Sex-specific effects of experimental ectoparasite infestation on telomere length in great tit nestlings.

abstract：:Host-associated differentiation (HAD) is considered a step towards ecological speciation and an important mechanism promoting diversification in phytophagous insects. Although the number of documented cases of HAD is increasing, these still represent only a small fraction of species and feeding guilds among phytophago...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Dorchin N,Scott ER,Clarkin CE,Luongo MP,Jordan S,Abrahamson WG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantification of repeatability has enabled behavioural and evolutionary ecologists to assess the heritable potential of traits. For behavioural traits that vary across life, age-related variation should be accounted for to prevent biasing the microevolutionary estimate of interest. Moreover, to gain a mechanistic...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Delaney DM,Hoekstra LA,Janzen FJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyandry is perhaps the most puzzling component of mating systems because the fitness benefits for females of mating with more than one male during lifetime are poorly understood. The occurrence and extent of polyandry varies considerably both among and within species, and a positive association between polyandry and...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Torres-Vila LM

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular species delimitation is increasingly being used to discover and illuminate species level diversity, and a number of methods have been developed. Here, we compare the ability of two molecular species delimitation methods to recover song-delimited species in the Cicadetta montana cryptic species complex throug...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wade EJ,Hertach T,Gogala M,Trilar T,Simon C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and phenotypic mosaics, in which various phenotypes and different genomic regions show discordant patterns of species or population divergence, offer unique opportunities to study the role of ancestral and introgressed genetic variation in phenotypic evolution. Here, we investigated the evolution of discordant...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Schweizer M,Warmuth V,Alaei Kakhki N,Aliabadian M,Förschler M,Shirihai H,Suh A,Burri R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Egg quality may mediate maternal allocation strategies according to progeny sex. In vertebrates, carotenoids have important physiological roles during embryonic and post-natal life, but the consequences of variation in yolk carotenoids for offspring phenotype in oviparous species are largely unknown. In yellow-legged ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Romano M,Caprioli M,Ambrosini R,Rubolini D,Fasola M,Saino N

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the genetic basis of parallel phenotypic evolution provides insight into the process of adaptation and evolutionary constraint. White clover (Trifolium repens) has evolved climate-associated adaptive clines in cyanogenesis (the ability to produce hydrogen cyanide upon tissue damage) in several world region...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Kooyers NJ,Olsen KM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A challenge of life-history theory is to explain why animal body size does not continue to increase, given various advantages of larger size. In birds, body size of nestlings and the number of nestlings produced (brood size) have occasionally been shown to be constrained by higher predation on larger nestlings and tho...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Brown CR,Brown MB

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera), hearing organs are essential in mate detection. Male tettigoniids usually produce calling songs by tegminal stridulation, whereas females approach the males phonotactically. This unidirectional communication system is the most common one among tettigoniids. In several tettigoni...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Strauß J,Lehmann AW,Lehmann GU

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species of the sexually deceptive genus Ophrys are characterized by insect-like flowers. Their form has been traditionally considered to play an important role in pollinator attraction and manipulation. Yet, the evolution of the floral form remains insufficiently understood. We hypothesize that pollinator-mediate...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Rakosy D,Cuervo M,Paulus HF,Ayasse M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants exist across varying biotic and abiotic environments, including variation in the composition of soil microbial communities. The ecological effects of soil microbes on plant communities are well known, whereas less is known about their importance for plant evolutionary processes. In particular, the net effects o...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Fitzpatrick CR,Mustafa Z,Viliunas J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through simulation, Whitlock showed that when all the alternatives have the same effect size, the weighted z-test is superior to both unweighted z-test and Fisher's method when combining P-values from independent studies. In this paper, we show that under the same situation, the generalized Fisher method due to Lancas...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Chen Z

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on ecological and metabolic arguments, some authors predict that adaptation to novel, harsh environments should involve alleles showing negative (diminishing return) epistasis and/or that it should be mediated in part by evolution of maternal effects. Although the first prediction has been supported in microbes,...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Vijendravarma RK,Kawecki TJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent invasion by self-replicating socially parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, of colonies of the neighbouring African subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata represents an opportunity to study evolution of intraspecific parasitism in real time. As honeybee workers compete pheromonally for rep...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Dietemann V,Neumann P,Härtel S,Pirk CW,Crewe RM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Which conditions favour the evolution of hermaphroditism or separate sexes? One classical hypothesis states that an organism's mode of locomotion (if any) when searching for a mate should influence breeding system evolution. We used published phylogenies to reconstruct evolutionary changes in adult mate-search efficie...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Eppley SM,Jesson LK

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome scans have been used in the studies of ecological speciation to find genomic regions ('outlier loci') showing reduced gene flow between divergent populations/species. High-throughput sequencing ('454') offers new opportunities in this field via transcriptome sequencing. Divergent ecotypes of the marine gastropo...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Galindo J,Grahame JW,Butlin RK

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of endemic South American canid fauna has been traditionally linked with the rise of the Isthmus of Panama, suggesting that diversification of the dog fauna on this continent occurred very rapidly. Nevertheless, despite its obvious biogeographic appeal, the tempo of Canid evolution in South America has neve...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Perini FA,Russo CA,Schrago CG

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some female pollinating fig wasps (foundresses) re-emerge from figs after oviposition/pollination. We investigated why this occurs in the mutualism between the gynodioecious Ficus montana and Liporrhopalum tentacularis. Re-emergence increased with foundress density in figs and some foundresses oviposited in two male f...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Moore JC,Dunn AM,Compton SG,Hatcher MJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain size varies greatly at all taxonomic levels. Feeding ecology, life history and sexual selection have been proposed as key components in generating contemporary diversity in brain size across vertebrates. Analyses of brain size evolution have, however, been limited to lineages where males predominantly compete fo...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Tsuboi M,Lim AC,Ooi BL,Yip MY,Chong VC,Ahnesjö I,Kolm N

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraspecific cooperation and interspecific mutualism often feature a marked asymmetry in the scope for exploitation. Cooperation may nevertheless persist despite one-sided opportunities for cheating, provided that the partner vulnerable to exploitation has sufficient control over the duration of interaction. The effe...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Johnstone RA,Bshary R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic comparative methods are extremely commonly used in evolutionary biology. In this paper, I highlight some of the problems that are frequently encountered in comparative analyses and review how they can be fixed. In broad terms, the problems boil down to a lack of appreciation of the underlying assumptions ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Freckleton RP

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable evidence for an adaptive role of inversions, but how their genetic content evolves and affects the subsequent evolution of chromosomal polymorphism remains controversial. Here, we track how life-history traits, chromosomal arrangements and 22 microsatellites, within and outside inversions, change...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Santos J,Pascual M,Fragata I,Simões P,Santos MA,Lima M,Marques A,Lopes-Cunha M,Kellen B,Balanyà J,Rose MR,Matos M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenic and epigenetic effects of environmental stressors and their transgenerational consequences are of interest to evolutionary biologists because they can amplify natural genetic variation. We studied the effect of parental exposure to radioactive contamination on offspring development in lesser marsh grasshoppe...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Beasley DE,Bonisoli-Alquati A,Welch SM,Møller AP,Mousseau TA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical studies of sexual selection typically focus on one of the two mechanisms of sexual selection without integrating these into a description of total sexual selection, or study total sexual selection without quantifying the contributions of all of the mechanisms of sexual selection. However, this can provide an...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Hunt J,Breuker CJ,Sadowski JA,Moore AJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Warning coloration is a widespread strategy to alert predators about prey unprofitability. The success of this strategy partly depends on predators being able to learn and recognize certain signals as indicators of toxicity, and theory predicts that this is easier if signals converge on similar colours. However, the d...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Arenas LM,Stevens M

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:Sexual selection drives fundamental evolutionary processes such as trait elaboration and speciation. Despite this importance, there are surprisingly few examples of genes unequivocally responsible for variation in sexually selected phenotypes. This lack of information inhibits our ability to predict phenotypic change ...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wilkinson GS,Breden F,Mank JE,Ritchie MG,Higginson AD,Radwan J,Jaquiery J,Salzburger W,Arriero E,Barribeau SM,Phillips PC,Renn SC,Rowe L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects harbour a wild diversity of symbionts that can spread and persist within populations by providing benefits to their host. The pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum maintains a facultative symbiosis with the bacterium Hamiltonella defensa, which provides enhanced resistance against the aphid parasitoid Aphidius ervi. A...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Dion E,Zélé F,Simon JC,Outreman Y

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which genotypic variation at a priori identified candidate genes can explain variation in complex phenotypes is a major debate in evolutionary biology. Whereas some high-profile genes such as the MHC or MC1R clearly do account for variation in ecologically relevant characters, many complex phenotypes suc...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Wenzel MA,Piertney SB

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the availability of sperm limits female reproductive success, competition for sperm, may be an important broker of sexual selection. This is because sperm limitation can increase the variance in female reproductive success, resulting in strong selection on females to compete for limited fertilization opportunitie...

journal_title：Journal of evolutionary biology

authors： Marshall DJ,Evans JP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00