Evidence for selective sweeps by Wolbachia infections: phylogeny of Altica leaf beetles and their reproductive parasites.

abstract：:DNA barcoding facilitates many evolutionary and ecological studies, including the examination of the dietary diversity of herbivores. In this study, we present a survey of ecological associations between herbivorous beetles and host plants from seriously threatened European steppic grasslands. We determined host plant...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kajtoch Ł,Kubisz D,Heise W,Mazur MA,Babik W

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diversification and speciation of terrestrial organisms are anticipated in oceanic islands such as Macaronesia, a group of Atlantic islands that have remained unconnected to continental landmasses. Hitherto, the diversification of marine organisms in oceanic islands, especially those with low vagility, has received li...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vieira PE,Desiderato A,Holdich DM,Soares P,Creer S,Carvalho GR,Costa FO,Queiroga H

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive ecological differentiation among sympatric populations is promoted by environmental heterogeneity, strong local selection and restricted gene flow. High gene flow, on the other hand, is expected to homogenize genetic variation among populations and therefore prevent local adaptation. Understanding how local a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Richter-Boix A,Quintela M,Kierczak M,Franch M,Laurila A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The black surfperch Embiotoca jacksoni and the striped surfperch E. lateralis (Embiotocidae, Perciformes) are livebearing temperate reef fishes that live sympatrically over a large portion of their distribution range, where they exhibit strong ecological competition. In order to assess whether mating strategies reflec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Reisser CM,Beldade R,Bernardi G

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:The use of sequence polymorphism from individual mitochondrial genes to infer past demography has recently proved controversial because of the recurrence of selective sweeps acting over genes and the need for unlinked multilocus data sets. However, comparative analyses using several species for one gene and/or multipl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Plouviez S,Shank TM,Faure B,Daguin-Thiebaut C,Viard F,Lallier FH,Jollivet D

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Neotropical region represents one of the greatest biodiversity hot spots on earth. Despite its unparalleled biodiversity, regional comparative phylogeographic studies are still scarce, with most focusing on model clades (e.g. birds) and typically examining a handful of loci. Here, we apply a genome-wide comparativ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rincon-Sandoval M,Betancur-R R,Maldonado-Ocampo JA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species of horned lizards are sympatric along the periphery of the Salton Trough. Phrynosoma mcallii, endemic to the trough, is of conservation concern because its limited habitat has been fragmented by human activities. A more common and widespread species, Phrynosoma platyrhinos, occurs around the periphery of t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mulcahy DG,Spaulding AW,Mendelson JR 3rd,Brodie ED Jr

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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：:Experimental evolution (EE) combined with whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has become a compelling approach to study the fundamental mechanisms and processes that drive evolution. Most EE-WGS studies published to date have used microbes, owing to their ease of propagation and manipulation in the laboratory and relatively...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dettman JR,Rodrigue N,Melnyk AH,Wong A,Bailey SF,Kassen R

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most striking and consistent results in speciation genomics is the heterogeneous divergence observed across the genomes of closely related species. This pattern was initially attributed to different levels of gene exchange-with divergence preserved at loci generating a barrier to gene flow but homogenized a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Field DL,Fraïsse C

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea) was once a common Australian Hylid. Today, many populations are small and fragmented as a result of dramatic declines in distribution and abundance. We undertook a large-scale assessment of genetic structure and diversity in L. aurea using four species-specific microsatel...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Burns EL,Eldridge MD,Houlden BA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many genes increase coding capacity by alternate exon usage. The gene encoding the insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) α6 subunit, target of the bio-insecticide spinosad, is one example of this and expands protein diversity via alternative splicing of mutually exclusive exons. Here, we show that spinosad r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Berger M,Puinean AM,Randall E,Zimmer CT,Silva WM,Bielza P,Field LM,Hughes D,Mellor I,Hassani-Pak K,Siqueira HA,Williamson MS,Bass C

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilocus isozyme genotypic composition for aspartate aminotransferase (AAT), leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) and glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) was studied for Capsella in the source continent, Europe (9000 plants from 593 populations), and in the colonized continent, North America (2700 plants from 88 populations). Nor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Neuffer B,Hurka H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human activities have increasingly introduced plant species far outside their native ranges under environmental conditions that can strongly differ from those originally met. Therefore, before spreading, and potentially causing ecological and economical damage, non-native species may rapidly evolve. Evidence of geneti...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vandepitte K,de Meyer T,Helsen K,van Acker K,Roldán-Ruiz I,Mergeay J,Honnay O

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phylogeny of mainland eastern Australian scrubwrens (Sericornis citreogularis, S. frontalis, S. keri, S. magnirostris and S. beccarii) was constructed using presence or absence of phylogenetically informative restriction sites in 15 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotypes. MtDNA sequence divergences between species wer...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Joseph L,Moritz C

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial taxa range from being ubiquitous and abundant across space to extremely rare and endemic, depending on their ecophysiology and on different processes acting locally or regionally. However, little is known about how cosmopolitan or rare taxa combine to constitute communities and whether environmental variatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ruiz-González C,Logares R,Sebastián M,Mestre M,Rodríguez-Martínez R,Galí M,Sala MM,Acinas SG,Duarte CM,Gasol JM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy number variants (CNVs) are a major component of genotypic and phenotypic variation in genomes. To date, our knowledge of genotypic variation and evolution has largely been acquired by means of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) analyses. Until recently, the adaptive role of structural variants (SVs) and partic...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dorant Y,Cayuela H,Wellband K,Laporte M,Rougemont Q,Mérot C,Normandeau E,Rochette R,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements are mobile sequences found in nuclear genomes and can potentially serve as molecular markers in various phylogenetic and population genetic investigations. A PCR-based method that utilizes restriction site variation of element copies within a genome is developed. These patterns of site variation,...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Purugganan MD,Wessler SR

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the gene dispersal distance and the magnitude of inbreeding depression from the fine-scale genetic structure in the endangered heterostylous perennial Primula sieboldii. We indirectly estimated the neighbourhood size (Nb) and the standard deviation of gene dispersal distance (sigma(g)) from the detected g...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ishihama F,Ueno S,Tsumura Y,Washitani I

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are notorious for disturbing terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, especially those that are in close proximity to urban areas. This disturbance has involved the accumulation of various types of chemical pollutants, of either agricultural or industrial origins, in both soil and water ecosystems. Pollutants have som...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Corradi N,Charest C

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral reefs belong to the most diverse ecosystems on our planet. The diversity in coloration and lifestyles of coral reef fishes makes them a particularly promising system to study the role of visual communication and adaptation. Here, we investigated the evolution of visual pigment genes (opsins) in damselfish (Pomac...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Stieb SM,Cortesi F,Sueess L,Carleton KL,Salzburger W,Marshall NJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:Black rats are major invasive vertebrate pests with severe ecological, economic and health impacts. Remarkably, their evolutionary history has received little attention, and there is no firm agreement on how many species should be recognized within the black rat complex. This species complex is native to India and Sou...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pagès M,Bazin E,Galan M,Chaval Y,Claude J,Herbreteau V,Michaux J,Piry S,Morand S,Cosson JF

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Aquifers, springs and other groundwater-dependent ecosystems are threatened by urban land use, which causes water quality deterioration through nutrient loading, sewage infiltration, groundwater extraction and, along coasts, seawater intrusion. The presence of certain microbes in groundwater can indicate that an aquif...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Scharping RJ,Garey JR

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological effects of climate change have been shown in most major taxonomic groups; however, the evolutionary consequences are less well-documented. Adaptation to new climatic conditions offers a potential long-term mechanism for species to maintain viability in rapidly changing environments, but mammalian exampl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Waterhouse MD,Erb LP,Beever EA,Russello MA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine plays essential biological roles, but excessive amounts produce cellular oxidative stress. Cysteine metabolism is mainly mediated by the enzymes cysteine dioxygenase and γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase, respectively coded by the genes CDO1 and GCLC. Here we test a new hypothesis posing that the synthesis of the...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rodríguez-Martínez S,Márquez R,Inácio Â,Galván I

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics and consequences of introgression can inform about numerous evolutionary processes. Biologists have therefore long been interested in hybridization. One challenge, however, lies in the identification of nonadmixed genotypes that can serve as a baseline for accurate quantification of admixture. In this iss...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hailer F

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00