Extra-pair paternity in waved albatrosses.

abstract：:The mitochondrial pseudo-control region was analysed in five species of Aquila eagles. Indels caused great length differences in the nonrepetitive part of the region, whereas tandem repeat units were highly conserved among the genus. In a reconstructed phylogenetic tree, the clade formed by A. clanga and A. pomarina s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Väli U

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now common for population geneticists to estimate FST for a large number of loci across the genome, before testing for selected loci as being outliers to the FST distribution. One surprising result of such FST scans is the often high proportion (>1% and sometimes >10%) of outliers detected, and this is often int...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bierne N,Roze D,Welch JJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metapopulation genetic models consider that colonization and dispersal are distinct behaviours. However, whether colonization and dispersal indeed reflect different biological processes in nature is unclear. One possibility to test this assumption is to assess patterns of autosomal and mitochondrial genetic structure ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kerth G,Petit E

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent phenotypes are testament to the role of natural selection in evolution. However, little is known about whether convergence in phenotype extends to convergence at the molecular level. We use the independent losses of floral anthocyanins in columbines (Aquilegia) to determine the degree of molecular convergen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Whittall JB,Voelckel C,Kliebenstein DJ,Hodges SA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, the last 20 years have seen a spectacular increase in accidental introductions of marine species, but it has recently been suggested that both the actual number of invaders and their impacts have been seriously underestimated because of the prevalence of sibling species in marine habitats. The red alga Poly...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McIvor L,Maggs CA,Provan J,Stanhope MJ

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex identification is a problem in research and conservation. It can often be solved using a DNA test but this is only an option if a sex-specific marker is available. Such markers can be identified using the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technique. This is usually a taxonomic method, as it produces a ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Griffiths R,Orr K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossing over is well known to have profound effects on patterns of genetic diversity and genome evolution. Far less direct attention has been paid to another distinct outcome of meiotic recombination: noncrossover gene conversion (NCGC). Crossing over and NCGC both shuffle combinations of alleles, and this degradatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Korunes KL,Noor MA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary mechanisms generating the tremendous biodiversity of islands have long fascinated evolutionary biologists. Genetic drift and divergent selection are predicted to be strong on islands and both could drive population divergence and speciation. Alternatively, strong genetic drift may preclude adaptation....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Funk WC,Lovich RE,Hohenlohe PA,Hofman CA,Morrison SA,Sillett TS,Ghalambor CK,Maldonado JE,Rick TC,Day MD,Polato NR,Fitzpatrick SW,Coonan TJ,Crooks KR,Dillon A,Garcelon DK,King JL,Boser CL,Gould N,Andelt WF

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When similar selection acts on the same traits in multiple species or populations, parallel evolution can result in similar phenotypic changes, yet the underlying molecular architecture of parallel phenotypic divergence can be variable. Maternal effects can influence evolution at ecological timescales and facilitate l...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Shu L,Laurila A,Suter MJ,Räsänen K

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasions that involve well-documented rapid adaptations to new environments provide unequalled opportunities for testing evolutionary hypotheses. Mikania micrantha Kunth (Asteraceae), a perennial herbaceous vine native to tropical Central and South America, successfully invaded tropical Asia in the early 2...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Yang M,He Z,Huang Y,Lu L,Yan Y,Hong L,Shen H,Liu Y,Guo Q,Jiang L,Zhang Y,Greenberg AJ,Zhou R,Ge X,Wu CI,Shi S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation is a major force affecting demography and genetic structure of wild populations, especially in agricultural landscapes. The land snail Cepaea nemoralis (L.) was selected to investigate the impact of habitat fragmentation on the spatial genetic structure of an organism with limited dispersal abili...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schweiger O,Frenzel M,Durka W

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：: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：:Although most vertebrates reproduce sexually, a small number of fishes, amphibians and reptiles are known in which reproduction is asexual, i.e. without meiotic recombination. In fishes, these so-called unisexual lineages usually comprise only females and utilize co-occurring males of a related sexual species to repro...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schmidt DJ,Bond NR,Adams M,Hughes JM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of sequence polymorphism from individual mitochondrial genes to infer past demography has recently proved controversial because of the recurrence of selective sweeps acting over genes and the need for unlinked multilocus data sets. However, comparative analyses using several species for one gene and/or multipl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Plouviez S,Shank TM,Faure B,Daguin-Thiebaut C,Viard F,Lallier FH,Jollivet D

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes) is an entomopathogenic fungus specific to formicine ants (Formicinae, Hymenoptera). Previous works have shown that the carpenter ant Camponotus leonardi acts as the principal host with occasional infections of ants from the genus Polyrhachis (sister genus of Campo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kobmoo N,Mongkolsamrit S,Tasanathai K,Thanakitpipattana D,Luangsa-Ard JJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a de novo assembly of a eukaryote transcriptome using 454 pyrosequencing data. The Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) is a prominent species in population biology but had no previous genomic data. Sequencing runs using two normalized complementary DNA collections from...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vera JC,Wheat CW,Fescemyer HW,Frilander MJ,Crawford DL,Hanski I,Marden JH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oryza rufipogon Griff. is the most agriculturally important but seriously endangered wild rice species. To better estimate how genetic structure can be used to obtained a conservation perspective of the species, genetic variability at six polymorphic microsatellite DNA loci was examined. High levels of genetic variabi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gao L

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital gene expression (DGE) analysis offers a route to gene discovery which by-passes the need to develop bespoke arrays for nonmodel species, and is therefore a potentially valuable tool for molecular ecologists. Scottish blackface sheep, which vary in resistance to the common abomasal parasitic nematode Teladorsag...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pemberton JM,Beraldi D,Craig BH,Hopkins J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite no obvious barriers to gene flow in the marine realm, environmental variation and ecological specializations can lead to genetic differentiation in highly mobile predators. Here, we investigated the genetic structure of the harbour porpoise over the entire species distribution range in western Palearctic water...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Fontaine MC,Roland K,Calves I,Austerlitz F,Palstra FP,Tolley KA,Ryan S,Ferreira M,Jauniaux T,Llavona A,Öztürk B,Öztürk AA,Ridoux V,Rogan E,Sequeira M,Siebert U,Vikingsson GA,Borrell A,Michaux JR,Aguilar A

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deadly poisonous Amanita phalloides is common along the west coast of North America. Death cap mushrooms are especially abundant in habitats around the San Francisco Bay, California, but the species grows as far south as Los Angeles County and north to Vancouver Island, Canada. At different times, various authors ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pringle A,Adams RI,Cross HB,Bruns TD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological and genetic factors determining the extent of introgression between species in secondary contact zones remain poorly understood. Here, we investigate the relative importance of isolating barriers and the demographic expansion of invasive Mytilus galloprovincialis on the magnitude and the direction of in...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Saarman NP,Pogson GH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a broad survey of Drosophila melanogaster population samples, levels of abdominal pigmentation were found to be highly variable and geographically differentiated. A strong positive correlation was found between dark pigmentation and high altitude, suggesting adaptation to specific environments. DNA sequence polymor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pool JE,Aquadro CF

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years microsatellites have become one of the most popular molecular markers used with applications in many different fields. High polymorphism and the relative ease of scoring represent the two major features that make microsatellites of large interest for many genetic studies. The major drawback of mi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zane L,Bargelloni L,Patarnello T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between parasites and their hosts are intimate, dynamic and complex; the evolution of one is inevitably linked to the other. Despite multiple origins of parasitism in the Cnidaria, only parasites belonging to the Myxozoa are characterized by a complex life cycle, alternating between fish and inverteb...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Holzer AS,Bartošová-Sojková P,Born-Torrijos A,Lövy A,Hartigan A,Fiala I

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain further information on the polyploid dynamics of the the Dactylorhiza incarnata/maculata polyploid complex and the origin of the allotetraploid D. sphagnicola (Orchidaceae), plastid DNA variation was studied in 400 plants from from Sweden and elsewhere in Europe and Asia Minor by means of polymerase chain re...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hedrén M

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Tropical rainforest trees typically occur in low population densities and rely on animals for cross-pollination. It is of conservation interest therefore to understand how rainforest fragmentation may alter the pollination and breeding structure of remnant trees. Previous studies of the Amazonian tree Dinizia excelsa ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dick CW,Etchelecu G,Austerlitz F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotton plants accumulate phytotoxins, including gossypol and related sesquiterpene aldehydes, to resist insect herbivores and pathogens. To counteract these defensive plant secondary metabolites, cotton bollworms (Helicoverpa armigera) elevate their production of detoxification enzymes, including cytochrome P450 monoo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Tao XY,Xue XY,Huang YP,Chen XY,Mao YB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weedy rice (Oryza spp.), a weedy relative of cultivated rice (O. sativa), infests and persists in cultivated rice fields worldwide. Many weedy rice populations have evolved similar adaptive traits, considered part of the 'agricultural weed syndrome', making this an ideal model to study the genetic basis of parallel ev...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Huang Z,Young ND,Reagon M,Hyma KE,Olsen KM,Jia Y,Caicedo AL

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00