Breeding origin and migration pattern of dunlin (Calidris alpina) revealed by mitochondrial DNA analysis.

abstract：:Most emerging pathogens can infect multiple species, underlining the importance of understanding the ecological and evolutionary factors that allow some hosts to harbour greater infection prevalence and share pathogens with other species. However, our understanding of pathogen jumps is based primarily around viruses, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Becker DJ,Speer KA,Brown AM,Fenton MB,Washburne AD,Altizer S,Streicker DG,Plowright RK,Chizhikov VE,Simmons NB,Volokhov DV

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Firmly rooted as we are in the genomic era, it can seem incredible that as recently as 1974, Lewontin declared, 'we know virtually nothing about the genetic changes that occur in species formation'. To the contrary, we now know the genetic architecture of phenotypic differences and reproductive isolation between speci...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sweigart A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common groundsel, Senecio vulgaris (Asteraceae), is a highly selfing semelparous ephemeral weed that belongs to the few plant species in central Europe capable of growing, flowering and fruiting all year round. In temperate climates, flowering S. vulgaris cohorts were found to appear up to three times per year. Using ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Haldimann P,Steinger T,Müller-Schärer H

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in five agricultural field sites of different management intensities were studied. Variable regions of the ribosomal RNA genes were used to detect and identify AMF directly within colonized roots. Roots from a continuous maize monoculture showed low AMF diversity, in a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hijri I,Sýkorová Z,Oehl F,Ineichen K,Mäder P,Wiemken A,Redecker D

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The grey wolf (Canis lupus) and coyote (C. latrans) are highly mobile carnivores that disperse over great distances in search of territories and mates. Previous genetic studies have shown little geographical structure in either species. However, population genetic structure is also influenced by past isolation events ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vila C,Amorim IR,Leonard JA,Posada D,Castroviejo J,Petrucci-Fonseca F,Crandall KA,Ellegren H,Wayne RK

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interacting species of pollinator-host systems, especially the obligate ones, are sensitive to habitat fragmentation, due to the nature of mutual dependence. Comparative studies of genetic structure can provide insights into how habitat fragmentation contributes to patterns of genetic divergence among populations of t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Liu M,Zhang J,Chen Y,Compton SG,Chen XY

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arion vulgaris (syn. A. lusitanicus) is the most destructive pest slug in Europe. The species has been regarded a classic case of an ongoing biological invasion with negative economic and ecological impact in many European countries, but this status has recently been contested. In this study, we assessed mitochondrial...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zemanova MA,Knop E,Heckel G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New methods for better identification of timber geographical origin would constitute an important technical element in the forest industry, for phytosanitary certification procedures or in the chain of custody developed for the certification of timber from sustainably managed forests. In the case of the European white...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Deguilloux MF,Pemonge MH,Bertel L,Kremer A,Petit RJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating complex parasitic life cycles is important for understanding the major fitness components that drive the evolution of host-parasite systems. The rare condition of heterotrophic heteronomy, in which the sexes utilize disparate host taxa, is a poorly understood complex parasitic lifestyle. One of only two ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hayward A,McMahon DP,Kathirithamby J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies found fish egg-specific bacterial communities that changed over the course of embryogenesis, suggesting an interaction between the developing host and its microbiota. Indeed, single-strain infections demonstrated that the virulence of opportunistic bacteria is influenced by environmental factors and hos...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wilkins LG,Fumagalli L,Wedekind C

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2005, advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized biological science. The analysis of environmental DNA through the use of specific gene markers such as species-specific DNA barcodes has been a key application of next-generation sequencing technologies in ecological and environmental ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Shokralla S,Spall JL,Gibson JF,Hajibabaei M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the genetic structure of tropical bird populations is important for assessing potential genetic effects of future habitat fragmentation and for testing hypotheses about evolutionary mechanisms promoting diversification. Here we used 10 microsatellite DNA loci to describe levels of genetic differentiation f...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Francisco MR,Gibbs HL,Galetti M,Lunardi VO,Galetti PM Jr

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent region-wide study determined that the central California coyote (Canis latrans) population was genetically subdivided according to habitat bioregions, supporting the hypothesis that coyotes exhibit a dispersal bias toward their natal habitat type. Here, we further investigated this hypothesis using radio-coll...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sacks BN,Mitchell BR,Williams CL,Ernest HB

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:Determining the structure of bacterial communities and their response to stimuli is key to understanding community function and the interactions that occur between micro-organisms and the environment. However, bacterial communities often comprise complex assemblages of large numbers of different bacterial populations....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Holben WE,Harris D

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Landscape features are known to alter the spatial genetic variation of aboveground organisms. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the genetic structure of belowground organisms also responds to landscape structure. Microsatellite markers were used to carry out a landscape genetic study of two endogeic earthworm specie...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dupont L,Torres-Leguizamon M,René-Corail P,Mathieu J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation to new environments often occurs in the face of gene flow. Under these conditions, gene flow and recombination can impede adaptation by breaking down linkage disequilibrium between locally adapted alleles. Theory predicts that this decay can be halted or slowed if adaptive alleles are tightly linked in regi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Samuk K,Owens GL,Delmore KE,Miller SE,Rennison DJ,Schluter D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agroforestry ecosystems may be an important resource for conservation and sustainable use of tropical trees, but little is known of the genetic diversity they contain. Inga edulis, a widespread indigenous fruit tree in South America, is used as a model to assess the maintenance of genetic diversity in five planted vs....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hollingsworth PM,Dawson IK,Goodall-Copestake WP,Richardson JE,Weber JC,Sotelo Montes C,Pennington RT

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine plays essential biological roles, but excessive amounts produce cellular oxidative stress. Cysteine metabolism is mainly mediated by the enzymes cysteine dioxygenase and γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase, respectively coded by the genes CDO1 and GCLC. Here we test a new hypothesis posing that the synthesis of the...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rodríguez-Martínez S,Márquez R,Inácio Â,Galván I

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As populations diverge many processes can shape genomic patterns of differentiation. Regions of high differentiation can arise due to divergent selection acting on selected loci, genetic hitchhiking of nearby loci, or through repeated selection against deleterious alleles (linked background selection); this divergence...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lehnert SJ,Kess T,Bentzen P,Clément M,Bradbury IR

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-tailed bats Mystacina tuberculata were widespread throughout the forest that dominated prehuman New Zealand, but extensive deforestation has restricted them to scattered populations in forest fragments. In a previous study, the species' intraspecific phylogeny was investigated using multiple mitochondrial gene s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lloyd BD

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Heliconius butterflies, it has been proposed that speciation occurs through a combination of divergence in ecological habitat preferences and mimetic colour patterns. Here we test this hypothesis by investigating a parapatric form of the widespread species Heliconius erato. Mendelian (colour patterns) and molecular...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Arias CF,Muñoz AG,Jiggins CD,Mavárez J,Bermingham E,Linares M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corals play a key role in ocean ecosystems and carbonate balance, but their molecular response to ocean acidification remains unclear. The only previous whole-transcriptome study (Moya et al. Molecular Ecology, 2012; 21, 2440) documented extensive disruption of gene expression, particularly of genes encoding skeletal ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moya A,Huisman L,Forêt S,Gattuso JP,Hayward DC,Ball EE,Miller DJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Zealand's (NZ) geographical isolation, extensive coastline and well-characterized oceanography offer a valuable system for marine biogeographical research. Here we use mtDNA control region sequences in the abundant endemic sea-star Patiriella regularis to test the following literature-based predictions: that coast...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Waters JM,Roy MS

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A breakdown of self-incompatibility (SI) followed by a shift to selfing is commonly observed in the evolution of flowering plants. Both are expected to reduce the levels of heterozygosity and genetic diversity. However, breakdown of SI should most strongly affect the region of the SI locus (S-locus) because of the rel...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Haudry A,Zha HG,Stift M,Mable BK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widely distributed taxa provide an opportunity to compare biogeographic responses to climatic fluctuations on multiple continents and to investigate speciation. We conducted the most geographically and genomically comprehensive study to date of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the world's most widely distributed wild terr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Statham MJ,Murdoch J,Janecka J,Aubry KB,Edwards CJ,Soulsbury CD,Berry O,Wang Z,Harrison D,Pearch M,Tomsett L,Chupasko J,Sacks BN

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from 25 blue tits Parus caeruleus sampled from two populations of the Grenoble region (France) was assayed for polymorphism with 17 restriction endonucleases. Nine genotypes were found. Several mtDNA genotypes were also analysed by amplification via the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and dir...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Taberlet P,Meyer A,Bouvet J

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting and controlling infectious disease epidemics is a major challenge facing the management of agriculture, human and wildlife health. Co-evolutionarily derived patterns of local adaptation among pathogen populations have the potential to generate variation in disease epidemiology; however, studies of local ada...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Parratt SR,Barrès B,Penczykowski RM,Laine AL

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation supplies the raw material for adaptation, evolution and survival of populations and has therefore been a key focus of conservation biology ever since its foundation (Soulé 1985). In previous decades, the neutral component of genetic diversity (generated by mutation and shaped by drift) has been the s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ficetola GF,Bonin AL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00