A molecular phylogenetic analysis of diversification in Amazonian Anolis lizards.

abstract：:Conspecific brood parasitism allows females to exploit other females' nests and enhance their reproductive output. Here, we test a recent theoretical model of how host females gain inclusive fitness from brood parasitism. High levels of relatedness between host and parasitizer can be maintained either by: (a) kin reco...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hervey SD,Barnas AF,Stechmann TJ,Rockwell RF,Ellis-Felege SN,Darby BJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive species' success may depend strongly on the genetic resources they maintain through the invasion process. We ask how many introductions have occurred in the North American weed Centaurea stoebe micranthos (Asteraceae), and explore whether genetic diversity and population structure have changed as a result of ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Marrs RA,Sforza R,Hufbauer RA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nested clade phylogeographic analysis (NCPA) has become a popular method for reconstructing the history of populations across species ranges. Ever since its invention in 1995, criticisms have been formulated, but the method, which has been regularly updated, continues to attract investigators. Molecular Ecology has pu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Petit RJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput sequencing approaches have enabled characterizations of the community composition of numerous gut microbial communities, which in turn has enhanced interest in their diversity and functional relationships in different groups of vertebrates. Although fishes represent the greatest taxonomic and ecologica...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Clements KD,Angert ER,Montgomery WL,Choat JH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of spatially explicit models of population dynamics to fisheries management and the design marine reserve network systems has been limited due to a lack of empirical estimates of larval dispersal. Here we compared assignment tests and parentage analysis for examining larval retention and connectivity u...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Saenz-Agudelo P,Jones GP,Thorrold SR,Planes S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation of DNA methylation is thought to play an important role for rapid adjustments of plant populations to dynamic environmental conditions, thus compensating for the relatively slow response time of genetic adaptations. However, genetic and epigenetic variation of wild plant populations has not yet been directly...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schulz B,Eckstein RL,Durka W

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Mapping the genes responsible for natural variation and divergence is a challenging task. Many studies have mapped genes to genomic regions or generated lists of candidates, but few studies have implicated specific genes with a high standard of evidence. I propose that combining recent advances in genomic engineering ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Turner TL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its inherent costs, sexual reproduction is ubiquitous in nature, and the mechanisms to protect it from a competitive displacement by asexuality remain unclear. Popular mutation-based explanations, like the Muller's ratchet and the Kondrashov's hatchet, assume that purifying selection may not halt the accumulat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kočí J,Röslein J,Pačes J,Kotusz J,Halačka K,Koščo J,Fedorčák J,Iakovenko N,Janko K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologists are increasingly interested in quantifying consumer diets based on food DNA in dietary samples and high-throughput sequencing of marker genes. It is tempting to assume that food DNA sequence proportions recovered from diet samples are representative of consumer's diet proportions, despite the fact that capt...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Thomas AC,Jarman SN,Haman KH,Trites AW,Deagle BE

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas), a bivalve species originally native to the Black and Caspian seas, has invaded Ireland in the last decade. Five microsatellite loci were used to investigate genetic diversity and population structure in 10 populations across Europe (Ireland, UK, the Netherlands and Roma...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Astanei I,Gosling E,Wilson J,Powell E

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms underlying complex social behaviours such as dominance are largely unknown. Studying the cooperatively breeding African cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher, we show that dominant females were similar to dominant males in dominance behaviour, high testosterone levels and brain arginine vasotocin exp...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Aubin-Horth N,Desjardins JK,Martei YM,Balshine S,Hofmann HA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of species diversity to emergent, ecological properties of communities is increasingly appreciated, but the importance of within-species genetic diversity for analogous emergent properties of populations is only just becoming apparent. Here, the properties and effects of genetic variation on predation r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Koh KS,Matz C,Tan CH,LE HL,Rice SA,Marshall DJ,Steinberg PD,Kjelleberg S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the phylogenetic relationships among the three stone pine species, Pinus cembra, P. sibirica, and P. pumila, using chloroplast microsatellites and mitochondrial nad1 intron 2 sequences. The three chloroplast microsatellite loci combined into a total of 18 haplotypes. Fourteen haplotypes were detected in 15 ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gugerli F,Senn J,Anzidei M,Madaghiele A,Büchler U,Sperisen C,Vendramin GG

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic variation across a species' range is an important factor in speciation and conservation, yet searching for general patterns and underlying causes remains challenging. While the majority of comparisons between central and marginal populations have revealed a general central-marginal (C-M) decline in genetic...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Guo Q

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogeographical history of the rare marsh orchid Anacamptis palustris (Orchidaceae) was reconstructed using highly polymorphic chloroplast minisatellite and microsatellite loci. Allelic variation at chloroplast microsatellite loci was due to length variation in poly(A/T) repeats and was informative on a regional...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cozzolino S,Cafasso D,Pellegrino G,Musacchio A,Widmer A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with maternally inherited Wolbachia bacteria may have dramatic influences on reproductive traits and speciation patterns of their hosts. We here show that in the beetle genus Altica, infection has influenced phylogenetic patterns of the host's mtDNA and different strains led to repeated selective sweeps. By...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jäckel R,Mora D,Dobler S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation due to both geological barriers and range contractions during the Pleistocene glacial maxima has been an important cause of diversification of arid-adapted species in the North American deserts. Tree lizards, Urosaurus ornatus, are distributed across much of the southwestern arid regions and can tolerate a w...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Haenel GJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the use of single nucleotide polymorphisms for evolutionary and population genetics. We tested the efficacy of one of the available single nucleotide polymorphism techniques, single-base extension, in distinguishing four cryptic species of Microtus. Sequence data were available for these s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Belfiore NM,Hoffman FG,Baker RJ,Dewoody JA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomics and bioinformatics have great potential to help address numerous topics in ecology and evolution. Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) can bridge genomics and molecular ecology because they can provide a means of accessing the gene space of almost any organism. We review how ESTs have been used in molecular ecology...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bouck A,Vision T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the factors that maintain genetic variation in natural populations is a foundational goal of evolutionary biology. To this end, population geneticists have developed a variety of models that can produce stable polymorphisms. In one of the earliest models, Owen () demonstrated that differences in selectio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Meisel RP

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:We investigated the potential for gene flow and genetic assimilation via hybridization between common and rare species of the terrestrial orchid genus Liparis, focusing specifically on sympatric and allopatric populations of the common Liparis kumokiri and the rare Liparis makinoana. We utilized analyses of genetic di...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chung MY,Nason JD,Chung MG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiomes of rhizocompartments (nodule endophytes, root endophytes, rhizosphere and root zone) in soya bean and alfalfa were analysed using high-throughput sequencing to investigate the interactions among legume species, microorganisms and soil types. A clear hierarchical filtration of microbiota by plants was o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Xiao X,Chen W,Zong L,Yang J,Jiao S,Lin Y,Wang E,Wei G

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allopolyploidization, that is, concomitant merging and doubling of two or more divergent genomes in a common nucleus/cytoplasm, is known to instantly alter genomewide transcriptome dynamics, a phenomenon referred to as "transcriptomic shock." However, the immediate effects of transcriptomic alteration in generating ph...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sun Y,Wu Y,Yang C,Sun S,Lin X,Liu L,Xu C,Wendel JF,Gong L,Liu B

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fragments were prepared from samples of Calonectris diomedea (Cory's shearwater, Aves) and Haemonchus contortus (Nematoda) DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using decamers containing two restriction enzyme sites as primers. Six of 19 studied RAPD fragments probably originat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rabouam C,Comes AM,Bretagnolle V V,Humbert JF,Periquet G,Bigot Y

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive ecological differentiation among sympatric populations is promoted by environmental heterogeneity, strong local selection and restricted gene flow. High gene flow, on the other hand, is expected to homogenize genetic variation among populations and therefore prevent local adaptation. Understanding how local a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Richter-Boix A,Quintela M,Kierczak M,Franch M,Laurila A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ips typographus and Pityogenes chalcographus are two sympatric Palearctic bark beetle species with wide distribution ranges. As both species are comparable in biology, life history, and habitat, including sharing the same host, Picea abies, they provide excellent models for applying a comparative approach in which to ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bertheau C,Schuler H,Arthofer W,Avtzis DN,Mayer F,Krumböck S,Moodley Y,Stauffer C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of non-native species may depend on the genetic resources maintained through the invasion process. The Coqui (Eleutherodactylus coqui), a frog endemic to Puerto Rico, was introduced to Hawaii in the late 1980s via the horticulture trade, and has become an aggressive invader. To explore whether genetic dive...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Peacock MM,Beard KH,O'Neill EM,Kirchoff VS,Peters MB

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Baja California region provides a natural setting for studying the early mechanisms of allopatric speciation in marine systems. Disjunct fish populations from several species that occur in the northern Gulf of California and northern Pacific coast of Baja California, but are absent from its southern shores, were p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bernardi G,Lape J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00