The discovery of Antarctic RNA viruses: a new game changer.

abstract：:The variation and taxonomic diversity among mammalian gut microbiomes raises several questions about the factors that contribute to the rates and patterns of change in these microbial communities. By comparing the microbiome compositions of 112 species representing 14 mammalian orders, we assessed how host and ecologi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nishida AH,Ochman H

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Molecular analysis of predation, through polymerase chain reaction amplification of prey remains within the faeces or digestive systems of predators, is a rapidly growing field, impeded by a lack of readily accessible advice on best practice. Here, we review the techniques used to date and provide guidelines accessibl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： King RA,Read DS,Traugott M,Symondson WO

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:High-latitude ecotonal populations at the species margins may exhibit altered patterns of genetic diversity, resulting from more or less recent founder events and from bottleneck effects in response to climate oscillations. Patterns of genetic diversity were investigated in nine populations of the conifer black spruce...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gamache I,Jaramillo-Correa JP,Payette S,Bousquet J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several species of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio) are Batesian mimics that express multiple mimetic female forms, while the males are monomorphic and nonmimetic. The evolution of such sex-limited mimicry may involve sexual dimorphism arising first and mimicry subsequently. Such a stepwise scenario through a n...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Timmermans MJ,Thompson MJ,Collins S,Vogler AP

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity allows organisms to adapt quickly to local environmental conditions and could facilitate adaptive radiations. Cichlids have recently undergone an adaptive radiation in Lake Malawi where they inhabit diverse light environments and tune their visual sensitivity through differences in cone opsin exp...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nandamuri SP,Yourick MR,Carleton KL

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At high altitude, the reduced availability of thermal energy and oxygen poses major challenges to organisms. Different species or populations have evolved similar solutions to these challenges, such as blood flow regulation in animals (Bouverot, 1985). Previous studies investigating such convergent adaptations have pr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mazel F

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population differentiation (PD) and ecological association (EA) tests have recently emerged as prominent statistical methods to investigate signatures of local adaptation using population genomic data. Based on statistical models, these genomewide testing procedures have attracted considerable attention as tools to id...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： François O,Martins H,Caye K,Schoville SD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Whether alpine plant species survived Pleistocene glaciations in situ on high alpine nunatak mountains is still under debate. To test this hypothesis, Senecio halleri, a high alpine and endemic species with a narrow distribution range in the European Alps, was chosen as a model organism. Polymerase chain reaction-rest...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bettin O,Cornejo C,Edwards PJ,Holderegger R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In insect societies, worker vs. queen development (reproductive caste) is typically governed by environmental factors, but many Pogonomyrmex seed-harvester ants exhibit strict genetic caste determination, resulting in an obligate mutualism between two reproductively isolated lineages. Same-lineage matings produce fert...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Anderson KE,Wheeler DE,Yang K,Linksvayer TA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) is an ecologically dominant grass with wide distribution across the environmental gradient of U.S. Midwest grasslands. This system offers an ideal natural laboratory to study population divergence and adaptation in spatially varying climates. Objectives were to: (i) characterize neut...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gray MM,St Amand P,Bello NM,Galliart MB,Knapp M,Garrett KA,Morgan TJ,Baer SG,Maricle BR,Akhunov ED,Johnson LC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conservation programmes aim at maximizing the survival probability of populations, by minimizing the loss of genetic diversity, which allows populations to adapt to changes, and controlling inbreeding increases. The best known strategy to achieve these goals is optimizing the contributions of the parents to minimize g...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： de Cara MÁ,Villanueva B,Toro MÁ,Fernández J

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Common groundsel, Senecio vulgaris (Asteraceae), is a highly selfing semelparous ephemeral weed that belongs to the few plant species in central Europe capable of growing, flowering and fruiting all year round. In temperate climates, flowering S. vulgaris cohorts were found to appear up to three times per year. Using ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Haldimann P,Steinger T,Müller-Schärer H

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal drives diverse processes from population persistence to community dynamics. However, the amount of temporal variation in dispersal and its consequences for metapopulation dynamics is largely unknown for organisms with environmentally driven dispersal (e.g., many marine larvae, arthropods and plant seeds). He...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Catalano KA,Dedrick AG,Stuart MR,Puritz JB,Montes HR Jr,Pinsky ML

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to their maternal mode of inheritance, mitochondrial markers can be regarded as almost 'ideal' tools in evolutionary studies of conifer populations. In the present study, polymorphism was analysed at one mitochondrial intron (nad 1, exon B/C) in 23 native European Pinus sylvestris populations. In a preliminary scr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Soranzo N,Alia R,Provan J,Powell W

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-specific chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) variation was studied in Sorbus aucuparia L., an entomophilous, mid-or early successional tree producing fleshy fruits. Eight PCR-amplified fragments of the chloroplast genome were screened for restriction fragment length polymorphisms, using one or two 4 bp-cutter restriction en...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Raspé O,Saumitou-Laprade P,Cuguen J,Jacquemart AL

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the contribution of different molecular processes to evolution and development is crucial for identifying the mechanisms of adaptation. Here, we used RNA-seq data to test the importance of alternative splicing and differential gene expression in a case of parallel adaptive evolution, the replicated postg...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jacobs A,Elmer KR

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Clarification of the genetic structure and population history of a species can shed light on the impacts of landscapes, historical climate change and contemporary human activities and thus enables evidence-based conservation decisions for endangered organisms. The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is an endangered species d...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hu Y,Guo Y,Qi D,Zhan X,Wu H,Bruford MW,Wei F

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reef corals are especially sensitive to environmental change since their survival is dependent on a delicate balance between the coral host and its algal endosymbiont. Predicting the responses of reef ecosystems to global climate change requires a detailed understanding of the diversity of both partners in this symbio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： van Oppen MJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Greater prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) were once found throughout the tallgrass prairie of midwestern North America but over the last century these prairies have been lost or fragmented by human land use. As a consequence, many current populations of prairie-chickens have become isolated and small. Thi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Johnson JA,Toepfer JE,Dunn PO

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the genetic basis of adaptive population divergence is a goal of central importance in evolutionary biology. In principle, it should be possible to identify chromosomal regions involved in adaptive divergence by screening genome-wide patterns of DNA polymorphism to detect the locus-specific signature of po...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Storz JF

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasions that involve well-documented rapid adaptations to new environments provide unequalled opportunities for testing evolutionary hypotheses. Mikania micrantha Kunth (Asteraceae), a perennial herbaceous vine native to tropical Central and South America, successfully invaded tropical Asia in the early 2...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Yang M,He Z,Huang Y,Lu L,Yan Y,Hong L,Shen H,Liu Y,Guo Q,Jiang L,Zhang Y,Greenberg AJ,Zhou R,Ge X,Wu CI,Shi S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence suggests that average telomere length reflects previous stress and predicts subsequent survival across vertebrate species. In humans, leucocyte telomere length (LTL) is consistently shorter during adulthood in males than in females, although the causes of this sex difference and its generality to oth...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Watson RL,Bird EJ,Underwood S,Wilbourn RV,Fairlie J,Watt K,Salvo-Chirnside E,Pilkington JG,Pemberton JM,McNeilly TN,Froy H,Nussey DH

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species are impacted by climate change at both ecological and evolutionary time scales. Studies in northern continents have provided abundant evidence of dramatic shifts in distributions of species subsequent to the last glacial maximum (LGM), particularly at high latitudes. However, little is known about the history ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lessa EP,D'Elía G,Pardiñas UF

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cichlid fish are well known for their high speciation rates, which are usually accompanied by spectacular and rapid diversification in eco-morphological and secondary sexual traits. This is best illustrated by the famous repeated explosive radiations in the African Great Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria, each lak...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pinho C,Faria R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major environmental concerns over genetically modified (GM) crops relates to transgene movement into wild relatives. The pattern of hybridization ultimately affects the scale and rapidity of ecological change and the feasibility of containment. A new procedure for quantifying hybrid formation over large are...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wilkinson MJ,Davenport IJ,Charters YM,Jones AE,Allainguillaume J,Butler HT,Mason DC,Raybould AF

更新日期：2000-07-01 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