Genetic analysis of the mating system of the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) in New Zealand farmland.

abstract：:Palaeoclimatic events and biogeographical processes since the mid-Tertiary are believed to have strongly influenced the evolution and distribution of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of southeastern Australia. We examined the phylogeography of the temperate-adapted members of the Egernia whitii species group, a group ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chapple DG,Keogh JS,Hutchinson MN

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation is of key importance for a species' evolutionary potential, and its estimation is a major component of conservation studies. New DNA sequencing technologies have enabled the analysis of large portions of the genome in nonmodel species, promising highly accurate estimates of such population genetic pa...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lozier JD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Neotropical region represents one of the greatest biodiversity hot spots on earth. Despite its unparalleled biodiversity, regional comparative phylogeographic studies are still scarce, with most focusing on model clades (e.g. birds) and typically examining a handful of loci. Here, we apply a genome-wide comparativ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rincon-Sandoval M,Betancur-R R,Maldonado-Ocampo JA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization is known to be involved in a number of evolutionary processes, including species formation, and the generation of novel defence characteristics in plants. The genus Senecio of the Asteraceae family is highly speciose and has historically demonstrated significant levels of interspecific hybridization. The...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kirk H,Macel M,Klinkhamer PG,Vrieling K

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many ectothermic species are currently expanding their distributions polewards due to anthropogenic global warming. Molecular genetic mechanisms facilitating range expansion under these conditions are largely unknown, but understanding these could help mitigate expanding pests and disease vectors, or help explain why ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lancaster LT,Dudaniec RY,Chauhan P,Wellenreuther M,Svensson EI,Hansson B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic tissues, the major food source of many invertebrates and vertebrates, are well defended. Many defence traits in leaves are controlled via the jasmonate signalling pathway in which jasmonate acts as a hormone by binding to a receptor to activate responses that lead to increased resistance to invertebrate...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mafli A,Goudet J,Farmer EE

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niche conservatism has been proposed as the mechanism driving speciation in temperate montane clades through range fragmentation during climatic oscillations. Thus, a negative relationship between speciation rates and niche width is expected. Here, we test this prediction using American zopherine beetles. Our phylogen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Baselga A,Recuero E,Parra-Olea G,García-París M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 is a Gram-negative bacterium that grows in close association with plants. In common with a broad range of functionally similar bacteria it plays an important role in the turnover of organic matter and certain isolates can promote plant growth. Despite its environmental significance, the c...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gal M,Preston GM,Massey RC,Spiers AJ,Rainey PB

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the consequences of barriers, stream architecture and putative dispersal capability on levels of genetic differentiation among populations of the freshwater fish Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum. Seven polymorphic allozyme loci and sequences of a 498-bp fragment of the ATPase 6 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McGlashan DJ,Hughes JM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective population size (N(e)) is a key parameter to understand evolutionary processes and the viability of endangered populations as it determines the rate of genetic drift and inbreeding. Low Ne can lead to inbreeding depression and reduced population adaptability. In this study, we estimated contemporary N(e) usi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Baalsrud HT,Saether BE,Hagen IJ,Myhre AM,Ringsby TH,Pärn H,Jensen H

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formal testing of mating system theories with empirical data is important for evaluating the relative importance of different processes in shaping mating systems in wild populations. Here, we present a generally applicable probability modelling framework to test the role of local mate availability in determining a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Blyton MD,Banks SC,Peakall R,Lindenmayer DB

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of intrinsic barriers to gene flow is often neglected in empirical research on local adaptation and speciation with gene flow, for example when interpreting patterns observed in genome scans. However, we draw attention to the fact that, even with gene flow, divergent ecological selection may generate i...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kulmuni J,Westram AM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, coding molecules which play an important role in immune response, are the most polymorphic genes known in vertebrates. However, MHC polymorphism in some species is limited. MHC monomorphism at several MHC class I and II loci was previously reported for two neighbouring nor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Babik W,Durka W,Radwan J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity and fine-scale population structure in the lichen-forming ascomycete Xanthoria parietina was investigated using sequence variation in part of the intergenic spacer (IGS) and the complete internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of the nuclear ribosomal DNA. Sampling included 213 and 225 individuals,...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lindblom L,Ekman S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive skew - the extent to which reproduction is unevenly shared between individuals in a social group - varies greatly between and within animal species. In this study, we investigated how queens share parentage in polygynous (multiple queen) colonies of the Mediterranean ant Pheidole pallidula. We used highly...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Fournier D,Aron S,Keller L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of vacant habitat is a fundamental ecological process that affects the ability of species to persist and undergo range modifications in continually shifting landscapes. Thus, understanding factors that affect and limit colonization has important ecological and conservation implications. Epiphytic orchids ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Trapnell DW,Hamrick JL,Ishibashi CD,Kartzinel TR

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Greater prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) were once found throughout the tallgrass prairie of midwestern North America but over the last century these prairies have been lost or fragmented by human land use. As a consequence, many current populations of prairie-chickens have become isolated and small. Thi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Johnson JA,Toepfer JE,Dunn PO

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the contribution of different molecular processes to evolution and development is crucial for identifying the mechanisms of adaptation. Here, we used RNA-seq data to test the importance of alternative splicing and differential gene expression in a case of parallel adaptive evolution, the replicated postg...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jacobs A,Elmer KR

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate detection of offspring resulting from hybridization between individuals of distinct populations has a range of applications in conservation and population genetics. We assessed the hybrid identification efficiency of two methods (implemented in the STRUCTURE and NEWHYBRIDS programs) which are tailored to iden...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vähä JP,Primmer CR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of host-parasitoid associations can be tenuous using conventional methods. Molecular techniques are well placed to identify trophic links and resolve host-parasitoid associations. Establishment of the highly invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), outside Asia has p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gariepy TD,Haye T,Zhang J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facilitated by the intensification of global trading, the introduction and dispersal of species to areas in which they are historically non-native is nowadays common. From an evolutionary standpoint, invasions are paradoxical: not only non-native environments could be different from native ones for which introduced in...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Baltazar-Soares M,Blanchet S,Cote J,Tarkan AS,Záhorská E,Gozlan RE,Eizaguirre C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The facultative endosymbiont of aphids, Hamiltonella defensa, kills parasitoid wasp larvae, allowing aphid hosts to survive and reproduce. This protection may depend on toxins that are encoded by the genomes of H. defensa and of its bacteriophage (APSE). Strains of H. defensa vary in degree of protection conferred upo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Degnan PH,Moran NA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated genetic differentiation among populations of the clonal grass Elymus athericus, a common salt-marsh species occurring along the Wadden Sea coast of Europe. While E. athericus traditionally occurs in the high salt marsh, it recently also invaded lower parts of the marsh. In one of the first analyses of ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bockelmann AC,Reusch TB,Bijlsma R,Bakker JP

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation by adaptation increases divergence at neutral loci when natural selection against immigrants reduces the rate of gene flow between different habitats. This can occur early in the process of adaptive divergence and is a key feature of ecological speciation. Despite the ability of isolation by distance (IBD) a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Andrew RL,Ostevik KL,Ebert DP,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating how environmental features shape the genetic structure of populations is crucial for understanding how they are potentially adapted to their habitats, as well as for sound management. In this study, we assessed the relative importance of spatial distribution, ocean currents and sea surface temperature (S...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Benestan L,Quinn BK,Maaroufi H,Laporte M,Clark FK,Greenwood SJ,Rochette R,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The confounding effects of population structure complicate efforts to identify regions of the genome under the influence of selection in natural populations. Here we test for evidence of selection in three genes involved in vertebrate immune function - the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), interferon gamma (IFNG...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Worley K,Carey J,Veitch A,Coltman DW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mound-building mouse Mus spicilegus possesses a unique behaviour amongst mice. It constructs large earthen mounds and associated nesting chambers which serve to store food for immature individuals during the winter nesting period. We have used genetic analysis of four autosomal and four X-linked microsatellite loc...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Garza JC,Dallas J,Duryadi D,Gerasimov S,Croset H,Boursot P

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how the environment shapes genetic variation provides critical insight about the evolution of local adaptation in natural populations. At multiple spatial scales and multiple geographic contexts within a single species, such information could address a number of fundamental questions about the scale of l...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gugger PF,Fitz-Gibbon ST,Albarrán-Lara A,Wright JW,Sork VL

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:As natural selection must act on underlying genetic variation, discovering the number and location of loci under the influence of selection is imperative towards understanding adaptive divergence in evolving populations. Studies employing genome scans have hypothesized that the action of divergent selection should red...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rogers SM,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the greatest threats to the long-term viability of migrating plant species is the loss of genetic diversity due to founder effects. Populations can expand as a response to climate change, but it is uncertain if long-lived plant species can maintain sufficient genetic diversity at the leading edge of migrating p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pluess AR

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00