Detection, identification and geographical distribution of European corn borer larval parasitoids using molecular markers.

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：:Recent advances in the application of the polymerase chain reaction make it possible to score individuals at a large number of loci. The RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) method is one such technique that has attracted widespread interest. The analysis of population structure with RAPD data is hampered by the la...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lynch M,Milligan BG

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotton plants accumulate phytotoxins, including gossypol and related sesquiterpene aldehydes, to resist insect herbivores and pathogens. To counteract these defensive plant secondary metabolites, cotton bollworms (Helicoverpa armigera) elevate their production of detoxification enzymes, including cytochrome P450 monoo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Tao XY,Xue XY,Huang YP,Chen XY,Mao YB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation by adaptation increases divergence at neutral loci when natural selection against immigrants reduces the rate of gene flow between different habitats. This can occur early in the process of adaptive divergence and is a key feature of ecological speciation. Despite the ability of isolation by distance (IBD) a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Andrew RL,Ostevik KL,Ebert DP,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conspecific brood parasitism (CBP), females laying eggs in the nest of other 'host' females of the same species, is a common alternative reproductive tactic among birds. For hosts there are likely costs of incubating and rearing foreign offspring, but costs may be low in species with precocial chicks such as waterfowl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Anderholm S,Waldeck P,VAN DER Jeugd HP,Marshall RC,Larsson K,Andersson M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many parasites manipulate their hosts' phenotype. In particular, parasites with complex life cycles take control of their intermediate hosts' behaviour and life history to increase transmission to their definitive host. The proximate mechanisms underlying these parasite-induced alterations are poorly understood. The c...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Feldmeyer B,Mazur J,Beros S,Lerp H,Binder H,Foitzik S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is a worldwide pest and a vector of numerous plant viruses. B. tabaci is composed of dozens of morphologically indistinguishable biotypes and its taxonomic status is still controversial. This phloem-feeder harbours the primary symbiont Portiera aleyrodidarum and pot...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Thierry M,Becker N,Hajri A,Reynaud B,Lett JM,Delatte H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of achlorophyllous mycoheterotrophic plant species associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Previous studies have shown that some species are highly specialized towards narrow lineages of AMF and have suggested that only particular lineages of these fungi are targeted by mycoheterotrophic plants...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Merckx VS,Janssens SB,Hynson NA,Specht CD,Bruns TD,Smets EF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of integration between associated partners can range from ectosymbioses to extracellular and intracellular endosymbioses, and this range has been assumed to reflect a continuum from less intimate to evolutionarily highly stable associations. In this study, we examined the specificity and evolutionary history...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zimmermann J,Wentrup C,Sadowski M,Blazejak A,Gruber-Vodicka HR,Kleiner M,Ott JA,Cronholm B,De Wit P,Erséus C,Dubilier N

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping the genes responsible for natural variation and divergence is a challenging task. Many studies have mapped genes to genomic regions or generated lists of candidates, but few studies have implicated specific genes with a high standard of evidence. I propose that combining recent advances in genomic engineering ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Turner TL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations residing near species' low-latitude range margins (LLMs) often occur in warmer and drier environments than those in the core range. Thus, their genetic composition could be shaped by climatic drivers that differ from those occurring at higher latitudes, resulting in potentially adaptive variants of conserv...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Temunović M,Garnier-Géré P,Morić M,Franjić J,Ivanković M,Bogdan S,Hampe A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) undergoes crowding-induced phase transformation from solitary form to gregarious form. The transformations involves changes in behaviour, colour, development, morphometry, fecundity and endocrine physiology. Recession populations of the desert locust exist primarily in the sol...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ibrahim KM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On evolutionary timescales, sea level oscillations lead to recurrent spatio-temporal variation in species distribution and population connectivity. In this situation, applying classical concepts of biogeography is challenging yet necessary to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity in highly diverse marine e...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bertrand JAM,Borsa P,Chen WJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater biomonitoring programmes routinely sample aquatic macroinvertebrates. These samples are time-consuming to collect, as well as challenging and costly to identify reliably genus or species. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has emerged as a surrogate to traditional collection techniques and has been used...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gleason JE,Elbrecht V,Braukmann TWA,Hanner RH,Cottenie K

更新日期：2020-08-16 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：: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：:The declining health of coral reefs worldwide is likely to intensify in response to continued anthropogenic disturbance from coastal development, pollution, and climate change. In response to these stresses, reef-building corals may exhibit bleaching, which marks the breakdown in symbiosis between coral and zooxanthel...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： DeSalvo MK,Voolstra CR,Sunagawa S,Schwarz JA,Stillman JH,Coffroth MA,Szmant AM,Medina M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting and controlling infectious disease epidemics is a major challenge facing the management of agriculture, human and wildlife health. Co-evolutionarily derived patterns of local adaptation among pathogen populations have the potential to generate variation in disease epidemiology; however, studies of local ada...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Parratt SR,Barrès B,Penczykowski RM,Laine AL

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Contemporary adaptation of plant feeding insects to introduced hosts provides clear cases of ecologically based population divergence. In most cases the mechanisms permitting rapid differentiation are not well known. Here we study morphological and genetic variation associated with recent shifts by the Australian soap...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Andres JA,Thampy PR,Mathieson MT,Loye J,Zalucki MP,Dingle H,Carroll SP

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating how environmental features shape the genetic structure of populations is crucial for understanding how they are potentially adapted to their habitats, as well as for sound management. In this study, we assessed the relative importance of spatial distribution, ocean currents and sea surface temperature (S...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Benestan L,Quinn BK,Maaroufi H,Laporte M,Clark FK,Greenwood SJ,Rochette R,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epichloë endophytes are fungal symbionts of grasses that span a continuum including asexual mutualists that are vertically transmitted, obligately sexual pathogens that are horizontally transmitted, and mixed-strategy symbionts with both mutualistic and pathogenic capabilities. Here we show that processes of genome ev...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moon CD,Craven KD,Leuchtmann A,Clement SL,Schardl CL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the island of Schiermonnikoog (The Netherlands), the breeding population of oystercatchers can be divided into two groups: 'residents' and 'leapfrogs', based on their distinct social characteristics and limited probabilities of status change between breeding seasons. In order to investigate whether this social orga...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Van Treuren R,Bijlsma R,Tinbergen JM,Heg D,Van de Zande L

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most relatives of the self-fertilizing hermaphroditic nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans reproduce via obligate outbreeding between males and females, which also represents the ancestral mode of reproduction within the genus. However, little is known about the scope of genetic diversity and differentiation...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wang GX,Ren S,Ren Y,Ai H,Cutter AD

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The codling moth, Cydia pomonella, is renowned for developing resistance to insecticides and causing significant economic damage to pome fruits worldwide. In spite of its economic importance, little is known about the patterns of movement of this pest and the effects of insecticide treatment on the population genetic ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Franck P,Reyes M,Olivares J,Sauphanor B

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed genetic markers for three microsatellite loci in the tropical tree Symphonia globulifera and used them to examine the demographic genetic consequences of forest fragmentation. High levels of genetic variation were revealed in samples of adults, saplings, and seedlings. The more-variable loci exhibited les...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Aldrich PR,Hamrick JL,Chavarriaga P,Kochert G

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear and heterogeneous habitat makes headwater stream networks an ideal ecosystem in which to test the influence of environmental factors on spatial genetic patterns of obligatory aquatic species. We investigated fine-scale population structure and influence of stream habitat on individual-level genetic differentiat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kanno Y,Vokoun JC,Letcher BH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the role of landscapes in shaping genetic connectivity and divergence is essential for understanding patterns of biogeography and diversity. This is particularly relevant for the Andes region, a major biodiversity hotspot of relatively recent origin. We examined the phylogeography and landscape genetics o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Trénel P,Hansen MM,Normand S,Borchsenius F

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a broad survey of Drosophila melanogaster population samples, levels of abdominal pigmentation were found to be highly variable and geographically differentiated. A strong positive correlation was found between dark pigmentation and high altitude, suggesting adaptation to specific environments. DNA sequence polymor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pool JE,Aquadro CF

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the phylogeographic framework, we assessed the DNA sequence variation at the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene across the distribution range of the barbel Barbus barbus, a widely distributed European cyprinid. Reciprocal monophyly of non-Mediterranean European and Balkan/Anatolian populations is taken as evidence ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kotlík P,Berrebi P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00