Evidence of inbreeding depression but not inbreeding avoidance in a natural house sparrow population.

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 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：:Metabarcoding has been used in a range of ecological applications such as taxonomic assignment, dietary analysis and the analysis of environmental DNA. However, after a decade of use in these applications there is little consensus on the extent to which proportions of reads generated corresponds to the original propor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lamb PD,Hunter E,Pinnegar JK,Creer S,Davies RG,Taylor MI

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Philopatry and dispersal result in selection of habitat locations that may differ in resources and social environment and thus should influence fitness components like survival and reproduction. We examined short-distance movements of young and adult females from natal or previous nesting sites within a colony of Colu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Arnaud CM,Dobson FS,Murie JO

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major challenges in evolutionary biology is to understand the mechanisms underlying morphological dimorphism and plasticity, including the genomic basis of traits and links to ecology. At the yellow eel stage of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), two morphotypes are found: broad- and narrow-heads. This d...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： De Meyer J,Maes GE,Dirks RP,Adriaens D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing reduced-representation libraries of restriction site-associated DNA (RADseq) to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is quickly becoming a standard methodology for molecular ecologists. Because of the scale of RADseq data sets, putative loci cannot be assessed individually, making the process of ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： O'Leary SJ,Puritz JB,Willis SC,Hollenbeck CM,Portnoy DS

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The moss Ceratodon purpureus has long been used as a model system in plant development and physiology. However, the molecular population genetics of the species remains virtually unexplored. In this study, we used population genetic analyses of DNA sequence data from three unlinked loci (atpB-rbcL spacer, adk, and phy...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McDaniel SF,Shaw AJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：: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：:Social insect colonies possess a range of defences which protect them against highly virulent parasites and colony collapse. The host-parasite interaction between honey bees (Apis mellifera) and the mite Varroa destructor is unusual, as honey bee colonies are relatively poorly defended against this parasite. The inter...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Conlon BH,Aurori A,Giurgiu AI,Kefuss J,Dezmirean DS,Moritz RFA,Routtu J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization is known to be involved in a number of evolutionary processes, including species formation, and the generation of novel defence characteristics in plants. The genus Senecio of the Asteraceae family is highly speciose and has historically demonstrated significant levels of interspecific hybridization. The...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kirk H,Macel M,Klinkhamer PG,Vrieling K

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Spatial discordance between primary and effective dispersal in plant populations indicates that postdispersal processes erase the seed rain signal in recruitment patterns. Five different models were used to test the spatial concordance of the primary and effective dispersal patterns in a European beech (Fagus sylvatic...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Millerón M,López de Heredia U,Lorenzo Z,Alonso J,Dounavi A,Gil L,Nanos N

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial control region (250 bp) and the cytochrome b region (870 bp) was examined in collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus) from 19 localities in northern Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. The division of D. groenlandicus in two phylogeographical groups with limit...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ehrich D,Fedorov VB,Stenseth NC,Krebs CJ,Kenney A

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：: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：:The Southern Ocean contains some of the most isolated islands on Earth, and fundamental questions remain regarding their colonization and the connectivity of their coastal biotas. Here, we conduct a genetic investigation into the Cellana strigilis (limpet) complex that was originally classified based on morphological ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Reisser CM,Wood AR,Bell JJ,Gardner JP

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population of Stratiomys japonica, a species belonging to the family Stratiomyidae (Diptera), common name 'soldier flies', occurs in a hot volcanic spring, which is apparently among the most inhospitable environments for animals because of chemical and thermal conditions. Larvae of this species, which naturally ofte...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Garbuz DG,Zatsepina OG,Przhiboro AA,Yushenova I,Guzhova IV,Evgen'ev MB

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are about to become one of the most popular genetic markers for genetic model organisms. To test the usefulness of SNPs for estimating genetic diversity, we surveyed three genomic regions in two Drosophila melanogaster populations, one from Africa and one European, collected in A...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schlötterer C,Harr B

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiologists often evaluate microbial community dynamics by formulating functional hypotheses based on ecological processes. Indeed, many of the methods and terms currently used to describe animal microbiomes derive from ecology and evolutionary biology. As our understanding of the composition and functional dynami...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McKenney EA,Koelle K,Dunn RR,Yoder AD

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Archipelago-endemic bird radiations are familiar to evolutionary biologists as key illustrations of evolutionary patterns. However, such radiations are in fact rare events. White-eyes (Zosteropidae) are birds with an exceptionally high colonization and speciation potential; they have colonized more islands globally th...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Melo M,Warren BH,Jones PJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity in experimental, domesticated and wild populations of the related yeasts, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus, has been well described at the global scale. We investigated the population genomics of a local population on a small spatial scale to address two main questions. First, is ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Xia W,Nielly-Thibault L,Charron G,Landry CR,Kasimer D,Anderson JB,Kohn LM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Edaphic specialization is one of the main drivers of plant diversification and has multifaceted effects on population dynamics. Carex angustisquama is a sedge plant growing only on heavily acidified soil in solfatara fields, where only extremophytes can survive. Because of the lack of closely related species in simila...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nagasawa K,Setoguchi H,Maki M,Goto H,Fukushima K,Isagi Y,Suyama Y,Matsuo A,Tsunamoto Y,Sawa K,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying the evolutionary history of trait divergence, in particular those related to dispersal capacity, is of major interest for the process of local adaptation and metapopulation dynamics. Here, we reconstruct the evolution of different alleles at the nuclear-encoded mitochondrial NADP(+)-dependent isocitrate dehyd...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Van Belleghem SM,Roelofs D,Hendrickx F

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microbial ecology of the gut is now a major focus of interest, little is known about the molecular determinants of microbial adaptation in the gut. Experimental evolution coupled with whole-genome sequencing can provide insights of the adaptive process. In vitro experiments have revealed some conserved patter...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lescat M,Launay A,Ghalayini M,Magnan M,Glodt J,Pintard C,Dion S,Denamur E,Tenaillon O

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the world's terrestrial landscapes are being altered by humans in the form of agriculture, urbanization and pastoral systems, with major implications for biodiversity. Bumble bees are one of the most effective pollinators in both natural and cultivated landscapes, but are often the first to be extirpated in hu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jha S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I derive the equilibrium values of sex-specific FST parameters, in an island model for a dioecious species with sex-biased dispersal and binomial distribution of family size before dispersal (as assumed in a Wright-Fisher population). I show that FST may take different values among males and among females whenever dis...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vitalis R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular phylogeography of Microtus longicaudus was investigated with DNA sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. We used phylogenetic and pairwise distance methods to reconstruct the history of the species with particular emphasis on the Pacific Northwest. Genetic variation across the species was consi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Conroy CJ,Cook JA

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a comparative phylogeographical approach to investigate the origins of the disjunct wet forest biota of the Golfo Dulce region along the Pacific slope of Costa Rica. This region is isolated by Pacific dry forests north and south and isolated from Caribbean wet forests by mountains. We studied three sympatric l...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Crawford AJ,Bermingham E,Carolina PS

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00