Perspective.

abstract：:Oryza rufipogon Griff. is the most agriculturally important but seriously endangered wild rice species. To better estimate how genetic structure can be used to obtained a conservation perspective of the species, genetic variability at six polymorphic microsatellite DNA loci was examined. High levels of genetic variabi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gao L

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, there is much debate on the genetic architecture of quantitative traits in wild populations. Is trait variation influenced by many genes of small effect or by a few genes of major effect? Where is additive genetic variation located in the genome? Do the same loci cause similar phenotypic variation in differ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Santure AW,Poissant J,De Cauwer I,van Oers K,Robinson MR,Quinn JL,Groenen MA,Visser ME,Sheldon BC,Slate J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate is one of the most important drivers of local adaptation in forest tree species. Standing levels of genetic diversity and structure within and among natural populations of forest trees are determined by the interplay between climatic heterogeneity and the balance between selection and gene flow. To investigate...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mosca E,Eckert AJ,Di Pierro EA,Rocchini D,La Porta N,Belletti P,Neale DB

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific mutualism can evolve when specific lineages of different species tend to be associated with each other from one generation to the next. Different maternally transmitted endosymbionts occurring within the same cytoplasmic lineage fulfil this requirement. Drosophila neotestacea is infected with maternally ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jaenike J,Stahlhut JK,Boelio LM,Unckless RL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Army ants are among the top arthropod predators and considered keystone species in tropical ecosystems. During daily mass raids with many thousand workers, army ants hunt live prey, likely exerting strong top-down control on prey species. Many tropical sites exhibit a high army ant species diversity (>20 species), sug...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hoenle PO,Blüthgen N,Brückner A,Kronauer DJC,Fiala B,Donoso DA,Smith MA,Ospina Jara B,von Beeren C

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a long tradition of artificially stocking lakes and rivers with fish in the hope to increase the quality and amount of fish that can be harvested. The animals used for stocking often originate in distant hatcheries or hatcheries that breed fish from remote regions. This stocking practice could have effects on...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Englbrecht CC,Schliewen U,Tautz D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typha glauca represents a significant portion of the biomass of the wetlands surrounding the Great Lakes, USA. It is generally accepted to be a form of hybrid between T. latifolia and T. angustifolia, which itself appears to be an exotic introduction from Europe. Based on morphological and isozyme data, conflicting th...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kuehn MM,Minor JE,White BN

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ips typographus and Pityogenes chalcographus are two sympatric Palearctic bark beetle species with wide distribution ranges. As both species are comparable in biology, life history, and habitat, including sharing the same host, Picea abies, they provide excellent models for applying a comparative approach in which to ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bertheau C,Schuler H,Arthofer W,Avtzis DN,Mayer F,Krumböck S,Moodley Y,Stauffer C

更新日期：2013-06-01 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 repeated evolution of similar phenotypes by similar mechanisms can be indicative of local adaptation, constraints or biases in the evolutionary process. Little is known about the incidence of physiological convergence in natural populations, so here we test whether energy metabolism in 'dwarf' and 'normal' Lake Wh...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dalziel AC,Laporte M,Rougeux C,Guderley H,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of speciation remains a fundamental topic in evolutionary biology. Numerous models of speciation have been proposed and they are as diverse and colourful as the scientists who conceived them (Coyne & Orr 2004). One of the more controversial theories has been the 'stasipatric speciation' model, proposed by ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kearney M,Hewitt G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early stages of invasion involve demographic bottlenecks that may result in lower genetic variation in introduced populations as compared to source population/s. Low genetic variability may decrease the adaptive potential of such populations in their new environments. Previous population genetic studies of invasiv...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ciosi M,Miller NJ,Kim KS,Giordano R,Estoup A,Guillemaud T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) are the most polymorphic functional loci in mammalian populations, but little is known of Mhc variability in natural populations of nonmammalian vertebrates. To help extend such studies to birds and relatives, we present a pair of degenerate primers that amplify poly...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Edwards SV,Grahn M,Potts WK

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White clover is polymorphic for cyanogenesis (HCN production after tissue damage), and this herbivore defence polymorphism has served as a classic model for studying adaptive variation. The cyanogenic phenotype requires two interacting biochemical components; the presence/absence of each component is controlled by a s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kooyers NJ,Olsen KM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divergent host use has long been suspected to drive population differentiation and speciation in plant-feeding insects. Evaluating the contribution of divergent host use to genetic differentiation can be difficult, however, as dispersal limitation and population structure may also influence patterns of genetic variati...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bagley RK,Sousa VC,Niemiller ML,Linnen CR

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) is a highly virulent lagovirus endemic in Europe and Australasian populations of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus. It has also caused several unexplained disease outbreaks in domestic European rabbits in North America. Non-pathogenic spread of RHDV leading to persiste...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Peacock D,Mutze G,Sinclair R,Kovaliski J,Cooke B

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carabid beetle Pterostichus melanarius is a major natural enemy of pests, such as aphids and slugs in agricultural systems. Earthworms are a dominant non-pest component of the diet of P. melanarius which help sustain the beetles during periods when the pest population is low or absent. In this study we wanted to t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： King RA,Vaughan IP,Bell JR,Bohan DA,Symondson WO

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding ecological divergence of morphologically similar but genetically distinct species - previously considered as a single morphospecies - is of key importance in evolutionary ecology and conservation biology. Despite their morphological similarity, cryptic species may have evolved distinct adaptations. If su...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Leys M,Keller I,Robinson CT,Räsänen K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the use of single nucleotide polymorphisms for evolutionary and population genetics. We tested the efficacy of one of the available single nucleotide polymorphism techniques, single-base extension, in distinguishing four cryptic species of Microtus. Sequence data were available for these s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Belfiore NM,Hoffman FG,Baker RJ,Dewoody JA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia is a common heritable bacterial symbiont in insects. Its evolutionary success lies in the diverse phenotypic effects it has on its hosts coupled to its propensity to move between host species over evolutionary timescales. In a survey of natural host-symbiont associations in a range of Drosophila species, we ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Martinez J,Tolosana I,Ok S,Smith S,Snoeck K,Day JP,Jiggins FM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replicated ecological gradients are prime systems to study processes of molecular evolution underlying ecological divergence. Here, we investigated the repeated adaptation of the neotropical fish Poecilia mexicana to habitats containing toxic hydrogen sulphide (H2 S) and compared two population pairs of sulphide-adapt...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pfenninger M,Patel S,Arias-Rodriguez L,Feldmeyer B,Riesch R,Plath M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been long assumed that abiotic factors (i.e., geography and climate) dominate the ecological and evolutionary processes underlying the distribution of species, lineages and genes at broad spatial scales and, as a result, the study of interspecific interactions has largely been overlooked in biogeography researc...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ortego J,Knowles LL

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:The genetic variation across a species' range is an important factor in speciation and conservation, yet searching for general patterns and underlying causes remains challenging. While the majority of comparisons between central and marginal populations have revealed a general central-marginal (C-M) decline in genetic...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Guo Q

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed genetic variation within and between populations of the common ash from Bulgaria in order to extract biological information useful in the context of conservation management of eastern European genetic resources of noble hardwood species. A total of 321 trees from three regions of Bulgaria were typed at six...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Heuertz M,Hausman JF,Tsvetkov I,Frascaria-Lacoste N,Vekemans X

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals are generally predicted to avoid inbreeding because of detrimental fitness effects. However, several recent studies have shown that limited inbreeding is tolerated by some vertebrate species. Here, we examine the costs and benefits of inbreeding in a largely polygynous rodent, the yellow-bellied marmot (Ma...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Olson LE,Blumstein DT,Pollinger JR,Wayne RK

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological effects of climate change have been shown in most major taxonomic groups; however, the evolutionary consequences are less well-documented. Adaptation to new climatic conditions offers a potential long-term mechanism for species to maintain viability in rapidly changing environments, but mammalian exampl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Waterhouse MD,Erb LP,Beever EA,Russello MA

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Agroforestry ecosystems may be an important resource for conservation and sustainable use of tropical trees, but little is known of the genetic diversity they contain. Inga edulis, a widespread indigenous fruit tree in South America, is used as a model to assess the maintenance of genetic diversity in five planted vs....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hollingsworth PM,Dawson IK,Goodall-Copestake WP,Richardson JE,Weber JC,Sotelo Montes C,Pennington RT

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tectonic movement at the boundary of the Indo-Australian and Pacific Plates during the Miocene and Pliocene is recognized as a driving force for invertebrate speciation in New Zealand. Two endemic freshwater crayfish (koura) species, Paranephrops planifrons White 1842 and Paranephrops zealandicus White 1842, represent...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Apte S,Smith PJ,Wallis GP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00