Strong founder effects and low genetic diversity in introduced populations of Coqui frogs.

abstract：:The codling moth, Cydia pomonella, is renowned for developing resistance to insecticides and causing significant economic damage to pome fruits worldwide. In spite of its economic importance, little is known about the patterns of movement of this pest and the effects of insecticide treatment on the population genetic ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Franck P,Reyes M,Olivares J,Sauphanor B

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Habitat fragmentation is a major force affecting demography and genetic structure of wild populations, especially in agricultural landscapes. The land snail Cepaea nemoralis (L.) was selected to investigate the impact of habitat fragmentation on the spatial genetic structure of an organism with limited dispersal abili...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schweiger O,Frenzel M,Durka W

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the application of the polymerase chain reaction make it possible to score individuals at a large number of loci. The RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) method is one such technique that has attracted widespread interest. The analysis of population structure with RAPD data is hampered by the la...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lynch M,Milligan BG

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaternary climatic fluctuations have left contrasting historical footprints on the neutral genetic diversity patterns of existing populations of different tree species. We should expect the demography, and consequently the neutral genetic structure, of taxa less tolerant to particular climatic extremes to be more sen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Soto A,Robledo-Arnuncio JJ,González-Martínez SC,Smouse PE,Alía R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific hybridization is an important process through which abrupt speciation can occur. In recent years, genetic changes associated with hybrid speciation have been identified through a variety of techniques, including AFLP/SSR mapping, GISH/FISH and cDNA-AFLP differential display. However, progress in using mi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hegarty MJ,Jones JM,Wilson ID,Barker GL,Coghill JA,Sanchez-Baracaldo P,Liu G,Buggs RJ,Abbott RJ,Edwards KJ,Hiscock SJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African cichlid fishes are a prime model for studying speciation mechanisms. Despite the development of extensive genomic resources, it has been difficult to determine which sources of genetic variation are responsible for cichlid phenotypic variation. One of their most variable phenotypes is visual sensitivity, with ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Carleton KL,Conte MA,Malinsky M,Nandamuri SP,Sandkam BA,Meier JI,Mwaiko S,Seehausen O,Kocher TD

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear and heterogeneous habitat makes headwater stream networks an ideal ecosystem in which to test the influence of environmental factors on spatial genetic patterns of obligatory aquatic species. We investigated fine-scale population structure and influence of stream habitat on individual-level genetic differentiat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kanno Y,Vokoun JC,Letcher BH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

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：:Divergent life history strategies occur in steelhead or rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss, and many populations produce both migrant (anadromous fish that move to the ocean after rearing) and resident (do not migrate and remain in fresh water) individuals. Mechanisms leading to each type are only partially understood;...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sutherland BJ,Hanson KC,Jantzen JR,Koop BF,Smith CT

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal marine ecosystems world-wide are threatened by invasions of nonindigenous species. The ubiquity of marine sibling species identifiable only by genetic analysis suggests that many invasions are cryptic and therefore undetected, causing an underestimation of the actual number and impacts of invading species. We ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Geller JB,Walton ED,Grosholz ED,Ruiz GM

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors promoting the establishment and colonization success of introduced populations in new environments constitute an important issue in biological invasions. In this context, the respective role of pre-adaptation and evolutionary changes during the invasion process is a key question that requires particular attent...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Perdereau E,Bagnères AG,Vargo EL,Baudouin G,Xu Y,Labadie P,Dupont S,Dedeine F

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the factors that maintain genetic variation in natural populations is a foundational goal of evolutionary biology. To this end, population geneticists have developed a variety of models that can produce stable polymorphisms. In one of the earliest models, Owen () demonstrated that differences in selectio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Meisel RP

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deadly poisonous Amanita phalloides is common along the west coast of North America. Death cap mushrooms are especially abundant in habitats around the San Francisco Bay, California, but the species grows as far south as Los Angeles County and north to Vancouver Island, Canada. At different times, various authors ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pringle A,Adams RI,Cross HB,Bruns TD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functionally constrained genes are ideal insecticide targets because disruption is often fatal, and resistance mutations are typically costly. Synaptic acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is an essential neurotransmission enzyme targeted by insecticides used increasingly in malaria control. In Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Weetman D,Mitchell SN,Wilding CS,Birks DP,Yawson AE,Essandoh J,Mawejje HD,Djogbenou LS,Steen K,Rippon EJ,Clarkson CS,Field SG,Rigden DJ,Donnelly MJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:High-throughput DNA methods hold great promise for the study of taxonomically intractable mesofauna of the soil. Here, we assess species diversity and community structure in a phylogenetic framework, by sequencing total DNA from bulk specimen samples and assembly of mitochondrial genomes. The combination of mitochondr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Andújar C,Arribas P,Ruzicka F,Crampton-Platt A,Timmermans MJ,Vogler AP

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatedness increases the likelihood of cooperation within colonies of social insects. Polygyny, the coexistence of numerous reproductive females (queens) in a colony, is common in mature colonies of the termite Macrotermes michaelseni. In this species, polygyny results from pleometrosis and from several female alates...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hacker M,Kaib M,Bagine RK,Epplen JT,Brandl R

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Microsatellites are powerful molecular markers, used commonly to estimate intraspecific genetic distances. With the exception of band sharing similarity index, available distance measures were developed specifically for diploid organisms and are unsuited for comparisons of polyploids. Here, we present a simpl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bruvo R,Michiels NK,D'Souza TG,Schulenburg H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While microsatellites have been used to examine genetic structure in local populations of Neotropical trees, genetic studies based on such high-resolution markers have not been carried out for Mesoamerica as a whole. Here we assess the genetic structure of the Mesoamerican mahogany Swietenia macrophylla King (big-leaf...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Novick RR,Dick CW,Lemes MR,Navarro C,Caccone A,Bermingham E

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of continental Europe in the Neogene was due to the regression of the Tethys Ocean and of the Paratethys Sea. The dynamic geology of the area and repetitious transitions between marine and freshwater conditions presented opportunities for the colonization of newly emerging hydrological networks and diver...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mamos T,Wattier R,Burzyński A,Grabowski M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Permafrost represents an important understudied genetic resource. Soil microorganisms play important roles in regulating biogeochemical cycles and maintaining ecosystem function. However, our knowledge of patterns and drivers of permafrost microbial communities is limited over broad geographic scales. Using high-throu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chen YL,Deng Y,Ding JZ,Hu HW,Xu TL,Li F,Yang GB,Yang YH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale anthropogenic changes in the environment are reshaping global biodiversity and the evolutionary trajectory of many species. Evolutionary mechanisms that allow organisms to thrive in this rapidly changing environment are just beginning to be investigated (Hoffmann & Sgrò 2011; Colautti & Barrett 2013). Weed...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hodgins K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diversifying selection on metabolic pathways can reduce intraspecific gene flow and promote population divergence. An opportunity to explore this arises from mitonuclear discordance observed in an Australian bird Eopsaltria australis. Across >1500 km, nuclear differentiation is low and latitudinally structured by isol...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Morales HE,Pavlova A,Joseph L,Sunnucks P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern analytical methods for population genetics and phylogenetics are expected to provide more accurate results when data from multiple genome-wide loci are analysed. We present the results of an initial application of parallel tagged sequencing (PTS) on a next-generation platform to sequence thousands of barcoded P...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： O'Neill EM,Schwartz R,Bullock CT,Williams JS,Shaffer HB,Aguilar-Miguel X,Parra-Olea G,Weisrock DW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts to understand the causes of variation in senescence trajectories would benefit greatly from biomarkers that reflect the progressive declines in somatic integrity (SI) that lead to senescence. While telomere length has attracted considerable interest in this regard, sources of variation in telomere length pote...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wood EM,Young AJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread species that exhibit both high gene flow and the capacity to occupy heterogeneous environments make excellent models for examining local selection processes along environmental gradients. Here we evaluate the influence of temperature and landscape variables on genetic connectivity and signatures of local ad...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Yadav S,Stow AJ,Dudaniec RY

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant mating systems are known to influence population genetic structure because pollen and seed dispersal are often spatially restricted. However, the reciprocal outcomes of population structure on the dynamics of polymorphic mating systems have received little attention. In gynodioecious sea beet (Beta vulgaris ssp....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： DE Cauwer I,Dufay M,Cuguen J,Arnaud JF

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Hybrid zones are important windows into ecological and evolutionary processes. Our understanding of the significance and prevalence of hybridization in nature has expanded with the generation and analysis of genome-spanning data sets. That said, most hybridization research still has restricted temporal and spatial res...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Stewart KA,Taylor SA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00