Larvae of related Diptera species from thermally contrasting habitats exhibit continuous up-regulation of heat shock proteins and high thermotolerance.

abstract：:Factors ranging from ecological opportunity to genome composition might explain why only some lineages form adaptive radiations. While being rare, particular systems can provide natural experiments within an identical ecological setting where species numbers and phenotypic divergence in two closely related lineages ar...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Xiong P,Hulsey CD,Fruciano C,Wong WY,Nater A,Kautt AF,Simakov O,Pippel M,Kuraku S,Meyer A,Franchini P

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:New technologies promise to revolutionize the field of molecular ecology. This technological progress comes with its own set of challenges. Among the most important ones is the analysis and interpretation of the data in a way that tells us about the molecular causes of the phenotype of interest and its consequences. I...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Landry CR,Aubin-Horth N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial haplotype diversity in 27 populations of brown trout, Salmo trutta L., in Austria was investigated by sequencing the 5' end of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region. Although all populations are within the Danube drainage, 44% of all individuals carried Atlantic basin haplotypes. It is argued that...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Weiss S,Schlötterer C,Waidbacher H,Jungwirth M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of diversity in the marine ecosystem is poorly understood, given the relatively high potential for connectivity, especially for highly mobile species such as whales and dolphins. The killer whale (Orcinus orca) has a worldwide distribution, and individual social groups travel over a wide geographic range...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moura AE,Kenny JG,Chaudhuri R,Hughes MA,J Welch A,Reisinger RR,de Bruyn PJ,Dahlheim ME,Hall N,Hoelzel AR

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the physiological basis of local adaptation to drought in Boechera holboellii, a perennial relative of Arabidopsis thaliana, and used cDNA-AFLPs to identify candidate genes showing differential expression in these populations. We compared two populations of B. holboellii from contrasting water environments ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Knight CA,Vogel H,Kroymann J,Shumate A,Witsenboer H,Mitchell-Olds T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) is a broadly distributed European conifer tree whose history has been intensively studied by means of fossil records to infer the location of full-glacial refugia and the main routes of postglacial colonization. Here we use recently compiled fossil pollen data as a template to e...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Tollefsrud MM,Kissling R,Gugerli F,Johnsen Ø,Skrøppa T,Cheddadi R,Van der Knaap WO,Latałowa M,Terhürne-Berson R,Litt T,Geburek T,Brochmann C,Sperisen C

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary origin of extant species in the Neotropics, one of the most biodiverse regions of the world, has been widely debated. One hypothesis is that neotropical species emerged primarily during the Quaternary (the last approximately 2 million years), favoured by alternating glacial/interglacial climates. An o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rull V

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oceanic islands have been a test ground for evolutionary theory, but here, we focus on the possibilities for evolutionary study created by offshore islands. These can be colonized through various means and by a wide range of species, including those with low dispersal capabilities. We use morphology, modern and ancien...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Martínková N,Barnett R,Cucchi T,Struchen R,Pascal M,Pascal M,Fischer MC,Higham T,Brace S,Ho SY,Quéré JP,O'Higgins P,Excoffier L,Heckel G,Hoelzel AR,Dobney KM,Searle JB

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mate-choice theory predicts different optimal mating systems depending on resource availability and habitat stability. Regions with limited resources are thought to promote monogamy. We tested predictions of monogamy in a social rodent, the hoary marmot (Marmota caligata), at the northern climatic extreme of its distr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kyle CJ,Karels TJ,Davis CS,Mebs S,Clark B,Strobeck C,Hik DS

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species are impacted by climate change at both ecological and evolutionary time scales. Studies in northern continents have provided abundant evidence of dramatic shifts in distributions of species subsequent to the last glacial maximum (LGM), particularly at high latitudes. However, little is known about the history ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lessa EP,D'Elía G,Pardiñas UF

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation is one of the major contributors to the loss of biodiversity worldwide. However, relatively little is known about its more immediate impacts on within-patch population processes such as social structure and mating systems, whose alteration may play an important role in extinction risk. We investi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Banks SC,Ward SJ,Lindenmayer DB,Finlayson GR,Lawson SJ,Taylor AC

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：: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：:The ecological significance of epigenetic variation has been generally inferred from studies on model plants under artificial conditions, but the importance of epigenetic differences between individuals as a source of intraspecific diversity in natural plant populations remains essentially unknown. This study investig...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Medrano M,Herrera CM,Bazaga P

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical rainforest trees typically occur in low population densities and rely on animals for cross-pollination. It is of conservation interest therefore to understand how rainforest fragmentation may alter the pollination and breeding structure of remnant trees. Previous studies of the Amazonian tree Dinizia excelsa ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dick CW,Etchelecu G,Austerlitz F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestication of animals imposes strong targeted selection for desired traits but can also result in unintended selection due to new domestic environments. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salmar) was domesticated in the 1970s and has subsequently been selected for faster growth in systematic breeding programmes. More recently,...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jin Y,Olsen RE,Harvey TN,Østensen MA,Li K,Santi N,Vadstein O,Bones AM,Vik JO,Sandve SR,Olsen Y

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population differentiation (PD) and ecological association (EA) tests have recently emerged as prominent statistical methods to investigate signatures of local adaptation using population genomic data. Based on statistical models, these genomewide testing procedures have attracted considerable attention as tools to id...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： François O,Martins H,Caye K,Schoville SD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies examining the effects of anthropogenic habitat fragmentation on both neutral and adaptive genetic variability are still scarce. We compared tadpole fitness-related traits (viz. survival probability and body size) among populations of the common frog (Rana temporaria) from fragmented (F) and continuous (C) habi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Johansson M,Primmer CR,Merilä J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are about to become one of the most popular genetic markers for genetic model organisms. To test the usefulness of SNPs for estimating genetic diversity, we surveyed three genomic regions in two Drosophila melanogaster populations, one from Africa and one European, collected in A...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schlötterer C,Harr B

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formal testing of mating system theories with empirical data is important for evaluating the relative importance of different processes in shaping mating systems in wild populations. Here, we present a generally applicable probability modelling framework to test the role of local mate availability in determining a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Blyton MD,Banks SC,Peakall R,Lindenmayer DB

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence suggests that average telomere length reflects previous stress and predicts subsequent survival across vertebrate species. In humans, leucocyte telomere length (LTL) is consistently shorter during adulthood in males than in females, although the causes of this sex difference and its generality to oth...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Watson RL,Bird EJ,Underwood S,Wilbourn RV,Fairlie J,Watt K,Salvo-Chirnside E,Pilkington JG,Pemberton JM,McNeilly TN,Froy H,Nussey DH

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The grey wolf (Canis lupus) and coyote (C. latrans) are highly mobile carnivores that disperse over great distances in search of territories and mates. Previous genetic studies have shown little geographical structure in either species. However, population genetic structure is also influenced by past isolation events ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vila C,Amorim IR,Leonard JA,Posada D,Castroviejo J,Petrucci-Fonseca F,Crandall KA,Ellegren H,Wayne RK

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the genetic basis of phenotypic traits and the selection pressures acting on them are central to our understanding of the evolution and conservation of wild populations. However, obtaining such evolutionary-related parameters is not an easy task as it requires accurate information on both relatedness among ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Garant D,Kruuk LE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attine ants are a monophyletic lineage that switched to fungus farming ca. 55-60 MYA. They have become a model for the study of complex symbioses after additional fungal and bacterial symbionts were discovered, but their abdominal endosymbiotic bacteria remain largely unknown. Here, we present a comparative microb...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sapountzis P,Nash DR,Schiøtt M,Boomsma JJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a de novo assembly of a eukaryote transcriptome using 454 pyrosequencing data. The Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) is a prominent species in population biology but had no previous genomic data. Sequencing runs using two normalized complementary DNA collections from...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vera JC,Wheat CW,Fescemyer HW,Frilander MJ,Crawford DL,Hanski I,Marden JH

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Interacting species of pollinator-host systems, especially the obligate ones, are sensitive to habitat fragmentation, due to the nature of mutual dependence. Comparative studies of genetic structure can provide insights into how habitat fragmentation contributes to patterns of genetic divergence among populations of t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Liu M,Zhang J,Chen Y,Compton SG,Chen XY

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the ecological significance of the mutualistic relationship between Symbiodiniaceae and reef-building corals, the molecular interactions during establishment of this relationship are not well understood. This is particularly true of the transcriptional changes that occur in the symbiont. In the current study, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mohamed AR,Andrade N,Moya A,Chan CX,Negri AP,Bourne DG,Ying H,Ball EE,Miller DJ

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00