The change in genetic diversity down the core-edge gradient in the eastern spadefoot toad (Pelobates syriacus).

abstract：:Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) migrate between nesting beaches and feeding habitats that are often associated with tropical reefs, but it is uncertain which nesting colonies supply which feeding habitats. To address this gap in hawksbill biology, we compile previously published and new mitochondrial DNA (m...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bowen BW,Grant WS,Hillis-Starr Z,Shaver DJ,Bjorndal KA,Bolten AB,Bass AL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the phylogeographic framework, we assessed the DNA sequence variation at the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene across the distribution range of the barbel Barbus barbus, a widely distributed European cyprinid. Reciprocal monophyly of non-Mediterranean European and Balkan/Anatolian populations is taken as evidence ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kotlík P,Berrebi P

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:Urban fragmentation can reduce gene flow that isolates populations, reduces genetic diversity and increases population differentiation, all of which have negative conservation implications. Alternatively, gene flow may actually be increased among urban areas consistent with an urban facilitation model. In fact, urban ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Miles LS,Johnson JC,Dyer RJ,Verrelli BC

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion–contraction (EC) model predicts demographic and range contraction of temperate species during Pleistocene glaciations as a consequence of climate-related habitat changes, and provides a paradigm for explaining the high intraspecific diversity found in refugia in terms of long-term demographic stability. ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Salvi D,Schembri PJ,Sciberras A,Harris DJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 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 molecular mechanisms underlying complex social behaviours such as dominance are largely unknown. Studying the cooperatively breeding African cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher, we show that dominant females were similar to dominant males in dominance behaviour, high testosterone levels and brain arginine vasotocin exp...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Aubin-Horth N,Desjardins JK,Martei YM,Balshine S,Hofmann HA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to contribute to the debate about southern glacial refugia used by temperate species and more northern refugia used by boreal or cold-temperate species, we examined the phylogeography of a widespread snake species (Vipera berus) inhabiting Europe up to the Arctic Circle. The analysis of the mitochondrial DNA ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ursenbacher S,Carlsson M,Helfer V,Tegelström H,Fumagalli L

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Despite its inherent costs, sexual reproduction is ubiquitous in nature, and the mechanisms to protect it from a competitive displacement by asexuality remain unclear. Popular mutation-based explanations, like the Muller's ratchet and the Kondrashov's hatchet, assume that purifying selection may not halt the accumulat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kočí J,Röslein J,Pačes J,Kotusz J,Halačka K,Koščo J,Fedorčák J,Iakovenko N,Janko K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract of animals play vital roles in food digestion, homeostasis and immune response regulation. Globally, there are 33,700 fish species, representing almost half of all vertebrate diversity and a wide range of physiologies, ecologies and life histories. To investigate gut microb...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Huang Q,Sham RC,Deng Y,Mao Y,Wang C,Zhang T,Leung KMY

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation due to both geological barriers and range contractions during the Pleistocene glacial maxima has been an important cause of diversification of arid-adapted species in the North American deserts. Tree lizards, Urosaurus ornatus, are distributed across much of the southwestern arid regions and can tolerate a w...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Haenel GJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modes and mechanisms of speciation are best studied in young species pairs. In older taxa, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish what happened during speciation from what happened after speciation. Lake Victoria cichlids in the genus Pundamilia encompass a complex of young species and polymorphic populations. On...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Meier JI,Sousa VC,Marques DA,Selz OM,Wagner CE,Excoffier L,Seehausen O

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific mutualism can evolve when specific lineages of different species tend to be associated with each other from one generation to the next. Different maternally transmitted endosymbionts occurring within the same cytoplasmic lineage fulfil this requirement. Drosophila neotestacea is infected with maternally ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jaenike J,Stahlhut JK,Boelio LM,Unckless RL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small population sizes can, over time, put species at risk due to the loss of genetic variation and the deleterious effects of inbreeding. Losing diversity in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) could be particularly harmful, given its key role in the immune system. Here, we assess MHC class I (MHC-I) diversity...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Stervander M,Dierickx EG,Thorley J,Brooke ML,Westerdahl H

更新日期：2020-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between parasites and their hosts are intimate, dynamic and complex; the evolution of one is inevitably linked to the other. Despite multiple origins of parasitism in the Cnidaria, only parasites belonging to the Myxozoa are characterized by a complex life cycle, alternating between fish and inverteb...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Holzer AS,Bartošová-Sojková P,Born-Torrijos A,Lövy A,Hartigan A,Fiala I

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the primary challenges of evolutionary research is to identify ecological factors that favour reproductive isolation. Therefore, studying partially isolated taxa has the potential to provide novel insight into the mechanisms of evolutionary divergence. Our study utilizes an adaptive colour polymorphism in the a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Whitney JL,Bowen BW,Karl SA

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Morick et al. (2011) present an interesting study of acquisition and transmission of Bartonella by Xenopsylla ramesis fleas (Fig. 1) which infest naturally wild desert rodents from the Negev desert. A major issue with vector-borne diseases and vector-borne infection is to know wheth...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chomel BB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragmentation and loss of natural habitats are recognized as major threats to contemporary flora and fauna. Detecting past or current reductions in population size is therefore a major aim in conservation genetics. Statistical methods developed to this purpose have tended to ignore the effects of spatial population st...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Leblois R,Estoup A,Streiff R

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal changes at 16 allozyme loci in the Diplodus sargus population of Banyuls-sur-Mer (Mediterranean Sea, France) were monitored. Temporal genetic variation within a single population was examined over two temporal scales: (i) among three year-classes sampled at the same age, and (ii) within a single year-class sa...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Planes S,Lenfant P

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection on coevolving sperm- and egg-recognition molecules is a potent engine of population divergence leading to reproductive isolation and speciation. The study of receptor-ligand pairs can reveal co-evolution of male- and female-expressed genes or differences between their evolution in response to selective facto...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hart MW

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether alpine plant species survived Pleistocene glaciations in situ on high alpine nunatak mountains is still under debate. To test this hypothesis, Senecio halleri, a high alpine and endemic species with a narrow distribution range in the European Alps, was chosen as a model organism. Polymerase chain reaction-rest...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bettin O,Cornejo C,Edwards PJ,Holderegger R

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Landscape genetics offers a powerful approach to understanding species' dispersal patterns. However, a central obstacle is to account for ecological processes operating at multiple spatial scales, while keeping research outcomes applicable to conservation management. We address this challenge by applying a novel multi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dudaniec RY,Rhodes JR,Worthington Wilmer J,Lyons M,Lee KE,McAlpine CA,Carrick FN

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic associations with bacteria have facilitated important evolutionary transitions in insects and resulted in long-term obligate interactions. Recent evidence suggests that these associations are not always evolutionarily stable and that symbiont replacement, and/or supplementation of an obligate symbiosis by an...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Meseguer AS,Manzano-Marín A,Coeur d'Acier A,Clamens AL,Godefroid M,Jousselin E

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crop-wild hybridization has been documented in many cultivated species, but the ecological and genetic factors that influence the likelihood or rate that cultivar alleles will introgress into wild populations are poorly understood. Seed predation is one factor that could mitigate the spread of otherwise advantageous c...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dechaine JM,Burger JC,Burke JM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Monotropoideae (Ericaceae) are non-photosynthetic angiosperms that obtain fixed carbon from basidiomycete ectomycorrhizal fungi. In previous work, we showed that each plant species is associated with a single genus or a set of closely related genera of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Here we show that the level of specific...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bidartondo MI,Bruns TD

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the original goals of phylogeography was to use genetic data to identify historical events that might contribute to breaks among communities. In this study, we examine the phylogeography of a common livebearing fish (Poecilia gillii) from Costa Rica. Our goal was to determine if phylogeographical breaks in this...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lee JB,Johnson JB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population concept is central in evolutionary and conservation biology, but identifying the boundaries of natural populations is often challenging. Here, we present a new approach for assessing spatial genetic structure without the a priori assumptions on the locations of populations made by adopting an individual...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Manel S,Berthoud F,Bellemain E,Gaudeul M,Luikart G,Swenson JE,Waits LP,Taberlet P,Intrabiodiv Consortium.

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00