Complex patterns of colonization and refugia revealed for European grayling Thymallus thymallus, based on complete sequencing of the mitochondrial DNA control region.

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：:Natural selection, random processes and gene flow are known to generate sex ratio variations among sexually polymorphic plant populations. In gynodioecious species, in which hermaphrodites and females coexist, the relative effect of these processes on the maintenance of sex polymorphism is still up for debate. The aim...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： De Cauwer I,Dufay M,Hornoy B,Courseaux A,Arnaud JF

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral reefs in the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) are among the most isolated in the world. This isolation has resulted in relatively low species diversity but comparatively high endemism. The dominant reef-building corals of the TEP are the Pocillopora corals, a ubiquitous Indo-Pacific genus commonly regarded as infe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Combosch DJ,Guzman HM,Schuhmacher H,Vollmer SV

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：: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：:Marine metapopulations often exhibit subtle population structure that can be difficult to detect. Given recent advances in high-throughput sequencing, an emerging question is whether various genotyping approaches, in concert with improved sampling designs, will substantially improve our understanding of genetic struct...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： D'Aloia CC,Andrés JA,Bogdanowicz SM,McCune AR,Harrison RG,Buston PM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Army ants have long been suspected to represent an independent origin of multiple queen-mating in the social Hymenoptera. Using microsatellite markers, we show that queens of the African army ant Dorylus (Anomma) molestus have the highest absolute (17.3) and effective (17.5) queen-mating frequencies reported so far fo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kronauer DJ,Schoning C,Pedersen JS,Boomsma JJ,Gadau J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of coral reefs is due to obligate mutualistic symbioses involving invertebrates and photosynthetic dinoflagellate symbionts belonging to the genus Symbiodinium. In the Caribbean, the vast majority of octocorals and other invertebrate hosts associate with Symbiodinium clade B, and more selectively, with a s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Santos SR,Shearer TL,Hannes AR,Coffroth MA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular markers, such as mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite loci, are widely studied to assess population genetics and phylogeography; however, the selective neutrality of these markers is increasingly being questioned. Given the importance of molecular markers in fisheries science and conservation, we evaluated t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McCusker MR,Bentzen P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many amphibian species are known to form leks during breeding season, yet it has seldom been tested which evolutionary forces are likely to act on lek formation in this taxon. We tested the kin selection hypothesis for lek formation by using eight variable microsatellite loci to compare the genetic relationship of 203...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Knopp T,Heimovirta M,Kokko H,Merilä J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants that produce dust seeds can recruit fungi to meet their earliest requirements for carbon and other nutrients. This germination strategy, termed initial mycoheterotrophy, has been well investigated among the orchid family, but there are numerous other plant lineages that have independently evolved mycoheterotrop...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hynson NA,Weiß M,Preiss K,Gebauer G,Treseder KK

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral reefs belong to the most diverse ecosystems on our planet. The diversity in coloration and lifestyles of coral reef fishes makes them a particularly promising system to study the role of visual communication and adaptation. Here, we investigated the evolution of visual pigment genes (opsins) in damselfish (Pomac...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Stieb SM,Cortesi F,Sueess L,Carleton KL,Salzburger W,Marshall NJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：: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：:Although resolving phylogenetic relationships and establishing species limits are primary goals of systematics, these tasks remain challenging at both conceptual and analytical levels. Here, we integrated genomic and phenotypic data and employed a comprehensive suite of coalescent-based analyses to develop and evaluat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Noguerales V,Cordero PJ,Ortego J

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is challenging to unravel the history of organisms with highly scattered populations. Such species may have fragmented distributions because extant populations are remnants of a previously more continuous range, or because the species has narrow habitat requirements in combination with good dispersal capacity (natu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cassel-Lundhagen A,Ronnås C,Battisti A,Wallén J,Larsson S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detecting signatures of selection in tree populations threatened by climate change is currently a major research priority. Here, we investigated the signature of local adaptation over a short spatial scale using 96 European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) individuals originating from two pairs of populations on the norther...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Csilléry K,Lalagüe H,Vendramin GG,González-Martínez SC,Fady B,Oddou-Muratorio S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of information collection generated by metagenomics is uncoupled with its meaningful ecological interpretation. New analytical approaches based on functional trait-based ecology may help to bridge this gap and extend the trait approach to the community level in vast and complex environmental genetic data sets...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Barberán A,Fernández-Guerra A,Bohannan BJ,Casamayor EO

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies that reveal a correlation between heterozygosity and fitness in natural populations have rekindled interest in whether balancing selection is widespread or an evolutionary oddity. We therefore quantified heterozygote advantage at 12 microsatellite markers in both inbred and outbred crosses of Drosophila...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ferreira AG,Amos W

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life cycles and dispersal of edible fungi are still poorly known, thus limiting our understanding of their evolution and domestication. The prized Tuber melanosporum produces fruitbodies (fleshy organs where meiospores mature) gathered in natural, spontaneously inoculated forests or harvested in plantations of nur...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Taschen E,Rousset F,Sauve M,Benoit L,Dubois MP,Richard F,Selosse MA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal is a key biological process serving several functions including connectivity among populations. Habitat fragmentation caused by natural or anthropogenic structures may hamper dispersal, thereby disrupting genetic connectivity. Investigating factors affecting dispersal and gene flow is important in the curren...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Trense D,Schmidt TL,Yang Q,Chung J,Hoffmann AA,Fischer K

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-altered environments can shape the evolution of organisms. Fungi are no exception, although little is known about how they withstand anthropogenic pollution. Here, we document adaptation in the mycorrhizal fungus Suillus luteus driven by soil heavy metal contamination. Genome scans across individuals from recent...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bazzicalupo AL,Ruytinx J,Ke YH,Coninx L,Colpaert JV,Nguyen NH,Vilgalys R,Branco S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of a parasite species that is broadly host- and habitat-specific and exhibits alternative transmission strategies was undertaken to examine intraspecific variability and if it can be attributed to cryptic speciation or environmentally induced plasticity. Specimens of an acanthocephalan parasite, Lepto...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Steinauer ML,Nickol BB,Ortí G

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many salmonid fish populations have anadromous (i.e. migratory) and nonanadromous individuals co-existing in sympatry. The nonanadromous individuals, frequently males, mature at a much smaller size in freshwater without undergoing marine migrations and often successfully fertilize many eggs laid by anadromous females....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moore JS,Fraser DJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While microsatellites have been used to examine genetic structure in local populations of Neotropical trees, genetic studies based on such high-resolution markers have not been carried out for Mesoamerica as a whole. Here we assess the genetic structure of the Mesoamerican mahogany Swietenia macrophylla King (big-leaf...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Novick RR,Dick CW,Lemes MR,Navarro C,Caccone A,Bermingham E

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process by which a species becomes a biological invader, at a location where it does not naturally occur, can be divided into a series of sequential stages (transport, introduction, establishment and spread). A species' success at passing through each of these stages depends, in a large part, on the number of indi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Blackburn TM,Lockwood JL,Cassey P

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene flow within and between social groups is contingent on behaviourally mediated patterns of mating and dispersal. To understand how these patterns affect the genetic structure of primate populations, long-term data are required. In this study, we analyse 10 years of demographic and genetic data from a wild lemur po...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lawler RR,Richard AF,Riley MA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:House mice are extra-ordinary animals -extra-ordinary in the literal sense of that word. They are pests - but also a valued laboratory animal. They are generalized rodents - and successful in habitats from tundra to tropics and from sea-level to high altitudes. They have differentiated into a perplexity of taxa, yet d...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Berry RJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the phylogeographic framework, we assessed the DNA sequence variation at the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene across the distribution range of the barbel Barbus barbus, a widely distributed European cyprinid. Reciprocal monophyly of non-Mediterranean European and Balkan/Anatolian populations is taken as evidence ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kotlík P,Berrebi P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Southern Ocean contains some of the most isolated islands on Earth, and fundamental questions remain regarding their colonization and the connectivity of their coastal biotas. Here, we conduct a genetic investigation into the Cellana strigilis (limpet) complex that was originally classified based on morphological ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Reisser CM,Wood AR,Bell JJ,Gardner JP

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00