Genetic mating system and the significance of harem associations in the bat Saccopteryx bilineata.

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：:The climbing orchid Erythrorchis altissima is the largest mycoheterotroph in the world. Although previous in vitro work suggests that E. altissima has a unique symbiosis with wood-decaying fungi, little is known about how this giant orchid meets its carbon and nutrient demands exclusively via mycorrhizal fungi. In thi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ogura-Tsujita Y,Gebauer G,Xu H,Fukasawa Y,Umata H,Tetsuka K,Kubota M,Schweiger JM,Yamashita S,Maekawa N,Maki M,Isshiki S,Yukawa T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, there is much debate on the genetic architecture of quantitative traits in wild populations. Is trait variation influenced by many genes of small effect or by a few genes of major effect? Where is additive genetic variation located in the genome? Do the same loci cause similar phenotypic variation in differ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Santure AW,Poissant J,De Cauwer I,van Oers K,Robinson MR,Quinn JL,Groenen MA,Visser ME,Sheldon BC,Slate J

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Dispersal is a fundamental attribute of species in nature and shapes population dynamics, evolutionary trajectories and genetic variation across spatial and temporal scales. It is increasingly clear that landscape features have large impacts on dispersal patterns. Thus, understanding how individuals and species move t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Row JR,Blouin-Demers G,Lougheed SC

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:Domestic species such as cattle (Bos taurus taurus and B. t. indicus) represent attractive biological models to characterize the genetic basis of short-term evolutionary response to climate pressure induced by their post-domestication history. Here, using newly generated dense SNP genotyping data, we assessed the stru...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Flori L,Moazami-Goudarzi K,Alary V,Araba A,Boujenane I,Boushaba N,Casabianca F,Casu S,Ciampolini R,Coeur D'Acier A,Coquelle C,Delgado JV,El-Beltagi A,Hadjipavlou G,Jousselin E,Landi V,Lauvie A,Lecomte P,Ligda C,Mari

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization among conspecifics in native and introduced habitats has important implications for biological invasions in new ecosystems. Bighead (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and silver carp (H. molitrix) are genetically isolated and occur in sympatry within their native range. Following their introduction to North Am...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lamer JT,Ruebush BC,Arbieva ZH,McClelland MA,Epifanio JM,Sass GG

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecosystem service of insect pest regulation by natural enemies, such as primary parasitoids, may be enhanced by the presence of uncultivated, semi-natural habitats within agro-ecosystems, although quantifying such host-parasitoid interactions is difficult. Here, we use rRNA 16S gene sequencing to assess both the l...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Derocles SA,Le Ralec A,Besson MM,Maret M,Walton A,Evans DM,Plantegenest M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding dispersal patterns, population structure and connectivity among populations is helpful in the management and conservation of threatened species. Molecular markers are useful tools as indirect estimators of these characteristics. In this study, we assess the population genetic structure of the orange cora...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Casado-Amezúa P,Goffredo S,Templado J,Machordom A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Badgers are facultatively social, forming large groups at high density. Group-living appears to have high reproductive costs for females, and may lead to increased levels of inbreeding. The extent of female competition for reproduction has been estimated from field data, but knowledge of male reproductive success and ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Carpenter PJ,Pope LC,Greig C,Dawson DA,Rogers LM,Erven K,Wilson GJ,Delahay RJ,Cheeseman CL,Burke T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the origin of new species is a central goal in evolutionary biology. Diverging lineages often evolve highly heterogeneous patterns of genetic differentiation; however, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We investigated evolutionary processes governing genetic differentiation between the h...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Liu X,Glémin S,Karrenberg S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellites are one of the most important classes of nuclear genetic markers and offer many advantages for the study of marine mammals. Here we describe the isolation and characterization of 12 cetacean microsatellites which are then tested across 30 different cetacean species. For around half the species tested, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Valsecchi E,Amos W

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:Antagonistic co-evolution between hosts and parasites can lead to local adaptation (LA) such that parasite fitness is greatest in sympatric hosts (or vice versa). The magnitude of LA typically increases with geographical distance, which is assumed to be because genetic (and hence phenotypic) distance increases with ge...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Scanlan PD,Hall AR,Buckling A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies that span entire species ranges can provide insight into the relative roles of historical contingency and contemporary factors that influence population structure and can reveal patterns of genetic variation that might otherwise go undetected. American shad is a wide ranging anadromous clupeid fish that exhibi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hasselman DJ,Ricard D,Bentzen P

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary North American drainage basins are composites of formerly isolated drainages, suggesting that fragmentation and fusion of palaeodrainage systems may have been an important factor generating current patterns of genetic and species diversity in stream-associated organisms. Here, we combine traditional molec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kozak KH,Blaine RA,Larson A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In long-lived clonal plants, the overall size of a clone is often used to estimate clone age. The size of a clone, however, might be largely determined by physical or biotic interactions, obscuring the relationship between clone size and age. Here, we use the accumulation of mutations at 14 microsatellite loci to esti...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ally D,Ritland K,Otto SP

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal drives diverse processes from population persistence to community dynamics. However, the amount of temporal variation in dispersal and its consequences for metapopulation dynamics is largely unknown for organisms with environmentally driven dispersal (e.g., many marine larvae, arthropods and plant seeds). He...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Catalano KA,Dedrick AG,Stuart MR,Puritz JB,Montes HR Jr,Pinsky ML

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the spatial structure of a population is critical for effective assessment and management. However, direct observation of spatial dynamics is generally difficult, particularly for marine mammals. California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) are polygynous pinnipeds distributed along the Pacific coast of...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： González-Suárez M,Flatz R,Aurioles-Gamboa D,Hedrick PW,Gerber LR

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing between primary and secondary intergradation among differentiated populations, and the relative importance of drift and selection, are persistent problems in evolutionary biology. An historical perspective on population interactions can provide insight into the nature of contacts, and thus help resolve ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schneider CJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：: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：:Spatially overdispersed mounds of fungus-farming termites (Macrotermitinae) are hotspots of nutrient availability and primary productivity in tropical savannas, creating spatial heterogeneity in communities and ecosystem functions. These termites influence the local availability of nutrients in part by redistributing ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Baker CCM,Castillo Vardaro JA,Doak DF,Pansu J,Puissant J,Pringle RM,Tarnita CE

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity allows for changes in phenotype in response to environmental cues, often facilitating local adaptation to seasonal environments. Phenotypic plasticity alone, however, may not always be sufficient to ensure adaptation to new localities. In particular, changing cues associated with shifting seasonal regimes m...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hyma KE,Caicedo AL

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity vary among species. This may be attributed to the interacting effects of species traits and landscape structure. While widely distributed and abundant species are often considered less susceptible to fragmentation, this may be different if they are small sized and ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lange R,Durka W,Holzhauer SI,Wolters V,Diekötter T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary processes and genetics underlying local adaptation at a specieswide level are largely unknown. Recent work has indicated that a frameshift mutation in a member of a family of transcription factors, C-repeat binding factors or CBFs, underlies local adaptation and freezing tolerance divergence between t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Monroe JG,McGovern C,Lasky JR,Grogan K,Beck J,McKay JK

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MtDNA sequencing was used to investigate the genetic population structure of Litoria pearsoniana, a wet forest-restricted hylid frog, endemic to southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales, Australia. L. pearsoniana is regarded as endangered under Queensland legislation. Significant genetic divergence among pop...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McGuigan K,McDonald K,Parris K,Moritz C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seagrass meadows are among the most important coastal ecosystems in terms of both spatial extent and ecosystem services, but they are also declining worldwide. Understanding the drivers of seagrass meadow dynamics is essential for designing sound management, conservation and restoration strategies. However, poor knowl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Arnaud-Haond S,Stoeckel S,Bailleul D

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabarcoding has been used in a range of ecological applications such as taxonomic assignment, dietary analysis and the analysis of environmental DNA. However, after a decade of use in these applications there is little consensus on the extent to which proportions of reads generated corresponds to the original propor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lamb PD,Hunter E,Pinnegar JK,Creer S,Davies RG,Taylor MI

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00