The effect of multiple paternity on the genetically effective size of a population.

abstract：:Ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal communities may be shaped by both deterministic and stochastic processes, potentially influencing ecosystem development and function. We evaluated community assembly processes for EcM fungi of Pseudotsuga menziesii among 12 sites up to 400 km apart in southwest British Columbia (Canada) by...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kranabetter JM,Hawkins BJ,Jones MD,Robbins S,Dyer T,Li T

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I derive the equilibrium values of sex-specific FST parameters, in an island model for a dioecious species with sex-biased dispersal and binomial distribution of family size before dispersal (as assumed in a Wright-Fisher population). I show that FST may take different values among males and among females whenever dis...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vitalis R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two sister species of leaf beetles with overlapping host associations, Chrysochus auratus and C. cobaltinus, we established diet breadth and food preference of local populations for evaluation together with genetic differentiation between populations. While C. auratus turned out to be monophagous on the same plant ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dobler S,Farrell BD

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:A phylogeny of mainland eastern Australian scrubwrens (Sericornis citreogularis, S. frontalis, S. keri, S. magnirostris and S. beccarii) was constructed using presence or absence of phylogenetically informative restriction sites in 15 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotypes. MtDNA sequence divergences between species wer...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Joseph L,Moritz C

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring heat shock (HS) during pupation induces abnormal wing development in Drosophila; we examined factors affecting the severity of this induction. The proportion of HS-surviving adults with abnormal wings varied with HS duration and intensity, and with the pupal age or stage at HS administration. Pretr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Williams KD,Helin AB,Posluszny J,Roberts SP,Feder ME

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting and controlling infectious disease epidemics is a major challenge facing the management of agriculture, human and wildlife health. Co-evolutionarily derived patterns of local adaptation among pathogen populations have the potential to generate variation in disease epidemiology; however, studies of local ada...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Parratt SR,Barrès B,Penczykowski RM,Laine AL

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palaeoclimatic events and biogeographical processes since the mid-Tertiary are believed to have strongly influenced the evolution and distribution of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of southeastern Australia. We examined the phylogeography of the temperate-adapted members of the Egernia whitii species group, a group ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chapple DG,Keogh JS,Hutchinson MN

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corals play a key role in ocean ecosystems and carbonate balance, but their molecular response to ocean acidification remains unclear. The only previous whole-transcriptome study (Moya et al. Molecular Ecology, 2012; 21, 2440) documented extensive disruption of gene expression, particularly of genes encoding skeletal ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moya A,Huisman L,Forêt S,Gattuso JP,Hayward DC,Ball EE,Miller DJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater planarians Dugesia japonica from three localities were examined for cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequence, karyotype and the presence of genital organ. The planarians from Mt Fujiwara in Japan were composed of two different groups; one revealed inter- and intraindividual COI gene heterogeneity,...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bessho Y,Tamura S,Hori H,Tanaka H,Ohama T,Osawa S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive radiations provide unique opportunities to test whether and how recent ecological and evolutionary diversification of host species structures the composition of entire bacterial communities. We used 16S rRNA gene sequencing of faecal samples to test for differences in the gut microbiota of six species of Puer...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ren T,Kahrl AF,Wu M,Cox RM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies using molecular markers have shown that some grey seal males may be gaining success through exhibiting alternative mating tactics. We estimated the probability of fertilization success of grey seal males exhibiting the primary tactic of female defence and one alternative tactic of mating with departing females...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lidgard DC,Boness DJ,Bowen WD,McMillan JI,Fleischer RC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied population polymorphism at a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II beta gene in the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). We found that: (i) a single population of P. maniculatus has significantly higher levels of DNA and protein sequence diversity than worldwide samples from homologous genes in ot...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Richman AD,Herrera LG,Nash D

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As populations diverge many processes can shape genomic patterns of differentiation. Regions of high differentiation can arise due to divergent selection acting on selected loci, genetic hitchhiking of nearby loci, or through repeated selection against deleterious alleles (linked background selection); this divergence...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lehnert SJ,Kess T,Bentzen P,Clément M,Bradbury IR

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres are dynamic DNA-protein structures that form protective caps at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes. Although initial telomere length is partly genetically determined, subsequent accelerated telomere shortening has been linked to elevated levels of oxidative stress. Recent studies show that short telomere len...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pauliny A,Wagner RH,Augustin J,Szép T,Blomqvist D

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epichloë endophytes are fungal symbionts of grasses that span a continuum including asexual mutualists that are vertically transmitted, obligately sexual pathogens that are horizontally transmitted, and mixed-strategy symbionts with both mutualistic and pathogenic capabilities. Here we show that processes of genome ev...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moon CD,Craven KD,Leuchtmann A,Clement SL,Schardl CL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene flow among incipient species can act as a creative or destructive force in the speciation process, generating variation on which natural selection can act while, potentially, undermining population divergence. The flowering plant genus Carex exhibits a rapid and relatively recent radiation with many species limit...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Maguilla E,Escudero M,Hipp AL,Luceño M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defence against pathogenic infection can take two forms: resistance and tolerance. Resistance is the ability of the host to limit a pathogen burden, whereas tolerance is the ability to limit the negative consequences of infection at a given level of infection intensity. Evolutionarily, a tolerance strategy that is ind...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Howick VM,Lazzaro BP

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the legume-rhizobia mutualism, the benefit each partner derives from the other depends on the genetic identity of both host and rhizobial symbiont. To gain insight into the extent of genome × genome interactions on hosts at the molecular level and to identify potential mechanisms responsible for the variation, we e...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Burghardt LT,Guhlin J,Chun CL,Liu J,Sadowsky MJ,Stupar RM,Young ND,Tiffin P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spawning success of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) was investigated, under near-natural conditions, in the Girnock Burn, an 8-km long tributary of the River Dee in Scotland. Employing minisatellite-based DNA profiling, mating outcomes were resolved over three spawning seasons by assigning parentage to progeny sample...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Taggart JB,McLaren IS,Hay DW,Webb JH,Youngson AF

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the distribution of genetic variation within and between seven subpopulations in a riparian population of Silene tatarica in northern Finland by using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. A Bayesian approach-based clustering program indicated that the marker data contained not only on...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Tero N,Aspi J,Siikamäki P,Jäkäläniemi A,Tuomi J

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of spatially explicit models of population dynamics to fisheries management and the design marine reserve network systems has been limited due to a lack of empirical estimates of larval dispersal. Here we compared assignment tests and parentage analysis for examining larval retention and connectivity u...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Saenz-Agudelo P,Jones GP,Thorrold SR,Planes S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-parasite relationships are likely to change over the coming decades in response to climate change and increased anthropogenic stressors. Understanding the genetic architecture of parasite resistance will aid prediction of species' responses to intensified parasite challenge. The gapeworm "Syngamus trachea" is pre...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lundregan SL,Niskanen AK,Muff S,Holand H,Kvalnes T,Ringsby TH,Husby A,Jensen H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants that produce dust seeds can recruit fungi to meet their earliest requirements for carbon and other nutrients. This germination strategy, termed initial mycoheterotrophy, has been well investigated among the orchid family, but there are numerous other plant lineages that have independently evolved mycoheterotrop...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hynson NA,Weiß M,Preiss K,Gebauer G,Treseder KK

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Recent studies show that soil eukaryotic diversity is immense and dominated by micro-organisms. However, it is unclear to what extent the processes that shape the distribution of diversity in plants and animals also apply to micro-organisms. Major diversification events in multicellular organisms have often been attri...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Singer D,Mitchell EAD,Payne RJ,Blandenier Q,Duckert C,Fernández LD,Fournier B,Hernández CE,Granath G,Rydin H,Bragazza L,Koronatova NG,Goia I,Harris LI,Kajukało K,Kosakyan A,Lamentowicz M,Kosykh NP,Vellak K,Lara E

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogeographic patterns in Macrodon ancylodon sampled from 12 locations across all its range were investigated using mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b sequences, and analysed together with patterns of morphometric differentiation. Populations of the North Brazil and the Brazil currents, with warmer waters, form a clade ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Santos S,Hrbek T,Farias IP,Schneider H,Sampaio I

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diet strongly influences the intestinal microbial communities through species sorting. Alternatively, these communicates may differ because of chance variation in local microbial exposures or species losses among allopatric host populations (i.e. ecological drift). We investigated how these forces shape enteric commun...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lankau EW,Hong PY,Mackie RI

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular stress response has long been the primary model for studying the molecular basis of thermal adaptation, yet the link between gene expression, RNA metabolism and physiological responses to thermal stress remains largely unexplored. We address this by comparing the transcriptional and physiological response...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Telonis-Scott M,Clemson AS,Johnson TK,Sgrò CM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated genetic variation in asexual polyploid members of the water flea Daphnia pulex complex from a set of 12 Bolivian high-altitude lakes. We used nuclear microsatellite markers to study genetic relationships among all encountered multilocus genotypes, and combined this with a phylogenetic approach using DN...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mergeay J,Aguilera X,Declerck S,Petrusek A,Huyse T,De Meester L

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00