Experimental test of genetic rescue in isolated populations of brook trout.

abstract：:Lions were the most widespread carnivores in the late Pleistocene, ranging from southern Africa to the southern USA, but little is known about the evolutionary relationships among these Pleistocene populations or the dynamics that led to their extinction. Using ancient DNA techniques, we obtained mitochondrial sequenc...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Barnett R,Shapiro B,Barnes I,Ho SY,Burger J,Yamaguchi N,Higham TF,Wheeler HT,Rosendahl W,Sher AV,Sotnikova M,Kuznetsova T,Baryshnikov GF,Martin LD,Harington CR,Burns JA,Cooper A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the ecological significance of the mutualistic relationship between Symbiodiniaceae and reef-building corals, the molecular interactions during establishment of this relationship are not well understood. This is particularly true of the transcriptional changes that occur in the symbiont. In the current study, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mohamed AR,Andrade N,Moya A,Chan CX,Negri AP,Bourne DG,Ying H,Ball EE,Miller DJ

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed evaluations of genomic variation between sister species often reveal distinct chromosomal regions of high relative differentiation (i.e., "islands of differentiation" in FST ), but there is much debate regarding the causes of this pattern. We briefly review the prominent models of genomic islands of different...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Irwin DE,Milá B,Toews DPL,Brelsford A,Kenyon HL,Porter AN,Grossen C,Delmore KE,Alcaide M,Irwin JH

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most plant species are recent or ancient polyploids (displaying at least one round of genome duplication in their history). Cultivated species (e.g. wheat, cotton, canola, sugarcane, coffee) and invasive species are often relatively recent polyploids, and frequently of hybrid origin (i.e. allopolyploids). Despite the ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Salmon A,Ainouche ML

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity in experimental, domesticated and wild populations of the related yeasts, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus, has been well described at the global scale. We investigated the population genomics of a local population on a small spatial scale to address two main questions. First, is ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Xia W,Nielly-Thibault L,Charron G,Landry CR,Kasimer D,Anderson JB,Kohn LM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogeographical studies are emerging as a powerful tool for understanding the population structure and evolution of wild relatives of crop species. Because of their value as genetic resources, there is great interest in exploring the distribution of variation in wild relatives of cultivated plants. In this study, we...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Caicedo AL,Schaal BA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the evolutionary consequences of human-mediated introductions of domesticated strains into the wild and their subsequent admixture with natural populations is of major concern in conservation biology. However, the genomic impacts of stocking from distinct sources (locally derived vs. divergent) on the ge...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Leitwein M,Gagnaire PA,Desmarais E,Berrebi P,Guinand B

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat loss and fragmentation often reduce gene flow and genetic diversity in plants by disrupting the movement of pollen and seed. However, direct comparisons of the contributions of pollen vs. seed dispersal to genetic variation in fragmented landscapes are lacking. To address this knowledge gap, we partitioned the...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Browne L,Karubian J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral reefs in the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) are among the most isolated in the world. This isolation has resulted in relatively low species diversity but comparatively high endemism. The dominant reef-building corals of the TEP are the Pocillopora corals, a ubiquitous Indo-Pacific genus commonly regarded as infe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Combosch DJ,Guzman HM,Schuhmacher H,Vollmer SV

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Genetic subdivision in local populations of the European house mice, Mus musculus domesticus and M. m. musculus, was analysed to study patterns of gene flow. The data consisted of frequencies of microsatellite alleles in 16 samples (250 individuals) from a total of 11 sites in Jutland, which included successive sample...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dallas JF,Dod B,Boursot P,Prager EM,Bonhomme F

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting and controlling infectious disease epidemics is a major challenge facing the management of agriculture, human and wildlife health. Co-evolutionarily derived patterns of local adaptation among pathogen populations have the potential to generate variation in disease epidemiology; however, studies of local ada...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Parratt SR,Barrès B,Penczykowski RM,Laine AL

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies using molecular markers have shown that some grey seal males may be gaining success through exhibiting alternative mating tactics. We estimated the probability of fertilization success of grey seal males exhibiting the primary tactic of female defence and one alternative tactic of mating with departing females...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lidgard DC,Boness DJ,Bowen WD,McMillan JI,Fleischer RC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geographic distributions of marine fishes have been shaped by ancient vicariance and ongoing dispersal events. Some species exhibit anti-equatorial distributions, inhabiting temperate regions on both sides of the tropics while being absent from equatorial latitudes. The perciform fish Microcanthus strigatus (the s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Tea YK,Van Der Wal C,Ludt WB,Gill AC,Lo N,Ho SYW

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Urban fragmentation can reduce gene flow that isolates populations, reduces genetic diversity and increases population differentiation, all of which have negative conservation implications. Alternatively, gene flow may actually be increased among urban areas consistent with an urban facilitation model. In fact, urban ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Miles LS,Johnson JC,Dyer RJ,Verrelli BC

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation of DNA methylation is thought to play an important role for rapid adjustments of plant populations to dynamic environmental conditions, thus compensating for the relatively slow response time of genetic adaptations. However, genetic and epigenetic variation of wild plant populations has not yet been directly...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schulz B,Eckstein RL,Durka W

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed genetic markers for three microsatellite loci in the tropical tree Symphonia globulifera and used them to examine the demographic genetic consequences of forest fragmentation. High levels of genetic variation were revealed in samples of adults, saplings, and seedlings. The more-variable loci exhibited les...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Aldrich PR,Hamrick JL,Chavarriaga P,Kochert G

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA sequence data for 295 individuals of the marine bivalve Macoma balthica (L.) were collected from 10 sites across the European distribution, and from Alaska. The data were used to infer population subdivision history and estimate current levels of gene flow. Inferred historical biogeography was expect...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Luttikhuizen PC,Drent J,Baker AJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) is a highly virulent lagovirus endemic in Europe and Australasian populations of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus. It has also caused several unexplained disease outbreaks in domestic European rabbits in North America. Non-pathogenic spread of RHDV leading to persiste...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Peacock D,Mutze G,Sinclair R,Kovaliski J,Cooke B

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:Seed germination is a key life history transition for annual plants and partly determines lifetime performance and fitness. Germination speed, the elapsed time for a nondormant seed to germinate, is a poorly understood trait important for plants' competitiveness and fitness in fluctuating environments. Germination spe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Yuan W,Flowers JM,Sahraie DJ,Ehrenreich IM,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural genetic breaks may indicate limitations to gene flow or the presence of contact zones of previously isolated populations. Molecular evidence suggests that genetic breaks have aggregated in distinct geographical areas. We propose a new application of well-established statistical methods for analysing multilocus...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Thiel-Egenter C,Holderegger R,Brodbeck S,IntraBioDiv Consortium.,Gugerli F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual selection may facilitate genetic isolation among populations and result in increased rates of diversification. As a mechanism driving diversification, sexual selection has been invoked and upheld in numerous empirical studies across disparate taxa, including birds, plants and spiders. In this study, we investig...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chakrabarty P,Davis MP,Smith WL,Baldwin ZH,Sparks JS

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species of horned lizards are sympatric along the periphery of the Salton Trough. Phrynosoma mcallii, endemic to the trough, is of conservation concern because its limited habitat has been fragmented by human activities. A more common and widespread species, Phrynosoma platyrhinos, occurs around the periphery of t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mulcahy DG,Spaulding AW,Mendelson JR 3rd,Brodie ED Jr

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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：:Niche partitioning through foraging is a mechanism likely involved in facilitating the coexistence of ecologically similar and co-occurring animal species by separating their use of resources. Yet, this mechanism is not well understood in flying insectivorous animals. This is particularly true of bats, where many ecol...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Arrizabalaga-Escudero A,Clare EL,Salsamendi E,Alberdi A,Garin I,Aihartza J,Goiti U

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity allows for changes in phenotype in response to environmental cues, often facilitating local adaptation to seasonal environments. Phenotypic plasticity alone, however, may not always be sufficient to ensure adaptation to new localities. In particular, changing cues associated with shifting seasonal regimes m...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hyma KE,Caicedo AL

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In terrestrial ecosystems, plant species and diverse root-associated fungi form complex networks of host-symbiont associations. Recent studies have revealed that structures of those below-ground plant-fungus networks differ between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal symbioses. Nonetheless, we still remain igno...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Toju H,Tanabe AS,Ishii HS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00