Genetic rescue: a safe or risky bet?

abstract：:New technologies promise to revolutionize the field of molecular ecology. This technological progress comes with its own set of challenges. Among the most important ones is the analysis and interpretation of the data in a way that tells us about the molecular causes of the phenotype of interest and its consequences. I...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Landry CR,Aubin-Horth N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species of malaria and related haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida) are responsible for diseases in wild and domestic animals. These pathogens are exclusively transmitted by blood-sucking dipteran insects (Diptera). Traditional vector studies, which are based mainly on experimental infection and subsequent dis...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Valkiūnas G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replicated ecological gradients are prime systems to study processes of molecular evolution underlying ecological divergence. Here, we investigated the repeated adaptation of the neotropical fish Poecilia mexicana to habitats containing toxic hydrogen sulphide (H2 S) and compared two population pairs of sulphide-adapt...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pfenninger M,Patel S,Arias-Rodriguez L,Feldmeyer B,Riesch R,Plath M

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Unlike other migratory hummingbirds in North America, the broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) exhibits both long-distance migratory behaviour in the USA and sedentary behaviour in Mexico and Guatemala. We examined the evolution of migration linked to its northward expansion using a multiperspective appr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Malpica A,Ornelas JF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the genetic structure and variation of 21 populations of cattle (Bos taurus) in northern Eurasia and the neighbouring Near Eastern regions of the Balkan, the Caucasus and Ukraine employing 30 microsatellite markers. By analyses of population relationships, as well as by a Bayesian-based clustering appr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Li MH,Tapio I,Vilkki J,Ivanova Z,Kiselyova T,Marzanov N,Cinkulov M,Stojanović S,Ammosov I,Popov R,Kantanen J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Firmly rooted as we are in the genomic era, it can seem incredible that as recently as 1974, Lewontin declared, 'we know virtually nothing about the genetic changes that occur in species formation'. To the contrary, we now know the genetic architecture of phenotypic differences and reproductive isolation between speci...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sweigart A

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:The phylogeographical history of the rare marsh orchid Anacamptis palustris (Orchidaceae) was reconstructed using highly polymorphic chloroplast minisatellite and microsatellite loci. Allelic variation at chloroplast microsatellite loci was due to length variation in poly(A/T) repeats and was informative on a regional...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cozzolino S,Cafasso D,Pellegrino G,Musacchio A,Widmer A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding connectivity of coral populations among and within reefs over ecologically significant timescales is essential for developing evidence-based management strategies, including the design of marineprotected areas. Here, we present the first assessment of contemporary connectivity among populations of two Mo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Torda G,Lundgren P,Willis BL,van Oppen MJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current forestry policy promotes the use of local seed for new plantings, on the assumption that local material may be better adapted to local conditions. However, landscape-scale genetic studies which are necessary to underpin conservation and breeding strategies are often lacking. We investigated molecular diversity...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sutherland BG,Belaj A,Nier S,Cottrell JE,P Vaughan S,Hubert J,Russell K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to characterize further the patterns of selection and adaptive evolution at the methuselah locus in Drosophila species, we extended an analysis of geographical variation to include single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in adjacent genes on either side of the mth locus, and examined the molecular variatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Duvernell DD,Schmidt PS,Eanes WF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular markers, such as mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite loci, are widely studied to assess population genetics and phylogeography; however, the selective neutrality of these markers is increasingly being questioned. Given the importance of molecular markers in fisheries science and conservation, we evaluated t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McCusker MR,Bentzen P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between genomic and phenotypic evolution among replicate populations of Escherichia coli evolved for 1000 generations in four different environments. By resequencing evolved genomes, we identified parallel changes in genes encoding transcription regulators within and between environmen...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Le Gac M,Cooper TF,Cruveiller S,Médigue C,Schneider D

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:The extinction of the giant tortoises of the Seychelles Archipelago has long been suspected but is not beyond doubt. A recent morphological study of the giant tortoises of the western Indian Ocean concluded that specimens of two native Seychelles species survive in captivity today alongside giant tortoises of Aldabra,...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Palkovacs EP,Marschner M,Ciofi C,Gerlach J,Caccone A

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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：:The capercaillie inhabits a continuous range in large parts of the Palearctic boreal forest, but is patchily distributed in temperate Europe. An ongoing population decline, largely related to human land use changes, has been most pronounced in central and western Europe, where some local populations have become extinc...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Segelbacher G,Höglund J,Storch I

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a long-standing debate over whether or not the Pleistocene glaciations promoted speciation. While some models predict that extensive mixing of populations during interglacial expansion would have inhibited divergence, others postulate that divergence among allopatric glacial refuges or founder events during r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Knowles LL

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As natural selection must act on underlying genetic variation, discovering the number and location of loci under the influence of selection is imperative towards understanding adaptive divergence in evolving populations. Studies employing genome scans have hypothesized that the action of divergent selection should red...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rogers SM,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean warming will undoubtedly affect the migratory patterns of many marine species, but specific changes can be predicted only where behavioural mechanisms guiding migration are understood. Southern right whales show maternally inherited site fidelity to near-shore winter nursery grounds, but exactly where they feed ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Valenzuela LO,Sironi M,Rowntree VJ,Seger J

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:In plants, pollination syndromes (the correlated presence of many features of relevance to pollination mode, for instance pollination by a particular animal clade) are a striking feature of plant biodiversity, providing great floral phenotypic diversity (Fenster et al. ). Adaptation to a particular animal pollinator p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cronk Q,Yang JY

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence and restriction site analyses of the paternally inherited chloroplast rbcL gene and maternally inherited mitochondrial nad1 fragments from the same set of populations and individuals were used to investigate cytoplasmic composition and population establishment of Pinus densata, a diploid pine that originated ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Song BH,Wang XQ,Wang XR,Ding KY,Hong DY

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic differentiation in thermal adaptation can result from a trade-off between the performance of organisms across different temperatures or from the accumulation of deleterious mutations. In this experiment, we assayed thermal sensitivity of 138 genetically distinct Mycosphaerella graminicola isolates sampled from...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zhan J,McDonald BA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlates between genetic diversity at intra- and interpopulation levels and the species diversity in plant communities are rarely investigated. Such correlates may give insights into the effect of local selective forces across different communities on the genetic diversity of local plant populations. This study has ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Odat N,Jetschke G,Hellwig FH

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00