Species turnover (β-diversity) in ectomycorrhizal fungi linked to NH4+ uptake capacity.

abstract：:We investigated genetic variation in asexual polyploid members of the water flea Daphnia pulex complex from a set of 12 Bolivian high-altitude lakes. We used nuclear microsatellite markers to study genetic relationships among all encountered multilocus genotypes, and combined this with a phylogenetic approach using DN...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mergeay J,Aguilera X,Declerck S,Petrusek A,Huyse T,De Meester L

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corals play a key role in ocean ecosystems and carbonate balance, but their molecular response to ocean acidification remains unclear. The only previous whole-transcriptome study (Moya et al. Molecular Ecology, 2012; 21, 2440) documented extensive disruption of gene expression, particularly of genes encoding skeletal ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moya A,Huisman L,Forêt S,Gattuso JP,Hayward DC,Ball EE,Miller DJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widely distributed taxa provide an opportunity to compare biogeographic responses to climatic fluctuations on multiple continents and to investigate speciation. We conducted the most geographically and genomically comprehensive study to date of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the world's most widely distributed wild terr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Statham MJ,Murdoch J,Janecka J,Aubry KB,Edwards CJ,Soulsbury CD,Berry O,Wang Z,Harrison D,Pearch M,Tomsett L,Chupasko J,Sacks BN

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Socotra Archipelago is an ancient continental fragment of Gondwanan origin and one of the most isolated landforms on Earth and a biodiversity hot spot. Yet, the biogeography and evolutionary history of its endemic fauna still remain largely overlooked. We investigate the origin, tempo and mode of diversification i...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gómez-Díaz E,Sindaco R,Pupin F,Fasola M,Carranza S

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Asexual lineages are thought to be prone to extinction because of deleterious mutation accumulation (Muller's ratchet). Here, we analyse genomic effects of hybridity, polyploidy and allelic divergence in apomictic plants, and identify loci under divergent selection among sexual/apomictic lineages. RNAseq was used to s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pellino M,Hojsgaard D,Schmutzer T,Scholz U,Hörandl E,Vogel H,Sharbel TF

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleistocene ice-ages greatly influenced the historical abundances of Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus, in the North Pacific and its marginal seas. We surveyed genetic variation at 11 microsatellite loci and mitochondrial (mt) DNA in samples from twelve locations from the Sea of Japan to Washington State. Both microsat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Canino MF,Spies IB,Cunningham KM,Hauser L,Grant WS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crater lakes provide a natural laboratory to study speciation of cichlid fishes by ecological divergence. Up to now, there has been a dearth of transcriptomic and genomic information that would aid in understanding the molecular basis of the phenotypic differentiation between young species. We used next-generation seq...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Elmer KR,Fan S,Gunter HM,Jones JC,Boekhoff S,Kuraku S,Meyer A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probably half of all animal species exhibit a parasitic lifestyle and numerous parasites have recently expanded their distribution and host ranges due to anthropogenic activities. Here, we report on the population genetic structure of the invasive nematode Anguillicola crassus, a parasite in freshwater eels, which rec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wielgoss S,Taraschewski H,Meyer A,Wirth T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese camellia (Camellia japonica) and its seed predator, the camellia weevil (Curculio camelliae), provide a notable example of a geographic mosaic of coevolution. In the species interaction, the offensive trait of the weevil (rostrum length) and the defensive trait of the plant (pericarp thickness) are involved i...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Toju H,Sota T

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphis gossypii is an aphid species that is found throughout the world and is extremely polyphagous. It is considered a major pest of cotton and cucurbit species. In Europe, A. gossypii is assumed to reproduce exclusively by apomictic parthenogenesis. The present study investigates the genetic diversity of A. gossypii ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Fuller SJ,Chavigny P,Lapchin L,Vanlerberghe-Masutti F

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementation of the coalescent model in a Bayesian framework is an emerging strength in genetically based species delimitation studies. By providing an objective measure of species diagnosis, these methods represent a quantitative enhancement to the analysis of multilocus data, and complement more traditional method...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hotaling S,Foley ME,Lawrence NM,Bocanegra J,Blanco MB,Rasoloarison R,Kappeler PM,Barrett MA,Yoder AD,Weisrock DW

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals generally benefit from their gastrointestinal microbiome, but the factors that influence the composition and dynamics of their microbiota remain poorly understood. Studies of nonmodel host species can illuminate how microbiota and their hosts interact in natural environments. We investigated the role of migrat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Turjeman S,Corl A,Wolfenden A,Tsalyuk M,Lublin A,Choi O,Kamath PL,Getz WM,Bowie RCK,Nathan R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the genetic structure of isolated or fragmented species is of critical importance when planning a suitable conservation strategy. In this study, we use nuclear and chloroplast SSRs (simple sequence repeats) to investigate the population genetics of an extremely rare sunflower, Helianthus verticillatus Smal...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ellis JR,Pashley CH,Burke JM,McCauley DE

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:It is now common for population geneticists to estimate FST for a large number of loci across the genome, before testing for selected loci as being outliers to the FST distribution. One surprising result of such FST scans is the often high proportion (>1% and sometimes >10%) of outliers detected, and this is often int...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bierne N,Roze D,Welch JJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Although the importance of host plant chemistry in plant-insect interactions is widely accepted, the genetic basis of adaptation to host plants is not well understood. Here, we investigate transcriptional changes associated with a host plant shift in Drosophila mettleri. While D. mettleri is distributed mainly through...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hoang K,Matzkin LM,Bono JM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) undergoes crowding-induced phase transformation from solitary form to gregarious form. The transformations involves changes in behaviour, colour, development, morphometry, fecundity and endocrine physiology. Recession populations of the desert locust exist primarily in the sol...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ibrahim KM

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:Christmas Island is located at the overlap of the Indian and Pacific Ocean marine provinces and is a hot spot for marine hybridization. Here, we evaluate the ecological framework and genetic consequences of hybridization between butterflyfishes Chaetodon guttatissimus and Chaetodon punctatofasciatus. Further, we compa...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Montanari SR,Hobbs JP,Pratchett MS,Bay LK,Van Herwerden L

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres are dynamic DNA-protein structures that form protective caps at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes. Although initial telomere length is partly genetically determined, subsequent accelerated telomere shortening has been linked to elevated levels of oxidative stress. Recent studies show that short telomere len...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pauliny A,Wagner RH,Augustin J,Szép T,Blomqvist D

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation in brood-parasitic indigobirds (genus Vidua) is a consequence of behavioural imprinting in both males and females. Mimicry of host song by males and host fidelity in female egg laying result in reproductive isolation of indigobirds associated with a given host species. Colonization of new hosts and subseque...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sefc KM,Payne RB,Sorenson MD

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How males gain access to mates and the potential for female choice will determine whether polygyny can operate at several levels, from within litters and groups to the wider population. Female lesser flat-headed bats (Tylonycteris pachypus) form maternity groups in bamboo stems. Unusually for bats, they are multiparou...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hua P,Zhang L,Zhu G,Jones G,Zhang S,Rossiter SJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variance in reproductive success is a major determinant of the degree of genetic drift in a population. While many plants and animals exhibit high variance in their number of progeny, far less is known about these distributions for microorganisms. Here, we used a strain barcoding approach to quantify variability in of...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wright ES,Vetsigian KH

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organismal traits interact with environmental variation to mediate how species respond to shared landscapes. Thus, differences in traits related to dispersal ability or physiological tolerance may result in phylogeographic discordance among co-distributed taxa, even when they are responding to common barriers. We quan...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bell RC,Parra JL,Badjedjea G,Barej MF,Blackburn DC,Burger M,Channing A,Dehling JM,Greenbaum E,Gvoždík V,Kielgast J,Kusamba C,Lötters S,McLaughlin PJ,Nagy ZT,Rödel MO,Portik DM,Stuart BL,VanDerWal J,Zassi-Boulou AG,

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Effective population size (N(e)) is a key parameter to understand evolutionary processes and the viability of endangered populations as it determines the rate of genetic drift and inbreeding. Low Ne can lead to inbreeding depression and reduced population adaptability. In this study, we estimated contemporary N(e) usi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Baalsrud HT,Saether BE,Hagen IJ,Myhre AM,Ringsby TH,Pärn H,Jensen H

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation represents the single most serious threat to the survival of tropical ecosystems. In formulating strategies to counteract the detrimental effects of fragmentation, knowledge of the levels and patterns of genetic diversity within and between natural populations is vital to the establishment of any...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lira CF,Cardoso SR,Ferreira PC,Cardoso MA,Provan J

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping the genes responsible for natural variation and divergence is a challenging task. Many studies have mapped genes to genomic regions or generated lists of candidates, but few studies have implicated specific genes with a high standard of evidence. I propose that combining recent advances in genomic engineering ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Turner TL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00