Habitat age, breeding system and kinship in the ant Formica fusca.

abstract：:Most emerging pathogens can infect multiple species, underlining the importance of understanding the ecological and evolutionary factors that allow some hosts to harbour greater infection prevalence and share pathogens with other species. However, our understanding of pathogen jumps is based primarily around viruses, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Becker DJ,Speer KA,Brown AM,Fenton MB,Washburne AD,Altizer S,Streicker DG,Plowright RK,Chizhikov VE,Simmons NB,Volokhov DV

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How males gain access to mates and the potential for female choice will determine whether polygyny can operate at several levels, from within litters and groups to the wider population. Female lesser flat-headed bats (Tylonycteris pachypus) form maternity groups in bamboo stems. Unusually for bats, they are multiparou...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hua P,Zhang L,Zhu G,Jones G,Zhang S,Rossiter SJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed germination is a key life history transition for annual plants and partly determines lifetime performance and fitness. Germination speed, the elapsed time for a nondormant seed to germinate, is a poorly understood trait important for plants' competitiveness and fitness in fluctuating environments. Germination spe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Yuan W,Flowers JM,Sahraie DJ,Ehrenreich IM,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing rate of biological invasions resulting from human transport or human-mediated changes to the environment has had devastating ecological and public health consequences. The kissing bug, Triatoma infestans, has dispersed through the Peruvian city of Arequipa. The biological invasion of this insect has res...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Foley EA,Khatchikian CE,Hwang J,Ancca-Juárez J,Borrini-Mayori K,Quıspe-Machaca VR,Levy MZ,Brisson D,Chagas Disease Working Group in Arequipa.

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium) in pocilloporid corals originating from various reef habitats surrounding Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, was examined by targeting ribosomal, mitochondrial, and chloroplast genes using six methods that analyse for sequence differences. The ability o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sampayo EM,Dove S,Lajeunesse TC

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleistocene ice-ages greatly influenced the historical abundances of Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus, in the North Pacific and its marginal seas. We surveyed genetic variation at 11 microsatellite loci and mitochondrial (mt) DNA in samples from twelve locations from the Sea of Japan to Washington State. Both microsat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Canino MF,Spies IB,Cunningham KM,Hauser L,Grant WS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discordance between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes is a prevalent phenomenon in nature, in which the underlying processes responsible are considered to be important in shaping genetic variation in natural populations. Among the evolutionary processes that best explain such genomic mismatches incomplete lineage ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Streicher JW,Day JJ

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the processes that shape patterns of genetic structure across space is a central aim of landscape genetics. However, it remains unclear how geographical features and environmental variables shape gene flow, particularly for marine species in large complex seascapes. Here, we evaluated the genomic composi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Saenz-Agudelo P,Dibattista JD,Piatek MJ,Gaither MR,Harrison HB,Nanninga GB,Berumen ML

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike other migratory hummingbirds in North America, the broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) exhibits both long-distance migratory behaviour in the USA and sedentary behaviour in Mexico and Guatemala. We examined the evolution of migration linked to its northward expansion using a multiperspective appr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Malpica A,Ornelas JF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 100 years, Arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate. One consequence is the acceleration of glacier retreat, exposing new habitats that are colonized by microorganisms whose diversity and function are unknown. Here, we characterized bacterial diversity along two approxim...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schütte UM,Abdo Z,Foster J,Ravel J,Bunge J,Solheim B,Forney LJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of reproductive isolation in the presence of gene flow is supported by theoretical models but rarely by data. Empirical support might be gained from studies of parallel hybrid zones between interbreeding taxa. We analysed gene flow over two hybrid zones separating ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis to test ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Panova M,Hollander J,Johannesson K

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:Mitochondrial haplotype diversity in 27 populations of brown trout, Salmo trutta L., in Austria was investigated by sequencing the 5' end of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region. Although all populations are within the Danube drainage, 44% of all individuals carried Atlantic basin haplotypes. It is argued that...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Weiss S,Schlötterer C,Waidbacher H,Jungwirth M

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：: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：:Following the announcement of the first case of rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) in a pet rabbit, housed indoors in Canada for more than 1 year, I submitted an evidence-based explanation to ProMed explaining how RHD might have caused the death of 'one' of the three pet rabbits. I suggested with supporting evidence, t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gould EA

更新日期：2012-03-01 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 used a comparative phylogeographical approach to investigate the origins of the disjunct wet forest biota of the Golfo Dulce region along the Pacific slope of Costa Rica. This region is isolated by Pacific dry forests north and south and isolated from Caribbean wet forests by mountains. We studied three sympatric l...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Crawford AJ,Bermingham E,Carolina PS

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a de novo assembly of a eukaryote transcriptome using 454 pyrosequencing data. The Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) is a prominent species in population biology but had no previous genomic data. Sequencing runs using two normalized complementary DNA collections from...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vera JC,Wheat CW,Fescemyer HW,Frilander MJ,Crawford DL,Hanski I,Marden JH

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：: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：:Agroforestry ecosystems may be an important resource for conservation and sustainable use of tropical trees, but little is known of the genetic diversity they contain. Inga edulis, a widespread indigenous fruit tree in South America, is used as a model to assess the maintenance of genetic diversity in five planted vs....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hollingsworth PM,Dawson IK,Goodall-Copestake WP,Richardson JE,Weber JC,Sotelo Montes C,Pennington RT

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palaeoclimatic events and biogeographical processes since the mid-Tertiary are believed to have strongly influenced the evolution and distribution of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of southeastern Australia. We examined the phylogeography of the temperate-adapted members of the Egernia whitii species group, a group ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chapple DG,Keogh JS,Hutchinson MN

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:Accurate identification of species that are consumed by vertebrate predators is necessary for understanding marine food webs. Morphological methods for identifying prey components after consumption often fail to make accurate identifications of invertebrates because prey morphology becomes damaged during capture, inge...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jarman SN,Gales NJ,Tierney M,Gill PC,Elliott NG

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transcription variation is known to contribute to disease susceptibility and adaptation, but we currently know very little about how contemporary natural selection shapes transcript abundance. Here, we propose a novel analytical framework to quantify the strength and form of ongoing natural selection at the trans...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ahmad F,Debes PV,Nousiainen I,Kahar S,Pukk L,Gross R,Ozerov M,Vasemägi A

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding ecological divergence of morphologically similar but genetically distinct species - previously considered as a single morphospecies - is of key importance in evolutionary ecology and conservation biology. Despite their morphological similarity, cryptic species may have evolved distinct adaptations. If su...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Leys M,Keller I,Robinson CT,Räsänen K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of stable genetic boundaries between emerging species is often diagnosed by reduced hybrid fitness relative to parental taxa. This reduced fitness can arise from endogenous and/or exogenous barriers to gene flow. Although detecting exogenous barriers in nature is difficult, we can estimate the role of ec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Tarroso P,Pereira RJ,Martínez-Freiría F,Godinho R,Brito JC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic rescue is an increasingly considered conservation measure to address genetic erosion associated with habitat loss and fragmentation. The resulting gene flow from facilitating migration may improve fitness and adaptive potential, but is not without risks (e.g., outbreeding depression). Here, we conducted a test...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Robinson ZL,Coombs JA,Hudy M,Nislow KH,Letcher BH,Whiteley AR

更新日期：2017-09-01 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