Polymorphism of intron-1 in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene of Anopheles gambiae s.s. populations from Cameroon with emphasis on insecticide knockdown resistance mutations.

abstract：:At high altitude, the reduced availability of thermal energy and oxygen poses major challenges to organisms. Different species or populations have evolved similar solutions to these challenges, such as blood flow regulation in animals (Bouverot, 1985). Previous studies investigating such convergent adaptations have pr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mazel F

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：: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：:The Quaternary cold periods in Europe are thought to have heavily influenced the amount and distribution of intraspecific genetic variation in both animals and plants. The phylogeographies of 10 taxa, including mammals (Ursus arctos, Sorex spp., Crocidura suaveolens, Arvicola spp.), amphibians (Triturus spp.), arthrop...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Taberlet P,Fumagalli L,Wust-Saucy AG,Cosson JF

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasions comprise accidental evolutionary experiments, whose genetic compositions underlie relative success, spread and persistence in new habitats. However, little is known about whether, or how, their population genetic patterns change temporally and/or spatially across the invasion's history. Theory pre...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Snyder MR,Stepien CA

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:The black surfperch Embiotoca jacksoni and the striped surfperch E. lateralis (Embiotocidae, Perciformes) are livebearing temperate reef fishes that live sympatrically over a large portion of their distribution range, where they exhibit strong ecological competition. In order to assess whether mating strategies reflec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Reisser CM,Beldade R,Bernardi G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation can have important consequences for populations: high population genetic diversity is typically associated with ecological success. Some mechanisms that account for these benefits assume that local social groups with high genetic diversity are more successful than low-diversity groups. At the same ti...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Saltz JB,Alicuben ET,Grubman J,Harkenrider M,Megowan N,Nuzhdin SV

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelophylax esculentus is a hybridogenetic frog originating from matings between P. ridibundus (RR) and P. lessonae (LL). Typically, diploid hybrids (LR) live in sympatry with one of their parental species, upon which they depend for successful reproduction. In parts of their range, however, pure hybrid populations can...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Arioli M,Jakob C,Reyer HU

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic species such as cattle (Bos taurus taurus and B. t. indicus) represent attractive biological models to characterize the genetic basis of short-term evolutionary response to climate pressure induced by their post-domestication history. Here, using newly generated dense SNP genotyping data, we assessed the stru...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Flori L,Moazami-Goudarzi K,Alary V,Araba A,Boujenane I,Boushaba N,Casabianca F,Casu S,Ciampolini R,Coeur D'Acier A,Coquelle C,Delgado JV,El-Beltagi A,Hadjipavlou G,Jousselin E,Landi V,Lauvie A,Lecomte P,Ligda C,Mari

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbicides act as human-mediated novel selective agents and community disruptors, yet their full effects on eco-evolutionary dynamics in natural communities have only begun to be appreciated. Here, we synthesize how herbicide exposures can result in dramatic phenotypic and compositional shifts within communities at th...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Iriart V,Baucom RS,Ashman TL

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasions generally start from low initial population sizes, leading to reduced genetic variation in nuclear and especially mitochondrial DNA. Consequently, genetic approaches for the study of invasion history and population structure are difficult. An extreme example is the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratit...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Villablanca FX,Roderick GK,Palumbi SR

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:Widely distributed taxa provide an opportunity to compare biogeographic responses to climatic fluctuations on multiple continents and to investigate speciation. We conducted the most geographically and genomically comprehensive study to date of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the world's most widely distributed wild terr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Statham MJ,Murdoch J,Janecka J,Aubry KB,Edwards CJ,Soulsbury CD,Berry O,Wang Z,Harrison D,Pearch M,Tomsett L,Chupasko J,Sacks BN

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic architecture of local adaptation has been of central interest to evolutionary biologists since the modern synthesis. In addition to classic theory on the effect size of adaptive mutations by Fisher, Kimura and Orr, recent theory addresses the genetic architecture of local adaptation in the face of ongoing ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ferris KG,Barnett LL,Blackman BK,Willis JH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocellated antbird (Phaenostictus mcleannani) feeds in groups and therefore is an informative species in which to study the biological factors that modulate avian group living. These birds congregate at swarms of army ants to capture fleeing prey, and previous observations suggest that males may be philopatric, fee...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chaves-Campos J,DeWoody JA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population dynamics of a parasite depend on species traits, host dynamics and the environment. Those dynamics are reflected in the genetic structure of the population. Habitat fragmentation has a greater impact on parasites than on their hosts because resource distribution is increasingly fragmented for species at...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Couchoux C,Seppä P,van Nouhuys S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Leptynia hispanica stick insect species complex includes bisexuals, triploid and tetraploid parthenogenetic populations, suggesting that polyploidy has played a central role in the evolution of this complex. An analysis of karyotype, mitochondrial DNA (cox2) and nuclear DNA (ef1-alpha) markers was carried out to c...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ghiselli F,Milani L,Scali V,Passamonti M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The koala, Phascolarctos cinereus, is a geographically widespread species endemic to Australia, with three currently recognized subspecies: P.c. adustus, P.c. cinereus, and P.c. victor. Intraspecific variation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region was examined in over 200 animals from 16 representative popul...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Houlden BA,Costello BH,Sharkey D,Fowler EV,Melzer A,Ellis W,Carrick F,Baverstock PR,Elphinstone MS

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Fish have evolved a variety of sex-determining (SD) systems including male heterogamy (XY), female heterogamy (ZW) and environmental SD. Little is known about SD mechanisms of Sebastes rockfishes, a highly speciose genus of importance to evolutionary and conservation biology. Here, we characterize the sex determinatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Fowler BL,Buonaccorsi VP

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity and fine-scale population structure in the lichen-forming ascomycete Xanthoria parietina was investigated using sequence variation in part of the intergenic spacer (IGS) and the complete internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of the nuclear ribosomal DNA. Sampling included 213 and 225 individuals,...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lindblom L,Ekman S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies propose that Quaternary climatic cycles contracted and/or expanded the ranges of species and biomes. Strong expansion-contraction dynamics of biomes presume concerted demographic changes of associated fauna. The analysis of temporal concordance of demographic changes can be used to test the influence of Q...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gehara M,Garda AA,Werneck FP,Oliveira EF,da Fonseca EM,Camurugi F,Magalhães FM,Lanna FM,Sites JW Jr,Marques R,Silveira-Filho R,São Pedro VA,Colli GR,Costa GC,Burbrink FT

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:Arion vulgaris (syn. A. lusitanicus) is the most destructive pest slug in Europe. The species has been regarded a classic case of an ongoing biological invasion with negative economic and ecological impact in many European countries, but this status has recently been contested. In this study, we assessed mitochondrial...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zemanova MA,Knop E,Heckel G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the pattern of connectivity among populations is crucial for the development of realistic and spatially explicit population models in marine systems. Here we analysed variation at eight microsatellite loci to assess the genetic structure and to infer patterns of larval dispersal for a brooding coral, Ser...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Underwood JN,Smith LD,Van Oppen MJ,Gilmour JP

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:The majority of achlorophyllous mycoheterotrophic plant species associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Previous studies have shown that some species are highly specialized towards narrow lineages of AMF and have suggested that only particular lineages of these fungi are targeted by mycoheterotrophic plants...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Merckx VS,Janssens SB,Hynson NA,Specht CD,Bruns TD,Smets EF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogeographic structure of the eastern pine processionary moth Thaumetopoea wilkinsoni was explored in this study by means of nested clade phylogeographic analyses of COI and COII sequences of mitochondrial DNA and Bayesian estimates of divergence times. Intraspecific relationships were inferred and hypotheses teste...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Simonato M,Mendel Z,Kerdelhué C,Rousselet J,Magnoux E,Salvato P,Roques A,Battisti A,Zane L

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In long-lived clonal plants, the overall size of a clone is often used to estimate clone age. The size of a clone, however, might be largely determined by physical or biotic interactions, obscuring the relationship between clone size and age. Here, we use the accumulation of mutations at 14 microsatellite loci to esti...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ally D,Ritland K,Otto SP

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00