The demographic history of the New Zealand short-tailed bat Mystacina tuberculata inferred from modified control region sequences.

abstract：:Unlike plants and vertebrates, the ecological preferences, and potential vulnerabilities of soil invertebrates to environmental change, remain poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems globally. We conducted a cross-biome survey including 83 locations across six continents to advance our understanding of the ecologi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bastida F,Eldridge DJ,Abades S,Alfaro FD,Gallardo A,García-Velázquez L,García C,Hart SC,Pérez CA,Santos F,Trivedi P,Williams MA,Delgado-Baquerizo M

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:The inference of population divergence times and branching patterns is of fundamental importance in many population genetic analyses. Many methods have been developed for estimating population divergence times, and recently, there has been particular attention towards genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wang Y,Nielsen R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In insect societies, worker vs. queen development (reproductive caste) is typically governed by environmental factors, but many Pogonomyrmex seed-harvester ants exhibit strict genetic caste determination, resulting in an obligate mutualism between two reproductively isolated lineages. Same-lineage matings produce fert...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Anderson KE,Wheeler DE,Yang K,Linksvayer TA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural hybridization between closely related taxa is frequent in many organismal groups, yet it has long been perceived as a force preventing diversification and speciation, especially so in animals. In recent years, growing evidence in favour of hybridization facilitating adaptive divergence has accumulated (Mallet ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Renaut S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both historical and contemporary processes influence the genetic structure of species, but the relative roles of such processes are still difficult to access. Population genetic studies of species with recent evolutionary histories such as the New Zealand endemic scallop Pecten novaezelandiae (<1 Ma) permit testing of...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Silva CN,Gardner JP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cichlid fish are well known for their high speciation rates, which are usually accompanied by spectacular and rapid diversification in eco-morphological and secondary sexual traits. This is best illustrated by the famous repeated explosive radiations in the African Great Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria, each lak...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pinho C,Faria R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the distribution of genetic variation within and between seven subpopulations in a riparian population of Silene tatarica in northern Finland by using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. A Bayesian approach-based clustering program indicated that the marker data contained not only on...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Tero N,Aspi J,Siikamäki P,Jäkäläniemi A,Tuomi J

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the gene dispersal distance and the magnitude of inbreeding depression from the fine-scale genetic structure in the endangered heterostylous perennial Primula sieboldii. We indirectly estimated the neighbourhood size (Nb) and the standard deviation of gene dispersal distance (sigma(g)) from the detected g...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ishihama F,Ueno S,Tsumura Y,Washitani I

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rust fungi can overcome the effect of host resistance genes rapidly, and spores can disperse long distance by wind. Here we demonstrate a foreign incursion of similar strains of the wheat yellow rust fungus, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, in North America, Australia and Europe in less than 3 years. One strain de...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hovmøller MS,Yahyaoui AH,Milus EA,Justesen AF

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative phylogeographic studies of animals with low mobility and/or high habitat specificity remain rare, yet such organisms may hold fine-grained palaeoecological signal. Comparisons of multiple, codistributed species can elucidate major historical events. As part of a multitaxon programme, mitochondrial cytochro...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sunnucks P,Blacket MJ,Taylor JM,Sands CJ,Ciavaglia SA,Garrick RC,Tait NN,Rowell DM,Pavlova A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population decline in the federally endangered June sucker (Chasmistes liorus), a lakesucker unique to Utah Lake, Utah, has been attributed in part to hybridization with the more widespread Utah sucker (Catostomus ardens). As a group, suckers in Utah Lake exhibit considerable external morphological variation. Meristic...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cole DD,Mock KE,Cardall BL,Crowl TA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monarch butterflies are known for their spectacular annual migration in eastern North America, with millions of monarchs flying up to 4,500 km to overwintering sites in central Mexico. Monarchs also live west of the Rocky Mountains, where they travel shorter distances to overwinter along the Pacific Coast. It is often...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Talla V,Pierce AA,Adams KL,de Man TJB,Nallu S,Villablanca FX,Kronforst MR,de Roode JC

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:All species of the genus Populus (poplar, aspen) are dioecious, suggesting an ancient origin of this trait. Despite some empirical counter examples, theory suggests that nonrecombining sex-linked regions should quickly spread, eventually becoming heteromorphic chromosomes. In contrast, we show using whole-genome scans...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Geraldes A,Hefer CA,Capron A,Kolosova N,Martinez-Nuñez F,Soolanayakanahally RY,Stanton B,Guy RD,Mansfield SD,Douglas CJ,Cronk QC

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Humans are notorious for disturbing terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, especially those that are in close proximity to urban areas. This disturbance has involved the accumulation of various types of chemical pollutants, of either agricultural or industrial origins, in both soil and water ecosystems. Pollutants have som...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Corradi N,Charest C

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The black surfperch Embiotoca jacksoni and the striped surfperch E. lateralis (Embiotocidae, Perciformes) are livebearing temperate reef fishes that live sympatrically over a large portion of their distribution range, where they exhibit strong ecological competition. In order to assess whether mating strategies reflec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Reisser CM,Beldade R,Bernardi G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In certain cases, a species may have access to important genetic variation present in a related species via adaptive introgression. These novel alleles may interact with their new genetic background, resulting in unexpected phenotypes. In this study, we describe a selective sweep on standing variation on the X chromos...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Main BJ,Lee Y,Collier TC,Norris LC,Brisco K,Fofana A,Cornel AJ,Lanzaro GC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species occupying the same geographic range can exhibit remarkably different population structures across the landscape, ranging from highly diversified to panmictic. Given limitations on collecting population-level data for large numbers of species, ecologists seek to identify proximate organismal traits-such as disp...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Phillipsen IC,Kirk EH,Bogan MT,Mims MC,Olden JD,Lytle DA

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Analysis of mitochondrial (mt)DNA size polymorphism in the form of variable number tandem repeats (mtVNTRs) has become an increasingly popular methodology for addressing questions in molecular ecology. When detected by PCR, mtVNTR analysis can provide a sensitive, rapid, and cost-effective measure of genetic variabili...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lunt DH,Whipple LE,Hyman BC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of an intense host-parasite evolutionary arms race, parasitic wasps frequently display high levels of specialization on very few host species. For instance, in braconid wasps very few generalist species have been described. However, within this family, Cotesia sesamiae is a generalist species that is wides...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Branca A,LE Ru BP,Vavre F,Silvain JF,Dupas S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What makes a species able to colonize novel environments? This question is key to understand the dynamics of adaptive radiations and ecological niche shifts, but the mechanisms that underlie expansion into novel habitats remain poorly understood at a genomic scale. Lizards from the genus Anolis are typically tropical,...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bourgeois Y,Boissinot S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dactylorhiza incarnata/maculata complex (Orchidaceae) was used as a model system to understand genetic differentiation processes in a naturally occurring polyploid complex with much of ongoing diversification and wide distribution in recently glaciated areas in northern Europe. Data were obtained for 12 hypervaria...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hedrén M,Nordström S,Ståhlberg D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotype phylogeny for Amazonian Anolis lizards, including geographical sampling within four species distributed across the Amazon basin (A. fuscoauratus, A. nitens, A. ortonii and A. punctatus). Approximately 1500 bp of mtDNA encoding ND2, COI and four transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Glor RE,Vitt LJ,Larson A

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Molecular markers have proved extremely useful in resolving mating patterns within individual populations of a number of species, but little is known about how genetic mating systems might vary geographically within a species. Here we use microsatellite markers to compare patterns of sneaked fertilization and mating s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jones AG,Walker D,Lindström K,Kvarnemo C,Avise JC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sağlam et al. recently argued that the Devil's Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis), a conservation icon with the smallest known species range, was isolated 60 kya based on a new genomic data set. If true, this would be a radically long timescale for any species to persist at population sizes <500 individuals, in contra...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Martin CH,Höhna S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the late 1990s, molecular techniques have fuelled debate about the role of Pleistocene glacial cycles in structuring contemporary avian diversity in North America. The debate is still heated; however, there is widespread agreement that the Pleistocene glacial cycles forced the repeated contraction, fragmentation...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Spellman GM,Riddle B,Klicka J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00