Differential gene expression in narrow- and broad-headed European glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) points to a transcriptomic link of head shape dimorphism with growth rate and chemotaxis.

abstract：:The attine ants are a monophyletic lineage that switched to fungus farming ca. 55-60 MYA. They have become a model for the study of complex symbioses after additional fungal and bacterial symbionts were discovered, but their abdominal endosymbiotic bacteria remain largely unknown. Here, we present a comparative microb...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sapountzis P,Nash DR,Schiøtt M,Boomsma JJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal is a key biological process serving several functions including connectivity among populations. Habitat fragmentation caused by natural or anthropogenic structures may hamper dispersal, thereby disrupting genetic connectivity. Investigating factors affecting dispersal and gene flow is important in the curren...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Trense D,Schmidt TL,Yang Q,Chung J,Hoffmann AA,Fischer K

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Monarch butterflies are known for their spectacular annual migration in eastern North America, with millions of monarchs flying up to 4,500 km to overwintering sites in central Mexico. Monarchs also live west of the Rocky Mountains, where they travel shorter distances to overwinter along the Pacific Coast. It is often...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Talla V,Pierce AA,Adams KL,de Man TJB,Nallu S,Villablanca FX,Kronforst MR,de Roode JC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in molecular biology and bioinformatics have helped to unveil striking and previously unrecognized patterns of geographic genetic structure in marine populations. Largely driven by the pressing needs of fisheries management and conservation, studies on marine fish populations have played a pivotal role...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sala-Bozano M,Ketmaier V,Mariani S

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:We used behavioural observations and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence analysis to examine demographic and genetic structure within and among home-range groups of desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) ewes in the Peninsular Ranges of southern California, USA. We identified substantial genetic variation in the first ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Boyce WM,Ramey RR 2nd,Rodwell TC,Rubin ES,Singer RS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of intrinsic barriers to gene flow is often neglected in empirical research on local adaptation and speciation with gene flow, for example when interpreting patterns observed in genome scans. However, we draw attention to the fact that, even with gene flow, divergent ecological selection may generate i...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kulmuni J,Westram AM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discordance between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes is a prevalent phenomenon in nature, in which the underlying processes responsible are considered to be important in shaping genetic variation in natural populations. Among the evolutionary processes that best explain such genomic mismatches incomplete lineage ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Streicher JW,Day JJ

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The codling moth, Cydia pomonella, is renowned for developing resistance to insecticides and causing significant economic damage to pome fruits worldwide. In spite of its economic importance, little is known about the patterns of movement of this pest and the effects of insecticide treatment on the population genetic ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Franck P,Reyes M,Olivares J,Sauphanor B

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses evolve to balance the benefits of microbial killing against the costs of autoimmunity and energetic resource use. Models that explore the evolution of optimal immune responses generally include a term for constitutive immunity, or the level of immunological investment prior to microbial exposure, and ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jent D,Perry A,Critchlow J,Tate AT

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly expressed proteins can exhibit relatively small material costs, in terms of the quantities of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) or sulphur (S) atoms they contain. This 'elemental sparing' probably reflects selection to reduce the quantities of potentially growth-limiting elements in abundant proteins, but the evolutiona...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bragg JG,Quigg A,Raven JA,Wagner A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologists are increasingly interested in quantifying consumer diets based on food DNA in dietary samples and high-throughput sequencing of marker genes. It is tempting to assume that food DNA sequence proportions recovered from diet samples are representative of consumer's diet proportions, despite the fact that capt...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Thomas AC,Jarman SN,Haman KH,Trites AW,Deagle BE

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract of animals play vital roles in food digestion, homeostasis and immune response regulation. Globally, there are 33,700 fish species, representing almost half of all vertebrate diversity and a wide range of physiologies, ecologies and life histories. To investigate gut microb...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Huang Q,Sham RC,Deng Y,Mao Y,Wang C,Zhang T,Leung KMY

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Neolithic transition has been widely debated particularly regarding the extent to which this revolution implied a demographic expansion from the Near East. We attempted to shed some light on this process in northeastern Iberia by combining ancient DNA (aDNA) data from Early Neolithic settlers and published DNA dat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gamba C,Fernández E,Tirado M,Deguilloux MF,Pemonge MH,Utrilla P,Edo M,Molist M,Rasteiro R,Chikhi L,Arroyo-Pardo E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Edaphic specialization is one of the main drivers of plant diversification and has multifaceted effects on population dynamics. Carex angustisquama is a sedge plant growing only on heavily acidified soil in solfatara fields, where only extremophytes can survive. Because of the lack of closely related species in simila...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nagasawa K,Setoguchi H,Maki M,Goto H,Fukushima K,Isagi Y,Suyama Y,Matsuo A,Tsunamoto Y,Sawa K,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its inherent costs, sexual reproduction is ubiquitous in nature, and the mechanisms to protect it from a competitive displacement by asexuality remain unclear. Popular mutation-based explanations, like the Muller's ratchet and the Kondrashov's hatchet, assume that purifying selection may not halt the accumulat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kočí J,Röslein J,Pačes J,Kotusz J,Halačka K,Koščo J,Fedorčák J,Iakovenko N,Janko K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the relative role of different evolutionary forces in shaping the level and distribution of functional genetic diversity among natural populations is a key issue in evolutionary and conservation biology. To do so accurately genetic data must be analysed in conjunction with an unambiguous understanding of...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gonzalez-Quevedo C,Spurgin LG,Illera JC,Richardson DS

更新日期：2015-12-01 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 lizard genus Kentropyx (Squamata: Teiidae) comprises nine species, which have been placed in three species groups (calcarata group, associated to forests ecosystems; paulensis and striata groups, associated to open ecosystems). We reconstructed phylogenetic relationships of Kentropyx based on morphology (pholidosi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Werneck Fde P,Giugliano LG,Collevatti RG,Colli GR

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Few studies have investigated the genetic structure of both host and parasite populations at a level of populations and at a level of individuals. We investigated the genetic structure of the urban cockroach Blattella germanica and its oxyuroid parasite Blatticola blattae. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) marke...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jobet E,Durand P,Langand J,Müller-Graf CD,Hugot JP,Bougnoux ME,Rivault C,Cloarec A,Morand S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sky islands are ideal systems for determining the effects of climatic oscillations on species distributions and genetic structure. Our study focused on montane stonefly populations in the Great Basin of western North America. We used niche-based distribution modelling, phylogeography and traditional species-based biog...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schultheis AS,Booth JY,Perlmutter LR,Bond JE,Sheldon AL

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed genetic differentiation and diversity in 14 populations of sika deer (Cervus nippon) from Japan and four populations of sika deer introduced to the UK, using nine microsatellite loci. We observed extreme levels of differentiation and significant differences in diversity between populations. Our results do ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Goodman SJ,Tamate HB,Wilson R,Nagata J,Tatsuzawa S,Swanson GM,Pemberton JM,McCullough DR

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination rate is a heritable trait that varies among individuals. Despite the major impact of recombination rate on patterns of genetic diversity and the efficacy of selection, natural variation in this phenotype remains poorly characterized. We present a comparison of genetic maps, sampling 1212 meioses, from a ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wang RJ,Gray MM,Parmenter MD,Broman KW,Payseur BA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding divergent adaptation and ecological speciation requires the synthesis of multiple approaches, including phenotypic characterization, genetics and genomics, realistic assessment of fitness and population genetic modelling. Current research in this field often approaches this problem from one of two direct...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Byers KJ,Xu S,Schlüter PM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellites are one of the most important classes of nuclear genetic markers and offer many advantages for the study of marine mammals. Here we describe the isolation and characterization of 12 cetacean microsatellites which are then tested across 30 different cetacean species. For around half the species tested, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Valsecchi E,Amos W

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbreeding can have negative consequences on population and individual fitness, which could be counteracted by inbreeding avoidance mechanisms. However, the inbreeding risk and inbreeding avoidance mechanisms in endangered species are less studied. The giant panda, a solitary and threatened species, lives in many smal...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hu Y,Nie Y,Wei W,Ma T,Van Horn R,Zheng X,Swaisgood RR,Zhou Z,Zhou W,Yan L,Zhang Z,Wei F

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Landscape genetics is an important framework for investigating the influence of spatial pattern on ecological process. Nevertheless, the standard analytic frameworks in landscape genetics have difficulty evaluating hypotheses about spatial processes in dynamic landscapes. We use a predictive hypothesis-driven approach...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pavlacky DC Jr,Goldizen AW,Prentis PJ,Nicholls JA,Lowe AJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of speciation remains a fundamental topic in evolutionary biology. Numerous models of speciation have been proposed and they are as diverse and colourful as the scientists who conceived them (Coyne & Orr 2004). One of the more controversial theories has been the 'stasipatric speciation' model, proposed by ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kearney M,Hewitt G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00