Unearthing the impact of human disturbance on a notorious weed.

abstract：:Determining the genetic structure of tropical bird populations is important for assessing potential genetic effects of future habitat fragmentation and for testing hypotheses about evolutionary mechanisms promoting diversification. Here we used 10 microsatellite DNA loci to describe levels of genetic differentiation f...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Francisco MR,Gibbs HL,Galetti M,Lunardi VO,Galetti PM Jr

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex identification is a problem in research and conservation. It can often be solved using a DNA test but this is only an option if a sex-specific marker is available. Such markers can be identified using the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technique. This is usually a taxonomic method, as it produces a ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Griffiths R,Orr K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region (1043 base pairs) and 162-bp of flanking transfer RNA genes were sequenced in 316 European grayling, Thymallus thymallus, from 44 populations throughout the Western European range of the species. A total of 58 haplotypes were revealed with pairwise divergence rangi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Weiss S,Persat H,Eppe R,Schlötterer C,Uiblein F

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inference of population divergence times and branching patterns is of fundamental importance in many population genetic analyses. Many methods have been developed for estimating population divergence times, and recently, there has been particular attention towards genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wang Y,Nielsen R

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:The concept of kinship permeates many domains of fundamental and applied biology ranging from social evolution to conservation science to quantitative and human genetics. Until recently, pedigrees were the gold standard to infer kinship, but the advent of next-generation sequencing and the availability of dense geneti...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Goudet J,Kay T,Weir BS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants that produce dust seeds can recruit fungi to meet their earliest requirements for carbon and other nutrients. This germination strategy, termed initial mycoheterotrophy, has been well investigated among the orchid family, but there are numerous other plant lineages that have independently evolved mycoheterotrop...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hynson NA,Weiß M,Preiss K,Gebauer G,Treseder KK

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater planarians Dugesia japonica from three localities were examined for cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequence, karyotype and the presence of genital organ. The planarians from Mt Fujiwara in Japan were composed of two different groups; one revealed inter- and intraindividual COI gene heterogeneity,...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bessho Y,Tamura S,Hori H,Tanaka H,Ohama T,Osawa S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-tailed bats Mystacina tuberculata were widespread throughout the forest that dominated prehuman New Zealand, but extensive deforestation has restricted them to scattered populations in forest fragments. In a previous study, the species' intraspecific phylogeny was investigated using multiple mitochondrial gene s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lloyd BD

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduced species can threaten native taxa in multiple ways, including competition and hybridization, which can reduce fitness, alter ecological niches or swamp native genomes. Encroachment and hybridization by introduced species also provide opportunities to study the dynamics of invasiveness and hybridization durin...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sacks BN,Moore M,Statham MJ,Wittmer HU

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many vertebrates form monogamous pairs to mate and care for their offspring. However, genetic tools have increasingly shown that offspring often arise from matings outside of the monogamous pair bond. Social monogamy is relatively common in coral reef fishes, but there have been few studies that have confirmed monogam...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rueger T,Harrison HB,Gardiner NM,Berumen ML,Jones GP

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：: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：:We studied population polymorphism at a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II beta gene in the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). We found that: (i) a single population of P. maniculatus has significantly higher levels of DNA and protein sequence diversity than worldwide samples from homologous genes in ot...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Richman AD,Herrera LG,Nash D

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation by adaptation increases divergence at neutral loci when natural selection against immigrants reduces the rate of gene flow between different habitats. This can occur early in the process of adaptive divergence and is a key feature of ecological speciation. Despite the ability of isolation by distance (IBD) a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Andrew RL,Ostevik KL,Ebert DP,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial patterns of intraspecific variation are shaped by geographical distance among populations, historical changes in gene flow and interactions with local environments. Although these factors are not mutually exclusive and operate on both genomic and phenotypic variation, it is unclear how they affect these two ax...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moreira LR,Hernandez-Baños BE,Smith BT

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both historical and contemporary processes influence the genetic structure of species, but the relative roles of such processes are still difficult to access. Population genetic studies of species with recent evolutionary histories such as the New Zealand endemic scallop Pecten novaezelandiae (<1 Ma) permit testing of...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Silva CN,Gardner JP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore how biogeography, parasite life history and host vagility influences evolutionary codivergences, we followed a comparative phylogeography approach using a host-specific nonpermanent mite, Laelaps giganteus, that occurs on four rodent species within the genus Rhabdomys. A mtDNA COI haplotype network derived ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Engelbrecht A,Matthee S,du Toit N,Matthee CA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract The genetic impact of the cultural practice of spat collection and translocation between genetically distinct stocks of black-lipped pearl oyster, Pinctada margaritifera cumingii, was studied by comparing samples collected in the 1980s and 2000s from seven atolls in French Polynesia. An amova revealed homogen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Arnaud-Haond S,Vonau V,Bonhomme F,Boudry P,Blanc F,Prou J,Seaman T,Goyard E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The koala, Phascolarctos cinereus, is a geographically widespread species endemic to Australia, with three currently recognized subspecies: P.c. adustus, P.c. cinereus, and P.c. victor. Intraspecific variation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region was examined in over 200 animals from 16 representative popul...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Houlden BA,Costello BH,Sharkey D,Fowler EV,Melzer A,Ellis W,Carrick F,Baverstock PR,Elphinstone MS

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:We studied the phylogenetic relationships among the three stone pine species, Pinus cembra, P. sibirica, and P. pumila, using chloroplast microsatellites and mitochondrial nad1 intron 2 sequences. The three chloroplast microsatellite loci combined into a total of 18 haplotypes. Fourteen haplotypes were detected in 15 ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gugerli F,Senn J,Anzidei M,Madaghiele A,Büchler U,Sperisen C,Vendramin GG

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel evolution and the extent to which it involves gene reuse have attracted much interest. Whereas it has theoretically been predicted under which circumstances gene reuse is expected, empirical studies that directly compare systems showing high and low parallelism are rare. Three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Liu S,Ferchaud AL,Grønkjaer P,Nygaard R,Hansen MM

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chilo suppressalis (Walker) displays significant geographical differences in ecological preference that may be congruent with patterns of molecular variation. To test this, we collected and analysed 381 individuals of this species from cultivated rice at 18 localities in China during the rice-growing season of 2005-20...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Meng XF,Shi M,Chen XX

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in social behaviour is common, yet little is known about the genetic architectures underpinning its evolution. A rare exception is in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta: Alternative variants of a supergene region determine whether a colony will have exactly one or up to dozens of queens. The two variants of thi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pracana R,Priyam A,Levantis I,Nichols RA,Wurm Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects form the most species-rich lineage of Eukaryotes and each is a potential host for organisms from multiple phyla, including fungi, protozoa, mites, bacteria and nematodes. In particular, beetles are known to be associated with distinct bacterial communities and entomophilic nematodes. While entomopathogenic nem...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Koneru SL,Salinas H,Flores GE,Hong RL

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life history adaptations and spatial configuration of metapopulation networks allow certain species to persist in extreme fluctuating environments, yet long-term stability within these systems relies on the maintenance of linkage habitat. Degradation of such linkages in urban riverscapes can disrupt this dynamic in aq...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Richmond JQ,Backlin AR,Galst-Cavalcante C,O'Brien JW,Fisher RN

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As populations diverge many processes can shape genomic patterns of differentiation. Regions of high differentiation can arise due to divergent selection acting on selected loci, genetic hitchhiking of nearby loci, or through repeated selection against deleterious alleles (linked background selection); this divergence...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lehnert SJ,Kess T,Bentzen P,Clément M,Bradbury IR

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：: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