Patterns of hybridization and population genetic structure in the terrestrial orchids Liparis kumokiri and Liparis makinoana (Orchidaceae) in sympatric populations.

abstract：:A Two endemic groundwater arthropod crustacean species, Crangonyx islandicus and Crymostygius thingvallensis, were recently discovered on the mid-Atlantic volcanic island of Iceland. The extent of morphological differences from closest relatives, endemism, along with the geographic isolation of Iceland and its complet...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kornobis E,Pálsson S,Kristjánsson BK,Svavarsson J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogeographical history of the rare marsh orchid Anacamptis palustris (Orchidaceae) was reconstructed using highly polymorphic chloroplast minisatellite and microsatellite loci. Allelic variation at chloroplast microsatellite loci was due to length variation in poly(A/T) repeats and was informative on a regional...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cozzolino S,Cafasso D,Pellegrino G,Musacchio A,Widmer A

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Elucidating the complex evolutionary armory that mosquitoes deploy against insecticides is crucial to maintain the effectiveness of insecticide-based interventions. Here, we deciphered the role of a 6.5-kb structural variation (SV) in driving cytochrome P450-mediated pyrethroid resistance in the malaria vector, Anophe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mugenzi LMJ,Menze BD,Tchouakui M,Wondji MJ,Irving H,Tchoupo M,Hearn J,Weedall GD,Riveron JM,Cho-Ngwa F,Wondji CS

更新日期：2020-11-01 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 deadly poisonous Amanita phalloides is common along the west coast of North America. Death cap mushrooms are especially abundant in habitats around the San Francisco Bay, California, but the species grows as far south as Los Angeles County and north to Vancouver Island, Canada. At different times, various authors ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pringle A,Adams RI,Cross HB,Bruns TD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vertebrates, the genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are among the most debated candidates accounting for co-evolutionary processes of host-parasite interaction at the molecular level. The exceptionally high allelic polymorphism found in MHC loci is believed to be maintained by pathogen-driven selec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Meyer-Lucht Y,Sommer S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As climate changes, sea surface temperature anomalies that negatively impact coral reef organisms continue to increase in frequency and intensity. Yet, despite widespread coral mortality, genetic diversity remains high even in those coral species listed as threatened. While this is good news in many ways, it presents ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Parkinson JE,Bartels E,Devlin-Durante MK,Lustic C,Nedimyer K,Schopmeyer S,Lirman D,LaJeunesse TC,Baums IB

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread species that exhibit both high gene flow and the capacity to occupy heterogeneous environments make excellent models for examining local selection processes along environmental gradients. Here we evaluate the influence of temperature and landscape variables on genetic connectivity and signatures of local ad...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Yadav S,Stow AJ,Dudaniec RY

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of host-parasitoid associations can be tenuous using conventional methods. Molecular techniques are well placed to identify trophic links and resolve host-parasitoid associations. Establishment of the highly invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), outside Asia has p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gariepy TD,Haye T,Zhang J

更新日期：2014-08-01 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

abstract：:Highly expressed proteins can exhibit relatively small material costs, in terms of the quantities of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) or sulphur (S) atoms they contain. This 'elemental sparing' probably reflects selection to reduce the quantities of potentially growth-limiting elements in abundant proteins, but the evolutiona...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bragg JG,Quigg A,Raven JA,Wagner A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protists, the most diverse eukaryotes, are largely considered to be free-living bacterivores, but vast numbers of taxa are known to parasitize plants or animals. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) approaches now commonly replace cultivation-based approaches in studying soil protists, but insights into common biases asso...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Geisen S,Laros I,Vizcaíno A,Bonkowski M,de Groot GA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extra-pair copulations (EPCs; copulations outside the pair bond) are widespread in birds and may result in extra-pair fertilizations (EPFs). To increase reproductive success, males should not only seek to gain EPFs, but also prevent their own females from gaining EPFs. Although males could reduce the number of EPCs by...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Komdeur J,Burke T,Richardson DS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now common for population geneticists to estimate FST for a large number of loci across the genome, before testing for selected loci as being outliers to the FST distribution. One surprising result of such FST scans is the often high proportion (>1% and sometimes >10%) of outliers detected, and this is often int...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bierne N,Roze D,Welch JJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fragments were prepared from samples of Calonectris diomedea (Cory's shearwater, Aves) and Haemonchus contortus (Nematoda) DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using decamers containing two restriction enzyme sites as primers. Six of 19 studied RAPD fragments probably originat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rabouam C,Comes AM,Bretagnolle V V,Humbert JF,Periquet G,Bigot Y

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-altered environments can shape the evolution of organisms. Fungi are no exception, although little is known about how they withstand anthropogenic pollution. Here, we document adaptation in the mycorrhizal fungus Suillus luteus driven by soil heavy metal contamination. Genome scans across individuals from recent...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bazzicalupo AL,Ruytinx J,Ke YH,Coninx L,Colpaert JV,Nguyen NH,Vilgalys R,Branco S

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：: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：:Since 2005, advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized biological science. The analysis of environmental DNA through the use of specific gene markers such as species-specific DNA barcodes has been a key application of next-generation sequencing technologies in ecological and environmental ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Shokralla S,Spall JL,Gibson JF,Hajibabaei M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the genetic structure of isolated or fragmented species is of critical importance when planning a suitable conservation strategy. In this study, we use nuclear and chloroplast SSRs (simple sequence repeats) to investigate the population genetics of an extremely rare sunflower, Helianthus verticillatus Smal...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ellis JR,Pashley CH,Burke JM,McCauley DE

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-pathogen interactions are of particular interest in studies of the interplay between population dynamics and natural selection. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes of demographically fluctuating species are highly suitable markers for such studies, because they are involved in initiating the immune r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bryja J,Charbonnel N,Berthier K,Galan M,Cosson JF

更新日期：2007-12-01 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

abstract：:Anthropogenic habitat fragmentation of species that live in naturally patchy metapopulations such as mountaintops or sky islands experiences two levels of patchiness. Effects of such multilevel patchiness on species have rarely been examined. Metapopulation theory suggests that patchy habitats could have varied impact...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Robin VV,Gupta P,Thatte P,Ramakrishnan U

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving long-term persistence of species in urbanized landscapes requires characterizing population genetic structure to understand and manage the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on connectivity. Urbanization over the past century in coastal southern California has caused both precipitous loss of coastal sage s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Barr KR,Kus BE,Preston KL,Howell S,Perkins E,Vandergast AG

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicago citrina is an endangered western Mediterranean endemic that grows only on small islets of the Balearic archipelago and off the eastern Spanish coast. Only 10 isolated subpopulations are currently known (four from Ibiza, three from Cabrera, two from Columbretes and one from an offshore islet in northern Alican...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Juan A,Crespo MB,Cowan RS,Lexer C,Fay MF

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:Landscape genetics is an important framework for investigating the influence of spatial pattern on ecological process. Nevertheless, the standard analytic frameworks in landscape genetics have difficulty evaluating hypotheses about spatial processes in dynamic landscapes. We use a predictive hypothesis-driven approach...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pavlacky DC Jr,Goldizen AW,Prentis PJ,Nicholls JA,Lowe AJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation to new environments often occurs in the face of gene flow. Under these conditions, gene flow and recombination can impede adaptation by breaking down linkage disequilibrium between locally adapted alleles. Theory predicts that this decay can be halted or slowed if adaptive alleles are tightly linked in regi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Samuk K,Owens GL,Delmore KE,Miller SE,Rennison DJ,Schluter D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00