Phylogenetic species delimitation in ectomycorrhizal fungi and implications for barcoding: the case of the Tricholoma scalpturatum complex (Basidiomycota).

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity occurs at a variety of timescales, but little is known about the degree to which plastic responses at different timescales are associated with similar underlying molecular processes, which is critical for assessing the effects of plasticity on evolutionary trajectories. To address this issue, we ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Metzger DCH,Schulte PM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We combine kinship estimates with traditional F-statistics to explain contemporary drivers of population genetic differentiation despite high gene flow. We investigate range-wide population genetic structure of the California spiny (or red rock) lobster (Panulirus interruptus) and find slight, but significant global p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Iacchei M,Ben-Horin T,Selkoe KA,Bird CE,García-Rodríguez FJ,Toonen RJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing between primary and secondary intergradation among differentiated populations, and the relative importance of drift and selection, are persistent problems in evolutionary biology. An historical perspective on population interactions can provide insight into the nature of contacts, and thus help resolve ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schneider CJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 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

abstract：:Parallel patterns of adaptive divergence and speciation are cited as powerful evidence for the role of selection driving these processes. However, it is often not clear whether parallel phenotypic divergence is underlain by parallel genetic changes. Here, we asked about the genetic basis of parallel divergence in the ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Westram AM,Galindo J,Alm Rosenblad M,Grahame JW,Panova M,Butlin RK

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Although most vertebrates reproduce sexually, a small number of fishes, amphibians and reptiles are known in which reproduction is asexual, i.e. without meiotic recombination. In fishes, these so-called unisexual lineages usually comprise only females and utilize co-occurring males of a related sexual species to repro...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schmidt DJ,Bond NR,Adams M,Hughes JM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes have evolved ways of interference competition to gain advantage over their ecological competitors. The use of secreted killer toxins by yeast cells through acquiring double-stranded RNA viruses is one such prominent example. Although the killer behaviour has been well studied in laboratory yeast strains, our ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chang SL,Leu JY,Chang TH

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraspecific variation in social organization is common, yet the underlying causes are rarely known. An exception is the fire ant Solenopsis invicta in which the existence of two distinct forms of social colony organization is under the control of the two variants of a pair of social chromosomes, SB and Sb. Colonies ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Buechel SD,Wurm Y,Keller L

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome divergence is greatly influenced by gene flow during early stages of speciation. As populations differentiate, geographic barriers can constrain gene flow and so affect the dynamics of divergence and speciation. Current geography, specifically disjunction and continuity of ranges, is often used to predict the h...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Peñalba JV,Joseph L,Moritz C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theory has examined the way in which vaccination strategies are expected to influence the evolution of parasite virulence. Most of this work has assumed that vaccination is imposed on a homogeneous host population. However, host populations are typically composed of different types of individuals, with each typ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Williams PD,Day T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral reefs in the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) are among the most isolated in the world. This isolation has resulted in relatively low species diversity but comparatively high endemism. The dominant reef-building corals of the TEP are the Pocillopora corals, a ubiquitous Indo-Pacific genus commonly regarded as infe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Combosch DJ,Guzman HM,Schuhmacher H,Vollmer SV

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the ecological significance of the mutualistic relationship between Symbiodiniaceae and reef-building corals, the molecular interactions during establishment of this relationship are not well understood. This is particularly true of the transcriptional changes that occur in the symbiont. In the current study, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mohamed AR,Andrade N,Moya A,Chan CX,Negri AP,Bourne DG,Ying H,Ball EE,Miller DJ

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing issue in marine biology is identifying spatial scales at which populations of sessile adults are connected by planktonic offspring. We examined the genetic continuity of the acorn barnacle Balanus glandula, an abundant member of rocky intertidal communities of the northeastern Pacific Ocean, and compar...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sotka EE,Wares JP,Barth JA,Grosberg RK,Palumbi SR

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population faced with a new selection pressure can only adapt if appropriate genetic variation is available. This genetic variation might come from new mutations or from gene exchange with other populations or species, or it might already segregate in the population as standing genetic variation (which might itself ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Welch JJ,Jiggins CD

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is a worldwide pest and a vector of numerous plant viruses. B. tabaci is composed of dozens of morphologically indistinguishable biotypes and its taxonomic status is still controversial. This phloem-feeder harbours the primary symbiont Portiera aleyrodidarum and pot...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Thierry M,Becker N,Hajri A,Reynaud B,Lett JM,Delatte H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating the genetic basis of phenotypic traits and the selection pressures acting on them are central to our understanding of the evolution and conservation of wild populations. However, obtaining such evolutionary-related parameters is not an easy task as it requires accurate information on both relatedness among ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Garant D,Kruuk LE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Two endemic groundwater arthropod crustacean species, Crangonyx islandicus and Crymostygius thingvallensis, were recently discovered on the mid-Atlantic volcanic island of Iceland. The extent of morphological differences from closest relatives, endemism, along with the geographic isolation of Iceland and its complet...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kornobis E,Pálsson S,Kristjánsson BK,Svavarsson J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature stress that pelagic fishes experience can induce physiological and behavioural changes that leave a signature in gene expression profiles. We used a functional genomics approach to identify genes that were up- or down-regulated following thermal stress in the Pacific bluefin tuna. Following the acclima...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Castilho PC,Buckley BA,Somero G,Block BA

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Despite no obvious barriers to gene flow in the marine realm, environmental variation and ecological specializations can lead to genetic differentiation in highly mobile predators. Here, we investigated the genetic structure of the harbour porpoise over the entire species distribution range in western Palearctic water...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Fontaine MC,Roland K,Calves I,Austerlitz F,Palstra FP,Tolley KA,Ryan S,Ferreira M,Jauniaux T,Llavona A,Öztürk B,Öztürk AA,Ridoux V,Rogan E,Sequeira M,Siebert U,Vikingsson GA,Borrell A,Michaux JR,Aguilar A

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of speciation remains a fundamental topic in evolutionary biology. Numerous models of speciation have been proposed and they are as diverse and colourful as the scientists who conceived them (Coyne & Orr 2004). One of the more controversial theories has been the 'stasipatric speciation' model, proposed by ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kearney M,Hewitt G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Antarctic ecosystems are dominated by micro-organisms, and viruses play particularly important roles in the food webs. Since the first report in 2009 (López-Bueno et al. ), 'omic'-based studies have greatly enlightened our understanding of Antarctic aquatic microbial diversity and ecosystem function (Wilkins et al. ; ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cavicchioli R,Erdmann S

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：: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：:A comparative study between microsatellite and allozyme markers was conducted on natural populations of resident brown trout (Salmo trutta) sampled over a reduced geographical scale and on hatchery strains. The higher level of polymorphism observed at microsatellite loci resulted in higher power of statistical tests f...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Estoup A,Rousset F,Michalakis Y,Cornuet JM,Adriamanga M,Guyomard R

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation supplies the raw material for adaptation, evolution and survival of populations and has therefore been a key focus of conservation biology ever since its foundation (Soulé 1985). In previous decades, the neutral component of genetic diversity (generated by mutation and shaped by drift) has been the s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ficetola GF,Bonin AL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike plants and vertebrates, the ecological preferences, and potential vulnerabilities of soil invertebrates to environmental change, remain poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems globally. We conducted a cross-biome survey including 83 locations across six continents to advance our understanding of the ecologi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bastida F,Eldridge DJ,Abades S,Alfaro FD,Gallardo A,García-Velázquez L,García C,Hart SC,Pérez CA,Santos F,Trivedi P,Williams MA,Delgado-Baquerizo M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00