Predation shapes the impact of cancer on population dynamics and the evolution of cancer resistance.

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：:Currently, the effects of chronic, continuous low dose environmental irradiation on the mitochondrial genome of resident small mammals are unknown. Using the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) as a model system, we tested the hypothesis that approximately 50 generations of exposure to the Chernobyl environment has significa...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Baker RJ,Dickins B,Wickliffe JK,Khan FAA,Gaschak S,Makova KD,Phillips CD

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Pest species represent a major ongoing threat to global biodiversity. Effective management approaches are required that regulate pest numbers, while minimizing collateral damage to nontarget species. The Trojan Female Technique (TFT) was recently proposed as a prospective approach to biological pest control. The TFT d...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dowling DK,Tompkins DM,Gemmell NJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:The early phases of biological invasions are poorly understood. In particular, during the introduction, establishment, and possible lag phases, it is unclear to what extent evolution must take place for an introduced species to transition from established to expanding. In this study, we highlight three disparate data ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Marsico TD,Burt JW,Espeland EK,Gilchrist GW,Jamieson MA,Lindström L,Roderick GK,Swope S,Szűcs M,Tsutsui ND

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of postglacial range shifts could enhance our understanding of seaweed species' responses to climate change and hence facilitate the conservation of natural resources. However, the distribution dynamics and phylogeographic diversification of the commercially and ecologically important kelp Saccharina japonica ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Zhang J,Yao J,Hu ZM,Jueterbock A,Yotsukura N,Krupnova TN,Nagasato C,Duan D

更新日期：2019-01-12 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：: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：:Current natural populations face new interactions because of the re-emergence of ancient microbes and viruses. These risks come from the re-emergence of pathogens kept in laboratories or from pathogens that are retained in the permafrost, which become available upon thawing due to climate change. We here focus on the ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Houwenhuyse S,Macke E,Reyserhove L,Bulteel L,Decaestecker E

更新日期：2017-10-17 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：: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：:Heart disease is common in both humans and chimpanzees, manifesting typically as sudden cardiac arrest or progressive heart failure. Surprisingly, although chimpanzees are our closest evolutionary relatives, the major cause of heart disease is different in the two species. Histopathology data of affected chimpanzee he...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Varki N,Anderson D,Herndon JG,Pham T,Gregg CJ,Cheriyan M,Murphy J,Strobert E,Fritz J,Else JG,Varki A

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：: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：:To investigate the evolution of clinal variation in an invasive plant, we compared cold hardiness in the introduced saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima, Tamarix chinensis, and hybrids) and the native plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides subsp. monilifera). In a shadehouse in Colorado (41°N), we grew plants collected along ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Friedman JM,Roelle JE,Gaskin JF,Pepper AE,Manhart JR

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：: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：:Invertebrate pest invasions and outbreaks are associated with high social, economic, and ecological costs, and their significance will intensify with an increasing pressure on agricultural productivity as a result of human population growth and climate change. New molecular genetic and genomic techniques are available...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Kirk H,Dorn S,Mazzi D

更新日期：2013-04-24 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：: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：:Many populations are doomed to extinction, but little is known about how evolution contributes to their longevity. We address this by modeling an asexual population consisting of genotypes whose abundances change independently according to a system of continuous branching diffusions. Each genotype is characterized by ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gomulkiewicz R,Krone SM,Remien CH

更新日期：2017-03-17 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：:Drought is one of the most important selection pressures for forest trees in the context of climate change. Yet, the different evolutionary mechanisms, and their environmental drivers, by which certain populations become more drought tolerant than others is still little understood. We studied adaptation to drought in ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Csilléry K,Buchmann N,Fady B

更新日期：2020-06-17 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：:Although microbes have been evolving resistance to antimicrobials for millennia, the spread of resistance in pathogen populations calls for the development of new drugs and treatment strategies. We propose that successful, long-term resistance management requires a better understanding of how resistance evolves in the...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Perron GG,Inglis RF,Pennings PS,Cobey S

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：: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：:If the occurrence of cancer is the result of a random lottery among cells, then body mass, a surrogate for cells number, should predict cancer incidence. Despite some support in humans, this assertion does not hold over the range of different natural animal species where cancer incidence is known. Explaining the so-ca...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Roche B,Sprouffske K,Hbid H,Missé D,Thomas F

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Species distributions are rapidly changing as human globalization increasingly moves organisms to novel environments. In marine systems, species introductions are the result of a number of anthropogenic mechanisms, notably shipping, aquaculture/mariculture, the pet and bait trades, and the creation of canals. Marine i...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Blakeslee AMH,Manousaki T,Vasileiadou K,Tepolt CK

更新日期：2020-01-03 00:00:00