Fine-scale phylogeographical analysis of Mediterranean Anacamptis palustris (Orchidaceae) populations based on chloroplast minisatellite and microsatellite variation.

abstract：:Increasing physical damage on coral reefs from predation, storms and anthropogenic disturbances highlights the need to understand the impact of injury on the coral immune system. In this study, we examined the regulation of the coral immune response over 10 days following physical trauma artificially inflicted on in s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： van de Water JA,Ainsworth TD,Leggat W,Bourne DG,Willis BL,van Oppen MJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two morphologically distinct forms of an undescribed madtom catfish (Noturus sp.) occur in the rivers and lakes of southeastern USA. 'Lake' broadtail madtoms are endemic to Lake Waccamaw and are probably related to nearby 'river' broadtail populations. To investigate phylogenetic relationships, we surveyed mitochondri...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bennetts RQ,Grady JM,Rohde FC,Quattro JM

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:A phylogeny of mainland eastern Australian scrubwrens (Sericornis citreogularis, S. frontalis, S. keri, S. magnirostris and S. beccarii) was constructed using presence or absence of phylogenetically informative restriction sites in 15 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotypes. MtDNA sequence divergences between species wer...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Joseph L,Moritz C

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of evolutionary mechanisms have been suggested for generating low but significant genetic structuring among marine fish populations. We used nine microsatellite loci and recently developed methods in landscape genetics and coalescence-based estimation of historical gene flow and effective population sizes to ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hemmer-Hansen J,Nielsen EE,Grønkjaer P,Loeschcke V

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of discovering species is a fundamental responsibility of systematics. Recently, there has been a growing interest in coalescent-based methods of species delimitation aimed at objectively identifying species early in the divergence process. However, few empirical studies have compared these new methods wit...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McKay BD,Mays HL Jr,Wu Y,Li H,Yao CT,Nishiumi I,Zou F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of gene flow and population size fluctuations in shaping genetic variation during adaptive radiation, at both the genome-wide and gene-specific levels, is very poorly understood. To examine how historical population size and gene flow patterns within and between loci have influenced lineage divergence in th...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lawton-Rauh A,Robichaux RH,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated range-wide phylogeographic variation in three European ash species (Fraxinus sp., Oleaceae). Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) microsatellites were typed in the thermophilous Fraxinus angustifolia and Fraxinus ornus and the observed haplotypes and the geographic distribution of diversity were compared to cpDNA d...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Heuertz M,Carnevale S,Fineschi S,Sebastiani F,Hausman JF,Paule L,Vendramin GG

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extra-pair copulations (EPCs; copulations outside the pair bond) are widespread in birds and may result in extra-pair fertilizations (EPFs). To increase reproductive success, males should not only seek to gain EPFs, but also prevent their own females from gaining EPFs. Although males could reduce the number of EPCs by...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Komdeur J,Burke T,Richardson DS

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:The mitochondrial pseudo-control region was analysed in five species of Aquila eagles. Indels caused great length differences in the nonrepetitive part of the region, whereas tandem repeat units were highly conserved among the genus. In a reconstructed phylogenetic tree, the clade formed by A. clanga and A. pomarina s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Väli U

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertically transmitted symbionts suffer a severe reduction in numbers when they pass through host generations, resulting in genetic homogeneity or even clonality of their populations. Wolbachia endosymbionts that induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in their hosts depart from this rule, because cytoplasmic incompatibili...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mouton L,Henri H,Bouletreau M,Vavre F

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the world's terrestrial landscapes are being altered by humans in the form of agriculture, urbanization and pastoral systems, with major implications for biodiversity. Bumble bees are one of the most effective pollinators in both natural and cultivated landscapes, but are often the first to be extirpated in hu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jha S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary origin of extant species in the Neotropics, one of the most biodiverse regions of the world, has been widely debated. One hypothesis is that neotropical species emerged primarily during the Quaternary (the last approximately 2 million years), favoured by alternating glacial/interglacial climates. An o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rull V

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cooperatively breeding species, restricted dispersal of offspring leads to clustering of closely related individuals, increasing the potential both for indirect genetic benefits and inbreeding costs. In apostlebirds (Struthidea cinerea), philopatry by both sexes results in the formation of large (up to 17 birds), p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Woxvold IA,Adcock GJ,Mulder RA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing of reproduction in birds varies considerably within populations and is often under strong natural selection. Individual timing within years is dependent on a range of environmental factors in addition to having an additive genetic basis. In vertebrates, an increasing amount is known about the molecular basi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Liedvogel M,Szulkin M,Knowles SC,Wood MJ,Sheldon BC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regions of the genome displaying elevated differentiation (genomic islands of divergence) are thought to play an important role in local adaptation, especially in populations experiencing high gene flow. However, the characteristics of these islands as well as the functional significance of genes located within them r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Larson WA,Limborg MT,McKinney GJ,Schindler DE,Seeb JE,Seeb LW

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio) are Batesian mimics that express multiple mimetic female forms, while the males are monomorphic and nonmimetic. The evolution of such sex-limited mimicry may involve sexual dimorphism arising first and mimicry subsequently. Such a stepwise scenario through a n...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Timmermans MJ,Thompson MJ,Collins S,Vogler AP

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sweat bees (Family Halictidae) are a socially diverse taxon in which eusociality has arisen independently numerous times. The obligate, primitively eusocial Lasioglossum malachurum, distributed widely throughout Europe, has been considered the zenith of sociality within halictids. A single queen heads a colony of ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Paxton RJ,Ayasse M,Field J,Soro A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the importance of host plant chemistry in plant-insect interactions is widely accepted, the genetic basis of adaptation to host plants is not well understood. Here, we investigate transcriptional changes associated with a host plant shift in Drosophila mettleri. While D. mettleri is distributed mainly through...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hoang K,Matzkin LM,Bono JM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity in experimental, domesticated and wild populations of the related yeasts, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus, has been well described at the global scale. We investigated the population genomics of a local population on a small spatial scale to address two main questions. First, is ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Xia W,Nielly-Thibault L,Charron G,Landry CR,Kasimer D,Anderson JB,Kohn LM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The populations of the bivalve clam Macoma balthica in the low-salinity Northern Baltic Sea represent an admixture of two strongly diverged genomic origins, the Pacific Macoma balthica balthica (approx. 60% genomic contribution) and Atlantic Macoma balthica rubra (40%). Using allozyme and mtDNA characters, we describe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nikula R,Strelkov P,Väinölä R

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repeated evolution of similar phenotypes by similar mechanisms can be indicative of local adaptation, constraints or biases in the evolutionary process. Little is known about the incidence of physiological convergence in natural populations, so here we test whether energy metabolism in 'dwarf' and 'normal' Lake Wh...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dalziel AC,Laporte M,Rougeux C,Guderley H,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population differentiation (PD) and ecological association (EA) tests have recently emerged as prominent statistical methods to investigate signatures of local adaptation using population genomic data. Based on statistical models, these genomewide testing procedures have attracted considerable attention as tools to id...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： François O,Martins H,Caye K,Schoville SD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of incompatibilities between eggs and sperm is thought to play important roles in establishing and maintaining reproductive isolation among species of broadcast-spawning marine invertebrates. However, the effectiveness of gametic isolation in initiating the speciation process and/or in limiting the intro...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Addison JA,Pogson GH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population dynamics of a parasite depend on species traits, host dynamics and the environment. Those dynamics are reflected in the genetic structure of the population. Habitat fragmentation has a greater impact on parasites than on their hosts because resource distribution is increasingly fragmented for species at...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Couchoux C,Seppä P,van Nouhuys S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many ectothermic species are currently expanding their distributions polewards due to anthropogenic global warming. Molecular genetic mechanisms facilitating range expansion under these conditions are largely unknown, but understanding these could help mitigate expanding pests and disease vectors, or help explain why ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lancaster LT,Dudaniec RY,Chauhan P,Wellenreuther M,Svensson EI,Hansson B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a study of the genetic diversity and structure of a tropical tree in an insular system. Santalum austrocaledonicum is endemic to the archipelago of New Caledonia and is exploited for oil extraction from heartwood. A total of 431 individuals over 17 populations were analysed for eight polymorphic microsatell...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bottin L,Verhaegen D,Tassin J,Olivieri I,Vaillant A,Bouvet JM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals generally benefit from their gastrointestinal microbiome, but the factors that influence the composition and dynamics of their microbiota remain poorly understood. Studies of nonmodel host species can illuminate how microbiota and their hosts interact in natural environments. We investigated the role of migrat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Turjeman S,Corl A,Wolfenden A,Tsalyuk M,Lublin A,Choi O,Kamath PL,Getz WM,Bowie RCK,Nathan R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fauna of oceanic islands provide exceptional models with which to examine patterns of dispersal, isolation and diversification, from incipient speciation to species level radiations. Here, we investigate recent differentiation and microevolutionary change in Berthelot's pipit (Anthus berthelotii), an endemic bird ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Illera JC,Emerson BC,Richardson DS

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00