The impact of Pleistocene glaciation across the range of a widespread European coastal species.

abstract：:Gammarus minus is an important component of surface spring and cave ecosystems throughout Appalachia, and is a useful indicator of the hydrology and gene flow in freshwater communities. Gammarus minus populations occupying large cave passages (> 2 km) are usually troglomorphic, having reduced eyes, fewer ommatidia, la...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Carlini DB,Manning J,Sullivan PG,Fong DW

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monarch butterflies are known for their spectacular annual migration in eastern North America, with millions of monarchs flying up to 4,500 km to overwintering sites in central Mexico. Monarchs also live west of the Rocky Mountains, where they travel shorter distances to overwinter along the Pacific Coast. It is often...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Talla V,Pierce AA,Adams KL,de Man TJB,Nallu S,Villablanca FX,Kronforst MR,de Roode JC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding ecological divergence of morphologically similar but genetically distinct species - previously considered as a single morphospecies - is of key importance in evolutionary ecology and conservation biology. Despite their morphological similarity, cryptic species may have evolved distinct adaptations. If su...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Leys M,Keller I,Robinson CT,Räsänen K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation is of key importance for a species' evolutionary potential, and its estimation is a major component of conservation studies. New DNA sequencing technologies have enabled the analysis of large portions of the genome in nonmodel species, promising highly accurate estimates of such population genetic pa...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lozier JD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial and environmental heterogeneity are major factors in structuring species distributions in alpine landscapes. These landscapes have also been affected by glacial advances and retreats, causing alpine taxa to undergo range shifts and demographic changes. These nonequilibrium population dynamics have the potentia...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schoville SD,Lam AW,Roderick GK

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The California Floristic Province harbours more endemic plant and animal taxa and more identifiable subspecies than any other area of comparable size in North America. We present evidence that physical historical processes have resulted in congruent patterns of genetic diversity over the past 2-10 million years. Using...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Calsbeek R,Thompson JN,Richardson JE

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges of comparative genomics is to identify specific genetic changes associated with the evolution of a novel adaptation or trait. We need to be able to disassociate the genes involved with a particular character from all the other genetic changes that take place as lineages diverge. Here we show that...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Filatov V,Dowdle J,Smirnoff N,Ford-Lloyd B,Newbury HJ,Macnair MR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most emerging pathogens can infect multiple species, underlining the importance of understanding the ecological and evolutionary factors that allow some hosts to harbour greater infection prevalence and share pathogens with other species. However, our understanding of pathogen jumps is based primarily around viruses, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Becker DJ,Speer KA,Brown AM,Fenton MB,Washburne AD,Altizer S,Streicker DG,Plowright RK,Chizhikov VE,Simmons NB,Volokhov DV

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogeographical investigations of arctic organisms provide spatial and temporal frameworks for interpreting the role of climate change on biotic diversity in high-latitude ecosystems. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted on 473 base pairs of the mitochondrial control region in 192 arctic hares (Lepus arcticus, Lepus...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Waltari E,Cook JA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary mechanisms generating the tremendous biodiversity of islands have long fascinated evolutionary biologists. Genetic drift and divergent selection are predicted to be strong on islands and both could drive population divergence and speciation. Alternatively, strong genetic drift may preclude adaptation....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Funk WC,Lovich RE,Hohenlohe PA,Hofman CA,Morrison SA,Sillett TS,Ghalambor CK,Maldonado JE,Rick TC,Day MD,Polato NR,Fitzpatrick SW,Coonan TJ,Crooks KR,Dillon A,Garcelon DK,King JL,Boser CL,Gould N,Andelt WF

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:Understanding the contribution of different molecular processes to evolution and development is crucial for identifying the mechanisms of adaptation. Here, we used RNA-seq data to test the importance of alternative splicing and differential gene expression in a case of parallel adaptive evolution, the replicated postg...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jacobs A,Elmer KR

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Both climatic and geographical factors play an important role for the biogeographical distribution of species. The Carpathian mountain ridge has been suggested as a natural geographical divide between the two honeybee subspecies Apis mellifera carnica and A. m. macedonica. We sampled one worker from one colony each at...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Coroian CO,Muñoz I,Schlüns EA,Paniti-Teleky OR,Erler S,Furdui EM,Mărghitaş LA,Dezmirean DS,Schlüns H,de la Rúa P,Moritz RF

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial genetic structure within plant populations is influenced by variation in demographic processes through space and time, including a population's successional status. To determine how demographic structure and fine-scale genetic structure (FSGS) change with stages in a population's successional history, we studi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chung MY,Nason JD,Chung MG

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the complex evolutionary armory that mosquitoes deploy against insecticides is crucial to maintain the effectiveness of insecticide-based interventions. Here, we deciphered the role of a 6.5-kb structural variation (SV) in driving cytochrome P450-mediated pyrethroid resistance in the malaria vector, Anophe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mugenzi LMJ,Menze BD,Tchouakui M,Wondji MJ,Irving H,Tchoupo M,Hearn J,Weedall GD,Riveron JM,Cho-Ngwa F,Wondji CS

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that control the assembly and composition of endophyte communities across plant hosts remains poorly understood. This is especially true for endophyte communities inhabiting inner tree bark, one of the least studied components of the plant microbiome. Here, we test the hypothesis that bark of different tre...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pellitier PT,Zak DR,Salley SO

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several hypotheses are available to predict change in genetic diversity when approaching peripheral populations. We used the eastern spadefoot toad in Israel as a model system to examine these hypotheses using population genetics analyses and network theory. Our results contradicted most of the predictions from the 'a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Munwes I,Geffen E,Roll U,Friedmann A,Daya A,Tikochinski Y,Gafny S

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：: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：:Species occupying the same geographic range can exhibit remarkably different population structures across the landscape, ranging from highly diversified to panmictic. Given limitations on collecting population-level data for large numbers of species, ecologists seek to identify proximate organismal traits-such as disp...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Phillipsen IC,Kirk EH,Bogan MT,Mims MC,Olden JD,Lytle DA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding dispersal patterns, population structure and connectivity among populations is helpful in the management and conservation of threatened species. Molecular markers are useful tools as indirect estimators of these characteristics. In this study, we assess the population genetic structure of the orange cora...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Casado-Amezúa P,Goffredo S,Templado J,Machordom A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The speciation process that underlies recent, rapid radiations of plants is controversial, and suggested mechanisms range from pollinator or ecological niche differentiation to allopatry and nonadaptive divergence. Phylogenetic approaches to locating the most appropriate speciation models have been constrained by the ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Linder HP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation in brood-parasitic indigobirds (genus Vidua) is a consequence of behavioural imprinting in both males and females. Mimicry of host song by males and host fidelity in female egg laying result in reproductive isolation of indigobirds associated with a given host species. Colonization of new hosts and subseque...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sefc KM,Payne RB,Sorenson MD

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population structure of variation in a nuclear actin intron and the control region of mitochondrial DNA is described for humpback whales from eight regions in the North Pacific Ocean: central California, Baja Peninsula, nearshore Mexico (Bahia Banderas), offshore Mexico (Socorro Island), southeastern Alaska, centr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Baker CS,Medrano-Gonzalez L,Calambokidis J,Perry A,Pichler F,Rosenbaum H,Straley JM,Urban-Ramirez J,Yamaguchi M,von Ziegesar O

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In High Arctic ecosystems, plant growth and reproduction are limited by low soil moisture and nutrient availability, low soil and air temperatures, and a short growing season. Mycorrhizal associations facilitate plant nutrient acquisition and water uptake and may therefore be particularly ecologically important in nut...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Botnen S,Vik U,Carlsen T,Eidesen PB,Davey ML,Kauserud H

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the process of ecological speciation, reproductive isolation results from divergent natural selection and leads to a positive correlation between genetic divergence and adaptive phenotypic divergence, that is, isolation by adaptation (IBA). In natural populations, phenotypic differentiation is often autocorrela...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Seeholzer GF,Brumfield RT

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogeography of Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) was reconstructed from the coat protein gene sequences of a selection of 173 isolates from the 14 countries of mainland Africa where the disease occurred and from the full sequences of 16 representative isolates. Genetic variation was linked to geographical distributio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Traore O,Sorho F,Pinel A,Abubakar Z,Banwo O,Maley J,Hebrard E,Winter S,Sere Y,Konate G,Fargette D

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Sexual selection may facilitate genetic isolation among populations and result in increased rates of diversification. As a mechanism driving diversification, sexual selection has been invoked and upheld in numerous empirical studies across disparate taxa, including birds, plants and spiders. In this study, we investig...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chakrabarty P,Davis MP,Smith WL,Baldwin ZH,Sparks JS

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect guts are often colonized by multispecies microbial communities that play integral roles in nutrition, digestion and defence. Community composition can differ across host species with increasing dietary and genetic divergence, yet gut microbiota can also vary between conspecific hosts and across an individual's ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hu Y,Łukasik P,Moreau CS,Russell JA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00