The molecular population genetics of the Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) genome.

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity allows organisms to adapt quickly to local environmental conditions and could facilitate adaptive radiations. Cichlids have recently undergone an adaptive radiation in Lake Malawi where they inhabit diverse light environments and tune their visual sensitivity through differences in cone opsin exp...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nandamuri SP,Yourick MR,Carleton KL

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiologists often evaluate microbial community dynamics by formulating functional hypotheses based on ecological processes. Indeed, many of the methods and terms currently used to describe animal microbiomes derive from ecology and evolutionary biology. As our understanding of the composition and functional dynami...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McKenney EA,Koelle K,Dunn RR,Yoder AD

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functionally constrained genes are ideal insecticide targets because disruption is often fatal, and resistance mutations are typically costly. Synaptic acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is an essential neurotransmission enzyme targeted by insecticides used increasingly in malaria control. In Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Weetman D,Mitchell SN,Wilding CS,Birks DP,Yawson AE,Essandoh J,Mawejje HD,Djogbenou LS,Steen K,Rippon EJ,Clarkson CS,Field SG,Rigden DJ,Donnelly MJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does one species become two? What is the relative importance of selection vs. drift? How many genes are involved, what are their effect sizes and where are they located in the genome? The answers to these questions will inevitably vary from one species to another, but by addressing these questions in a diverse arr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Yeaman S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate population genetic structuring in Margaritifera falcata, a freshwater mussel native to western North America, across the majority of its geographical range. We find shallow rangewide genetic structure, strong population-level structuring and very low population diversity in this species, using both mito...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mock KE,Brim Box JC,Chong JP,Furnish J,Howard JK

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion–contraction (EC) model predicts demographic and range contraction of temperate species during Pleistocene glaciations as a consequence of climate-related habitat changes, and provides a paradigm for explaining the high intraspecific diversity found in refugia in terms of long-term demographic stability. ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Salvi D,Schembri PJ,Sciberras A,Harris DJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogeography of Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) was reconstructed from the coat protein gene sequences of a selection of 173 isolates from the 14 countries of mainland Africa where the disease occurred and from the full sequences of 16 representative isolates. Genetic variation was linked to geographical distributio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Traore O,Sorho F,Pinel A,Abubakar Z,Banwo O,Maley J,Hebrard E,Winter S,Sere Y,Konate G,Fargette D

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the consequences of barriers, stream architecture and putative dispersal capability on levels of genetic differentiation among populations of the freshwater fish Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum. Seven polymorphic allozyme loci and sequences of a 498-bp fragment of the ATPase 6 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McGlashan DJ,Hughes JM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When studying selection during adaptation to novel environments, researchers have often paid little attention to an organism's earliest developmental stages. Despite this lack of attention, early life history traits may be under strong selection during colonization, as the expression of adaptive phenotypes at later po...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moyers BT,Kane NC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences has for a long time been the most extensively used genetic tool for phylogenetic, phylogeographic and population genetic studies. Since this approach only considers female lineages, it tends to give a biased picture of the population history. The use of protein polymorphisms...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sundqvist AK,Ellegren H,Olivier M,Vilà C

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variation and taxonomic diversity among mammalian gut microbiomes raises several questions about the factors that contribute to the rates and patterns of change in these microbial communities. By comparing the microbiome compositions of 112 species representing 14 mammalian orders, we assessed how host and ecologi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nishida AH,Ochman H

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asexual lineages are thought to be prone to extinction because of deleterious mutation accumulation (Muller's ratchet). Here, we analyse genomic effects of hybridity, polyploidy and allelic divergence in apomictic plants, and identify loci under divergent selection among sexual/apomictic lineages. RNAseq was used to s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pellino M,Hojsgaard D,Schmutzer T,Scholz U,Hörandl E,Vogel H,Sharbel TF

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:New methods for better identification of timber geographical origin would constitute an important technical element in the forest industry, for phytosanitary certification procedures or in the chain of custody developed for the certification of timber from sustainably managed forests. In the case of the European white...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Deguilloux MF,Pemonge MH,Bertel L,Kremer A,Petit RJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Future climate scenarios predict changes in rainfall regimes. These changes are expected to affect plants via effects on the expression of root traits associated with water and nutrient uptake. Associated microorganisms may also respond to these new precipitation regimes, either directly in response to changes in the ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Deveautour C,Donn S,Power SA,Bennett AE,Powell JR

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympatric individuals of Rattus fuscipes and Rattus leucopus, two Australian native rats from the tropical wet forests of north Queensland, are difficult to distinguish morphologically and are often confused in the field. When we started a study on fine-scale movements of these species, using microsatellite markers, w...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vázquez-Domínguez E,Paetkau D,Tucker N,Hinten G,Moritz C

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The landscape of the Pilbara region of Western Australia has been relatively unchanged for 100 million years. The ancient river systems of this region might be expected to be sources of isolation and divergence for aquatic species. Hence, the occurrence of widespread groundwater taxa in this landscape offers the oppor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Finston TL,Johnson MS,Humphreys WF,Eberhard SM,Halse SA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While males gain obvious direct advantages from multiple mating, the reproductive capacity of females is more constrained. The reason why polyandry evolved in females is therefore open to many conjectures. One hypothesis postulates that females gain indirect benefits by increasing the probability of siring young from ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Richard M,Lecomte J,de Fraipont M,Clobert J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relatedness structure of animal populations is thought to be a critically important factor underlying the evolution of mating systems and social behaviours. While previous work has shown that population structure is shaped by many biological processes, few studies have investigated how these factors vary over time...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nichols HJ,Jordan NR,Jamie GA,Cant MA,Hoffman JI

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used behavioural observations and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence analysis to examine demographic and genetic structure within and among home-range groups of desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) ewes in the Peninsular Ranges of southern California, USA. We identified substantial genetic variation in the first ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Boyce WM,Ramey RR 2nd,Rodwell TC,Rubin ES,Singer RS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the process of ecological speciation, reproductive isolation results from divergent natural selection and leads to a positive correlation between genetic divergence and adaptive phenotypic divergence, that is, isolation by adaptation (IBA). In natural populations, phenotypic differentiation is often autocorrela...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Seeholzer GF,Brumfield RT

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facilitated by the intensification of global trading, the introduction and dispersal of species to areas in which they are historically non-native is nowadays common. From an evolutionary standpoint, invasions are paradoxical: not only non-native environments could be different from native ones for which introduced in...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Baltazar-Soares M,Blanchet S,Cote J,Tarkan AS,Záhorská E,Gozlan RE,Eizaguirre C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theory suggests that speciation is possible without physical isolation of populations (hereafter, nonallopatric speciation), but recent nonallopatric models need the support of irrefutable empirical examples. We collected snails (Littorina saxatilis) from three areas on the NW coast of Spain to investigate the populat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rolán-Alvarez E,Carballo M,Galindo J,Morán P,Fernández B,Caballero A,Cruz R,Boulding EG,Johannesson K

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-specific chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) variation was studied in Sorbus aucuparia L., an entomophilous, mid-or early successional tree producing fleshy fruits. Eight PCR-amplified fragments of the chloroplast genome were screened for restriction fragment length polymorphisms, using one or two 4 bp-cutter restriction en...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Raspé O,Saumitou-Laprade P,Cuguen J,Jacquemart AL

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probably half of all animal species exhibit a parasitic lifestyle and numerous parasites have recently expanded their distribution and host ranges due to anthropogenic activities. Here, we report on the population genetic structure of the invasive nematode Anguillicola crassus, a parasite in freshwater eels, which rec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wielgoss S,Taraschewski H,Meyer A,Wirth T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal plays a prominent role in most conceptual models of community assembly. However, direct measurement of dispersal across a whole community is difficult at ecologically relevant spatial scales. For cryptic organisms, such as fungi and bacteria, the scale and importance of dispersal limitation has become a majo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Peay KG,Schubert MG,Nguyen NH,Bruns TD

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is a haplo-diploid species of sap-feeding insect belonging to the group of insects commonly known as whiteflies. From earlier analyses of mitochondrial and ribosomal markers it has been concluded that in the Asia-Pacific region there were three major indigenous races as well as ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： De Barro PJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of studies describe moving hybrid zones. This raises the issue of their actual frequency and emphasizes the need for methods that enable the detection of zone movements without historical records. Asymmetric introgression, usually considered as a signature of geographical shift, might be misleadin...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Secondi J,Faivre B,Bensch S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed evaluations of genomic variation between sister species often reveal distinct chromosomal regions of high relative differentiation (i.e., "islands of differentiation" in FST ), but there is much debate regarding the causes of this pattern. We briefly review the prominent models of genomic islands of different...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Irwin DE,Milá B,Toews DPL,Brelsford A,Kenyon HL,Porter AN,Grossen C,Delmore KE,Alcaide M,Irwin JH

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host specialization is a key process in ecological divergence and speciation of plant-associated fungi. The underlying determinants of host specialization are generally poorly understood, especially in endophytes, which constitute one of the most abundant components of the plant microbiome. We addressed the genetic ba...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schirrmann MK,Zoller S,Croll D,Stukenbrock EH,Leuchtmann A,Fior S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00