M,Vendramin GG,Robledo-Arnuncio JJ

更新日期：2016-01-09 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：:Fisheries-induced evolution has been hypothesized to delay the recovery of collapsed fish stocks through effects on their productivity. The cod stock in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (SGSL) collapsed in the early 1990s and has shown no recovery since then, due mainly to high natural mortality of adult cod. Age and...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Swain DP

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Antibiotic resistance is a growing concern to public health. New treatment strategies may alleviate the situation by slowing down the evolution of resistance. Here, we evaluated sequential treatment protocols using two fully independent laboratory-controlled evolution experiments with the human pathogen Pseudomonas ae...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Roemhild R,Barbosa C,Beardmore RE,Jansen G,Schulenburg H

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As we enter the sixth mass extinction, many species that are no longer self-sustaining in their natural habitat will require ex situ management. Zoos have finite resources for ex situ management, and there is a need for holistic conservation programs between the public and private sector. Ex situ populations of sable ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gooley RM,Tamazian G,Castañeda-Rico S,Murphy KR,Dobrynin P,Ferrie GM,Haefele H,Maldonado JE,Wildt DE,Pukazhenthi BS,Edwards CW,Koepfli KP

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterprise of virulence management attempts to predict how social practices and other factors affect the evolution of parasite virulence. These predictions are often based on parasite optima or evolutionary equilibria derived from models of host-parasite dynamics. Yet even when such models accurately capture the p...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Bull JJ,Ebert D

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Correlated genetic responses have been hypothesized as important components of fishery-induced evolution, although predictive data from wild populations have been difficult to obtain. Here, we demonstrate substantial genetic correlations between a trait often subjected to fishery selection (adult body length) and trai...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Johnson DW,Christie MR,Moye J,Hixon MA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the transition of bacterial species from commensal to pathogen, or vice versa, is a key application of evolutionary theory to preventative medicine. This requires working knowledge of the molecular interaction between hosts and bacteria, ecological interactions among microbes, spatial variation in bacter...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Lin D,Koskella B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of fishery-induced evolution has been accumulating rapidly from various avenues of investigation. Here we review the knowledge gained from experimental approaches. The strength of experiments is in their ability to disentangle genetic from environmental differences. Common garden experiments have provided dir...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Conover DO,Baumann H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00