Do male moor frogs (Rana arvalis) lek with kin?

abstract：:Microbial taxa range from being ubiquitous and abundant across space to extremely rare and endemic, depending on their ecophysiology and on different processes acting locally or regionally. However, little is known about how cosmopolitan or rare taxa combine to constitute communities and whether environmental variatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ruiz-González C,Logares R,Sebastián M,Mestre M,Rodríguez-Martínez R,Galí M,Sala MM,Acinas SG,Duarte CM,Gasol JM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both historical and contemporary processes influence the genetic structure of species, but the relative roles of such processes are still difficult to access. Population genetic studies of species with recent evolutionary histories such as the New Zealand endemic scallop Pecten novaezelandiae (<1 Ma) permit testing of...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Silva CN,Gardner JP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geographic distributions of marine fishes have been shaped by ancient vicariance and ongoing dispersal events. Some species exhibit anti-equatorial distributions, inhabiting temperate regions on both sides of the tropics while being absent from equatorial latitudes. The perciform fish Microcanthus strigatus (the s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Tea YK,Van Der Wal C,Ludt WB,Gill AC,Lo N,Ho SYW

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Gene transcription variation is known to contribute to disease susceptibility and adaptation, but we currently know very little about how contemporary natural selection shapes transcript abundance. Here, we propose a novel analytical framework to quantify the strength and form of ongoing natural selection at the trans...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ahmad F,Debes PV,Nousiainen I,Kahar S,Pukk L,Gross R,Ozerov M,Vasemägi A

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic diversity is the evolutionary foundation for adaptation to environmental change and thus is essential to consider in conservation planning. Island species are ideal for investigating the evolutionary drivers of genomic diversity, in part because of the potential for biological replicates. Here, we use genome d...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Brüniche-Olsen A,Kellner KF,DeWoody JA

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:The evolution of incompatibilities between eggs and sperm is thought to play important roles in establishing and maintaining reproductive isolation among species of broadcast-spawning marine invertebrates. However, the effectiveness of gametic isolation in initiating the speciation process and/or in limiting the intro...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Addison JA,Pogson GH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the consequences of barriers, stream architecture and putative dispersal capability on levels of genetic differentiation among populations of the freshwater fish Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum. Seven polymorphic allozyme loci and sequences of a 498-bp fragment of the ATPase 6 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McGlashan DJ,Hughes JM

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:One of the most striking and consistent results in speciation genomics is the heterogeneous divergence observed across the genomes of closely related species. This pattern was initially attributed to different levels of gene exchange-with divergence preserved at loci generating a barrier to gene flow but homogenized a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Field DL,Fraïsse C

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many vertebrates form monogamous pairs to mate and care for their offspring. However, genetic tools have increasingly shown that offspring often arise from matings outside of the monogamous pair bond. Social monogamy is relatively common in coral reef fishes, but there have been few studies that have confirmed monogam...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rueger T,Harrison HB,Gardiner NM,Berumen ML,Jones GP

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Recently evolved species typically share genetic variation across their genomes due to incomplete lineage sorting and/or ongoing gene flow. Given only subtle allele frequency differences at most loci and the expectation that divergent selection may affect only a tiny fraction of the genome, distinguishing closely rela...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lavretsky P,DaCosta JM,Sorenson MD,McCracken KG,Peters JL

更新日期：2019-05-01 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 factors that control the assembly and composition of endophyte communities across plant hosts remains poorly understood. This is especially true for endophyte communities inhabiting inner tree bark, one of the least studied components of the plant microbiome. Here, we test the hypothesis that bark of different tre...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pellitier PT,Zak DR,Salley SO

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The merger of two or more divergent genomes within an allopolyploid nucleus can facilitate speciation and adaptive evolution in flowering plants. Widespread changes to gene expression have been shown to result from interspecific hybridisation and polyploidy in a number of plant species, and attention has now shifted t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hegarty MJ,Batstone T,Barker GL,Edwards KJ,Abbott RJ,Hiscock SJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent phenotypes are testament to the role of natural selection in evolution. However, little is known about whether convergence in phenotype extends to convergence at the molecular level. We use the independent losses of floral anthocyanins in columbines (Aquilegia) to determine the degree of molecular convergen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Whittall JB,Voelckel C,Kliebenstein DJ,Hodges SA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the availability of highly variable microsatellite loci, many previously elusive aspects of the lives of animals have been revealed. One important finding is that multiple paternity (MP) appears to be somewhat common throughout the metazoa. Frequently, along with the discovery of MP are assertions that it can inc...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Karl SA

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:Recombination rate is a heritable trait that varies among individuals. Despite the major impact of recombination rate on patterns of genetic diversity and the efficacy of selection, natural variation in this phenotype remains poorly characterized. We present a comparison of genetic maps, sampling 1212 meioses, from a ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wang RJ,Gray MM,Parmenter MD,Broman KW,Payseur BA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) copy number variation (CNV) has major physiological implications for all organisms, but how it varies for fungi, an ecologically ubiquitous and important group of microorganisms, has yet to be systemically investigated. Here, we examine rDNA CNV using an in silico read depth approach for 91 fungal...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lofgren LA,Uehling JK,Branco S,Bruns TD,Martin F,Kennedy PG

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major aim of this study was to compare the phylogeographic patterns of codistributed bats and small nonvolant Neotropical mammals. Cytochrome b sequences (mitochondrial DNA) were obtained for a total of 275 bats representing 17 species. The tissue samples were collected in coastal Brazil, and were available from M...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ditchfield AD

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：:The moss Ceratodon purpureus has long been used as a model system in plant development and physiology. However, the molecular population genetics of the species remains virtually unexplored. In this study, we used population genetic analyses of DNA sequence data from three unlinked loci (atpB-rbcL spacer, adk, and phy...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McDaniel SF,Shaw AJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common challenge in phylogenetic reconstruction is to find enough suitable genomic markers to reliably trace splitting events with short internodes. Here, we present phylogenetic analyses based on genomewide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of an enigmatic avian radiation, the subspecies complex of Afrocanaria...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gohli J,Leder EH,Garcia-Del-Rey E,Johannessen LE,Johnsen A,Laskemoen T,Popp M,Lifjeld JT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the potential for gene flow and genetic assimilation via hybridization between common and rare species of the terrestrial orchid genus Liparis, focusing specifically on sympatric and allopatric populations of the common Liparis kumokiri and the rare Liparis makinoana. We utilized analyses of genetic di...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chung MY,Nason JD,Chung MG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, experiences high levels of nonnatural mortality owing to interactions with commercial fisheries throughout its range. To accurately evaluate the significance of this bycatch, information on population structure is required. We have examined the population structure of this spec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rosel PE,France SC,Wang JY,Kocher TD

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The landscape of the Pilbara region of Western Australia has been relatively unchanged for 100 million years. The ancient river systems of this region might be expected to be sources of isolation and divergence for aquatic species. Hence, the occurrence of widespread groundwater taxa in this landscape offers the oppor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Finston TL,Johnson MS,Humphreys WF,Eberhard SM,Halse SA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weedy rice (Oryza spp.), a weedy relative of cultivated rice (O. sativa), infests and persists in cultivated rice fields worldwide. Many weedy rice populations have evolved similar adaptive traits, considered part of the 'agricultural weed syndrome', making this an ideal model to study the genetic basis of parallel ev...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Huang Z,Young ND,Reagon M,Hyma KE,Olsen KM,Jia Y,Caicedo AL

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00