Unrelated queens coexist in colonies of the termite Macrotermes michaelseni.

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：: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：:SSCP (single-strand conformational polymorphism) is used widely in the field of human biomedicine, but its potential as a population genetics tool for the recovery of nuclear gene genealogies remains to be realized. We describe and illustrate a use for SSCP in the physical isolation of nuclear haplotypes that circumve...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ortí G,Hare MP,Avise JC

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In High Arctic ecosystems, plant growth and reproduction are limited by low soil moisture and nutrient availability, low soil and air temperatures, and a short growing season. Mycorrhizal associations facilitate plant nutrient acquisition and water uptake and may therefore be particularly ecologically important in nut...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Botnen S,Vik U,Carlsen T,Eidesen PB,Davey ML,Kauserud H

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated how heterozygosity at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) affects fitness in wild-derived (F2) house mice (Mus musculus musculus). To compare and control for potential confounding effects from close inbreeding and genome-wide heterozygosity, we used mice that were systematically outbred. We asse...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Thoss M,Ilmonen P,Musolf K,Penn DJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sky islands are ideal systems for determining the effects of climatic oscillations on species distributions and genetic structure. Our study focused on montane stonefly populations in the Great Basin of western North America. We used niche-based distribution modelling, phylogeography and traditional species-based biog...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schultheis AS,Booth JY,Perlmutter LR,Bond JE,Sheldon AL

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:In the last few years microsatellites have become one of the most popular molecular markers used with applications in many different fields. High polymorphism and the relative ease of scoring represent the two major features that make microsatellites of large interest for many genetic studies. The major drawback of mi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zane L,Bargelloni L,Patarnello T

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Plasmid pSI30 was constructed to increase the sensitivity of detection of a genetically engineered micro-organism (GEM) and its recombinant DNA in environmental samples. This broad host-range, mobilizable plasmid contained chlorocatechol (clc) degradative genes, antibiotic resistance genes (ampicillin and kanamycin) a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Genthner FJ,Campbell RP,Pritchard PH

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new polymerase chain reaction-based screening method for microsatellites is presented. Using this method, we isolated 12 microsatellite loci from Drosophila buzzatii, two of which were X-linked. We applied the other 10 microsatellite loci to the analysis of genetic variation in five natural populations of D. buzzati...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Frydenberg J,Pertoldi C,Dahlgaard J,Loeschcke V

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process by which a species becomes a biological invader, at a location where it does not naturally occur, can be divided into a series of sequential stages (transport, introduction, establishment and spread). A species' success at passing through each of these stages depends, in a large part, on the number of indi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Blackburn TM,Lockwood JL,Cassey P

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between parasites and their hosts are intimate, dynamic and complex; the evolution of one is inevitably linked to the other. Despite multiple origins of parasitism in the Cnidaria, only parasites belonging to the Myxozoa are characterized by a complex life cycle, alternating between fish and inverteb...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Holzer AS,Bartošová-Sojková P,Born-Torrijos A,Lövy A,Hartigan A,Fiala I

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antrodiaetus riversi is a dispersal-limited, habitat-specialized mygalomorph spider species endemic to mesic woodlands of northern and central California. Here, we build upon prior phylogeographic research using a much larger geographic sample and include additional nuclear genes, providing more detailed biogeographic...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hedin M,Starrett J,Hayashi C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea) was once a common Australian Hylid. Today, many populations are small and fragmented as a result of dramatic declines in distribution and abundance. We undertook a large-scale assessment of genetic structure and diversity in L. aurea using four species-specific microsatel...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Burns EL,Eldridge MD,Houlden BA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method is presented for developing polymorphic, anonymous DNA markers suitable for population genetic studies. Anonymous DNA fragments are screened for sequence variability using a common mutation detection technique (single strand conformation polymorphism analysis; SSCP) and locus-specific PCR primers are d...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bagley MJ,Medrano JF,Gall GA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Morick et al. (2011) present an interesting study of acquisition and transmission of Bartonella by Xenopsylla ramesis fleas (Fig. 1) which infest naturally wild desert rodents from the Negev desert. A major issue with vector-borne diseases and vector-borne infection is to know wheth...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chomel BB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although resolving phylogenetic relationships and establishing species limits are primary goals of systematics, these tasks remain challenging at both conceptual and analytical levels. Here, we integrated genomic and phenotypic data and employed a comprehensive suite of coalescent-based analyses to develop and evaluat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Noguerales V,Cordero PJ,Ortego J

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasions generally start from low initial population sizes, leading to reduced genetic variation in nuclear and especially mitochondrial DNA. Consequently, genetic approaches for the study of invasion history and population structure are difficult. An extreme example is the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratit...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Villablanca FX,Roderick GK,Palumbi SR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity has been hypothesized to play a central role in the evolution of phenotypic diversity across species (West-Eberhard ). Through 'genetic assimilation', phenotypes that are initially environmentally induced within species become genetically fixed over evolutionary time. While genetic assimilation h...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sikkink KL,Snell-Rood EC

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Landscape features are known to alter the spatial genetic variation of aboveground organisms. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the genetic structure of belowground organisms also responds to landscape structure. Microsatellite markers were used to carry out a landscape genetic study of two endogeic earthworm specie...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dupont L,Torres-Leguizamon M,René-Corail P,Mathieu J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New Zealand's (NZ) geographical isolation, extensive coastline and well-characterized oceanography offer a valuable system for marine biogeographical research. Here we use mtDNA control region sequences in the abundant endemic sea-star Patiriella regularis to test the following literature-based predictions: that coast...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Waters JM,Roy MS

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of non-native species may depend on the genetic resources maintained through the invasion process. The Coqui (Eleutherodactylus coqui), a frog endemic to Puerto Rico, was introduced to Hawaii in the late 1980s via the horticulture trade, and has become an aggressive invader. To explore whether genetic dive...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Peacock MM,Beard KH,O'Neill EM,Kirchoff VS,Peters MB

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The koala, Phascolarctos cinereus, is a geographically widespread species endemic to Australia, with three currently recognized subspecies: P.c. adustus, P.c. cinereus, and P.c. victor. Intraspecific variation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region was examined in over 200 animals from 16 representative popul...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Houlden BA,Costello BH,Sharkey D,Fowler EV,Melzer A,Ellis W,Carrick F,Baverstock PR,Elphinstone MS

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal is a key biological process serving several functions including connectivity among populations. Habitat fragmentation caused by natural or anthropogenic structures may hamper dispersal, thereby disrupting genetic connectivity. Investigating factors affecting dispersal and gene flow is important in the curren...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Trense D,Schmidt TL,Yang Q,Chung J,Hoffmann AA,Fischer K

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the pattern of connectivity among populations is crucial for the development of realistic and spatially explicit population models in marine systems. Here we analysed variation at eight microsatellite loci to assess the genetic structure and to infer patterns of larval dispersal for a brooding coral, Ser...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Underwood JN,Smith LD,Van Oppen MJ,Gilmour JP

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coenagrion mercuriale (Charpentier) (Odonata: Zygoptera) is one of Europe's most threatened damselflies and is listed in the European Habitats directive. We combined an intensive mark-release-recapture (MRR) study with a microsatellite-based genetic analysis for C. mercuriale from the Itchen Valley, UK, as part of an ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Watts PC,Rouquette JR,Saccheri IJ,Kemp SJ,Thompson DJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00