Prevalence and penetrance variation of male-killing Wolbachia across Indo-Pacific populations of the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina.

abstract：:Genetic differentiation may exist among sympatric populations of a species due to long-term associations with alternative hosts (i.e. host-associated differentiation). While host-associated differentiation has been documented in several phytophagus insects, there are far fewer cases known in animal parasites. The bed ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Booth W,Balvín O,Vargo EL,Vilímová J,Schal C

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Ecosystems across the globe are threatened by climate change and human activities. New rapid survey approaches for monitoring biodiversity would greatly advance assessment and understanding of these threats. Taking advantage of next-generation DNA sequencing, we tested an approach we call metabarcoding: high-throughpu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Yoccoz NG,Bråthen KA,Gielly L,Haile J,Edwards ME,Goslar T,Von Stedingk H,Brysting AK,Coissac E,Pompanon F,Sønstebø JH,Miquel C,Valentini A,De Bello F,Chave J,Thuiller W,Wincker P,Cruaud C,Gavory F,Rasmussen M,Gilb

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of classical and cryptic Pleistocene refugia is based mainly on historical changes in temperature, and the refugia are usually defined within a latitudinal gradient. However, the gradient of oceanic-continental climate (i.e. longitudinal) was also significantly variable during glacial cycles with important ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Říčanová Š,Koshev Y,Říčan O,Ćosić N,Ćirović D,Sedláček F,Bryja J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonrandom mating can structure populations and has important implications for population-level processes. Investigating how and why mating deviates from random is important for understanding evolutionary processes as well as informing conservation and management. Prior to the implementation of parentage analyses, unde...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moore JA,Xu R,Frank K,Draheim H,Scribner KT

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diversifying selection on metabolic pathways can reduce intraspecific gene flow and promote population divergence. An opportunity to explore this arises from mitonuclear discordance observed in an Australian bird Eopsaltria australis. Across >1500 km, nuclear differentiation is low and latitudinally structured by isol...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Morales HE,Pavlova A,Joseph L,Sunnucks P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that phenotypic convergence and genetic convergence are widespread in nature implies that evolution is at least somewhat predictable. But to what extent and under what circumstances? In other words, how predictable is evolutionary predictability? Answering this question requires going beyond documentin...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Linnen CR

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Organisms often respond to environmental changes by producing alternative phenotypes. Epigenetic processes such as DNA methylation may contribute to environmentally induced phenotypic variation by modifying gene expression. Changes in DNA methylation, unlike DNA mutations, can be influenced by the environment; they ar...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Angers B,Castonguay E,Massicotte R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity and population structure of Arabidopsis thaliana populations from Norway were studied and compared to a worldwide sample of A. thaliana to investigate the demographic history and elucidate possible colonization routes of populations at the northernmost species limit. We genotyped 282 individuals ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lewandowska-Sabat AM,Fjellheim S,Rognli OA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies of the interaction between host and symbiont in a maturing symbiotic organ have presented a challenge for most animal-bacterial associations. Advances in the rearing of the host squid Euprymna scolopes have enabled us to explore the relationship between a defect in symbiont light production and la...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Koch EJ,Miyashiro T,McFall-Ngai MJ,Ruby EG

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:The ecosystem service of insect pest regulation by natural enemies, such as primary parasitoids, may be enhanced by the presence of uncultivated, semi-natural habitats within agro-ecosystems, although quantifying such host-parasitoid interactions is difficult. Here, we use rRNA 16S gene sequencing to assess both the l...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Derocles SA,Le Ralec A,Besson MM,Maret M,Walton A,Evans DM,Plantegenest M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome divergence is greatly influenced by gene flow during early stages of speciation. As populations differentiate, geographic barriers can constrain gene flow and so affect the dynamics of divergence and speciation. Current geography, specifically disjunction and continuity of ranges, is often used to predict the h...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Peñalba JV,Joseph L,Moritz C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation remains a central enigma in biology, and nowhere is this more apparent than in shallow tropical seas where biodiversity rivals that of tropical rainforests. Obvious barriers to gene flow are few and most marine species have a highly dispersive larval stage, which should greatly decrease opportunities for sp...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bird CE,Holland BS,Bowen BW,Toonen RJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lady's slipper orchids (Cypripedium spp.) are rare terrestrial plants that grow throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Like all orchids, they require mycorrhizal fungi for germination and seedling nutrition. The nutritional relationships of adult Cypripedium mycorrhizae are unclear; however, Cypripedium distrib...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Shefferson RP,Weiss M,Kull T,Taylor DL

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:Investigating complex parasitic life cycles is important for understanding the major fitness components that drive the evolution of host-parasite systems. The rare condition of heterotrophic heteronomy, in which the sexes utilize disparate host taxa, is a poorly understood complex parasitic lifestyle. One of only two ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hayward A,McMahon DP,Kathirithamby J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore population genetic structure in phyllostomid bats (Ardops nichollsi, Brachyphylla cavernarum and Artibeus jamaicensis) from the northern Lesser Antilles by investigating the degree to which island populations are genetically differentiated. Our hypothesis, that the island populations are genetically distinc...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Carstens BC,Sullivan J,Davalos LM,Larsen PA,Pedersen SC

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular markers have proved extremely useful in resolving mating patterns within individual populations of a number of species, but little is known about how genetic mating systems might vary geographically within a species. Here we use microsatellite markers to compare patterns of sneaked fertilization and mating s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jones AG,Walker D,Lindström K,Kvarnemo C,Avise JC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A substantial proportion of the primary productivity in grassland ecosystems is allocated belowground, sustaining an abundant and diverse community of microbes and soil invertebrates. These belowground communities drive many important ecosystem functions and are responsive to a variety of environmental changes. Nemato...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jones KL,Todd TC,Wall-Beam JL,Coolon JD,Blair JM,Herman MA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divergent life history strategies occur in steelhead or rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, and many populations produce both migrant (anadromous fish that move to the ocean after rearing) and resident (do not migrate and remain in fresh water) individuals. Mechanisms leading to each type are only partially understood;...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sutherland BJ,Hanson KC,Jantzen JR,Koop BF,Smith CT

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Edaphic specialization is one of the main drivers of plant diversification and has multifaceted effects on population dynamics. Carex angustisquama is a sedge plant growing only on heavily acidified soil in solfatara fields, where only extremophytes can survive. Because of the lack of closely related species in simila...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nagasawa K,Setoguchi H,Maki M,Goto H,Fukushima K,Isagi Y,Suyama Y,Matsuo A,Tsunamoto Y,Sawa K,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferences regarding hybridization rely on genetic markers to differentiate parental taxa from one another. Intersimple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers are based on single-primer PCR reactions where the primer sequence is derived from di- and trinucleotide repeats. These markers have successfully been used to assay gen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wolfe AD,Xiang QY,Kephart SR

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of species diversity to emergent, ecological properties of communities is increasingly appreciated, but the importance of within-species genetic diversity for analogous emergent properties of populations is only just becoming apparent. Here, the properties and effects of genetic variation on predation r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Koh KS,Matz C,Tan CH,LE HL,Rice SA,Marshall DJ,Steinberg PD,Kjelleberg S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic divergence of populations in the presence of gene flow is a central theme in speciation research. Theory predicts that divergence can happen with full range overlap - in sympatry - driven by ecological factors, but there are few empirical examples of how ecologically divergent selection can overcome gene flow ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kaiser TS,von Haeseler A,Tessmar-Raible K,Heckel DG

更新日期：2021-01-07 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：:The climbing orchid Erythrorchis altissima is the largest mycoheterotroph in the world. Although previous in vitro work suggests that E. altissima has a unique symbiosis with wood-decaying fungi, little is known about how this giant orchid meets its carbon and nutrient demands exclusively via mycorrhizal fungi. In thi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ogura-Tsujita Y,Gebauer G,Xu H,Fukasawa Y,Umata H,Tetsuka K,Kubota M,Schweiger JM,Yamashita S,Maekawa N,Maki M,Isshiki S,Yukawa T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chilo suppressalis (Walker) displays significant geographical differences in ecological preference that may be congruent with patterns of molecular variation. To test this, we collected and analysed 381 individuals of this species from cultivated rice at 18 localities in China during the rice-growing season of 2005-20...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Meng XF,Shi M,Chen XX

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents genetic evidence that whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are comprised of at least two populations that rarely mix and is the first to document a population expansion. Relatively high genetic structure is found when comparing sharks from the Gulf of Mexico with sharks from the Indo-Pacific. If mixing o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vignaud TM,Maynard JA,Leblois R,Meekan MG,Vázquez-Juárez R,Ramírez-Macías D,Pierce SJ,Rowat D,Berumen ML,Beeravolu C,Baksay S,Planes S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00