Natural and human-induced environmental changes and their effects on adaptive potential of wild animal populations.

abstract：:Striped Bass, Morone saxatilis (Walbaum, 1792), is an anadromous fish species that supports fisheries throughout North America and is native to the North American Atlantic Coast. Due to long coastal migrations that span multiple jurisdictions, a detailed understanding of population genomics is required to untangle dem...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： LeBlanc NM,Gahagan BI,Andrews SN,Avery TS,Puncher GN,Reading BJ,Buhariwalla CF,Curry RA,Whiteley AR,Pavey SA

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Once deployed uniformly in the field, genetically controlled plant resistance is often quickly overcome by pathogens, resulting in dramatic losses. Several strategies have been proposed to constrain the evolutionary potential of pathogens and thus increase resistance durability. These strategies can be classified into...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Rimbaud L,Papaïx J,Barrett LG,Burdon JJ,Thrall PH

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Delineating species is a difficult and seemingly uninteresting issue that is still essential to address. Taxonomic methodology is heterogeneous according to the taxa and scientists involved due to the disparate data quality and quantity and disagreements over the species concept. This has negative impacts on basic and...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Galtier N

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Key topics in the study of host-microbe interactions-such as the prevention of drug resistance and the exploitation of beneficial effects of bacteria-would benefit from concerted efforts with both mechanistic and evolutionary approaches. But due to differences in intellectual traditions, insights gained in one field r...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Wollein Waldetoft K,Råberg L,Lood R

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern maize breeding programs gave rise to genetically uniform varieties that can affect maize's capacity to cope with increasing climate unpredictability. Maize populations, genetically more heterogeneous, can evolve and better adapt to a broader range of edaphic-climatic conditions. These populations usually suffer...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Alves ML,Belo M,Carbas B,Brites C,Paulo M,Mendes-Moreira P,Brites C,Bronze MDR,Šatović Z,Vaz Patto MC

更新日期：2017-10-14 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：:Crop landraces are managed populations that evolve in response to gene flow and selection. Cross-pollination among fields, seed sharing by farmers, and selection by management and environmental conditions play roles in shaping crop characteristics. We used common gardens to explore the local adaptation of maize (Zea m...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Mercer K,Martínez-Vásquez Á,Perales HR

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms of how urbanization influences the evolution of native species is vital for urban wildlife ecology and conservation in the Anthropocene. With thousands of years of agriculture-dominated historical urbanization followed by 40 years of intensive and rapid urbanization, Shanghai provides an i...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Wei X,Huang M,Yue Q,Ma S,Li B,Mu Z,Peng C,Gao W,Liu W,Zheng J,Weng X,Sun X,Zuo Q,Bo S,Yuan X,Zhang W,Yang G,Ding Y,Wang X,Wang T,Hua P,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the mediating role of body size in determining fitness, the "bigger-is-better" hypothesis still pervades evolutionary ecology despite evidence that natural selection on phenotypic traits varies in time and space. For Pacific salmon (genus Oncorhynchus), most individual studies quantify selection across a narrow...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Ulaski ME,Finkle H,Westley PAH

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The rock pigeon, Columba livia, is a cosmopolitan human commensal, domesticated thousands of years ago. However, the human-mediated factors governing its distribution and dispersal are not well understood. In this study, we performed (a) hierarchical distance sampling on ~400 island-wide point transects, (b) a populat...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Tang Q,Low GW,Lim JY,Gwee CY,Rheindt FE

更新日期：2018-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Noug (Guizotia abyssinica) is a semidomesticated oil-seed crop, which is primarily cultivated in Ethiopia. Unlike its closest crop relative, sunflower, noug has small seeds, small flowering heads, many branches, many flowering heads, and indeterminate flowering, and it shatters in the field. Here, we conducted common ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dempewolf H,Tesfaye M,Teshome A,Bjorkman AD,Andrew RL,Scascitelli M,Black S,Bekele E,Engels JM,Cronk QC,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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 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：:Whilst adaptation and phenotypic plasticity might buffer species against habitat degradation associated with global climate change, few studies making such claims also possess the necessary and sufficient data to support them. Doing so requires demonstration of heritable variation in traits affecting fitness under new...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： McCairns RJ,Smith S,Sasaki M,Bernatchez L,Beheregaray LB

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Reassortment between different species or strains plays a key role in the evolution of multipartite plant viruses and can have important epidemiological implications. Identifying geographic locations where reassortant lineages are most likely to emerge could be a valuable strategy for informing disease management and ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Savory FR,Varma V,Ramakrishnan U

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-modified habitats rarely yield outcomes that are aligned with conservation ideals. Landscapes that are subdivided by roads are no exception, precipitating negative impacts on populations due to fragmentation, pollution, and road kill. Although many populations in human-modified habitats show evidence for local a...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Brady SP,Zamora-Camacho FJ,Eriksson FAA,Goedert D,Comas M,Calsbeek R

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast increase of fish aquaculture production to meet consumer demands is accompanied by important ecological concerns such as disease outbreaks. Meanwhile, food waste is an important concern with fish products since they are highly perishable. Recent aquaculture and fish product microbiology, and more recently, microb...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Derome N,Filteau M

更新日期：2020-06-09 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：:The evolutionary rescue of host populations may prevent extinction from novel pathogens. However, the conditions that facilitate rapid evolution of hosts, in particular the population variation in host susceptibility, and the effects of host evolution in response to pathogens on population outcomes remain largely unkn...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Christie MR,Searle CL

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

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：: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：:The aetiological agent of Chagas disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, is a key human pathogen afflicting most populations of Latin America. This vectorborne parasite is transmitted by haematophageous triatomines, whose control by large-scale insecticide spraying has been the main strategy to limit the impact of the disease for...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Flores-Ferrer A,Marcou O,Waleckx E,Dumonteil E,Gourbière S

更新日期：2017-12-25 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：:All salmonid species investigated to date have been characterized with a male heterogametic sex-determination system. However, as these species do not share any Y-chromosome conserved synteny, there remains a debate on whether they share a common master sex-determining gene. In this study, we investigated the extent o...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Yano A,Nicol B,Jouanno E,Quillet E,Fostier A,Guyomard R,Guiguen Y

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly implemented worldwide to maintain and restore depleted populations. However, despite our knowledge on the myriad of positive responses to protection, there are few empirical studies on the ability to conserve species' mating patterns and secondary sexual traits. In male E...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Sørdalen TK,Halvorsen KT,Vøllestad LA,Moland E,Olsen EM

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Population dynamics of marine species that are sessile as adults are driven by oceanographic dispersal of larvae from spawning to nursery grounds. This is mediated by life-history traits such as the timing and frequency of spawning, larval behaviour and duration, and settlement success. Here, we use 1725 single nucleo...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Coscia I,Wilmes SB,Ironside JE,Goward-Brown A,O'Dea E,Malham SK,McDevitt AD,Robins PE

更新日期：2020-02-24 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