Assessing niche partitioning of co-occurring sibling bat species by DNA metabarcoding.

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：:Fragmentation and loss of natural habitats are recognized as major threats to contemporary flora and fauna. Detecting past or current reductions in population size is therefore a major aim in conservation genetics. Statistical methods developed to this purpose have tended to ignore the effects of spatial population st...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Leblois R,Estoup A,Streiff R

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weedy rice (Oryza spp.), a weedy relative of cultivated rice (O. sativa), infests and persists in cultivated rice fields worldwide. Many weedy rice populations have evolved similar adaptive traits, considered part of the 'agricultural weed syndrome', making this an ideal model to study the genetic basis of parallel ev...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Huang Z,Young ND,Reagon M,Hyma KE,Olsen KM,Jia Y,Caicedo AL

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detecting signatures of selection in tree populations threatened by climate change is currently a major research priority. Here, we investigated the signature of local adaptation over a short spatial scale using 96 European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) individuals originating from two pairs of populations on the norther...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Csilléry K,Lalagüe H,Vendramin GG,González-Martínez SC,Fady B,Oddou-Muratorio S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the spatial scale at which selection acts upon adaptive genetic variation in natural populations is fundamental to our understanding of evolutionary ecology, and has important ramifications for conservation. The environmental factors to which individuals of a population are exposed can vary at fine spati...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gonzalez-Quevedo C,Davies RG,Phillips KP,Spurgin LG,Richardson DS

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that control the assembly and composition of endophyte communities across plant hosts remains poorly understood. This is especially true for endophyte communities inhabiting inner tree bark, one of the least studied components of the plant microbiome. Here, we test the hypothesis that bark of different tre...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pellitier PT,Zak DR,Salley SO

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：: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：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, coding molecules which play an important role in immune response, are the most polymorphic genes known in vertebrates. However, MHC polymorphism in some species is limited. MHC monomorphism at several MHC class I and II loci was previously reported for two neighbouring nor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Babik W,Durka W,Radwan J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The California Floristic Province harbours more endemic plant and animal taxa and more identifiable subspecies than any other area of comparable size in North America. We present evidence that physical historical processes have resulted in congruent patterns of genetic diversity over the past 2-10 million years. Using...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Calsbeek R,Thompson JN,Richardson JE

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:A new polymerase chain reaction-based screening method for microsatellites is presented. Using this method, we isolated 12 microsatellite loci from Drosophila buzzatii, two of which were X-linked. We applied the other 10 microsatellite loci to the analysis of genetic variation in five natural populations of D. buzzati...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Frydenberg J,Pertoldi C,Dahlgaard J,Loeschcke V

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring heat shock (HS) during pupation induces abnormal wing development in Drosophila; we examined factors affecting the severity of this induction. The proportion of HS-surviving adults with abnormal wings varied with HS duration and intensity, and with the pupal age or stage at HS administration. Pretr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Williams KD,Helin AB,Posluszny J,Roberts SP,Feder ME

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:Natural hybridization between closely related taxa is frequent in many organismal groups, yet it has long been perceived as a force preventing diversification and speciation, especially so in animals. In recent years, growing evidence in favour of hybridization facilitating adaptive divergence has accumulated (Mallet ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Renaut S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently evolved species typically share genetic variation across their genomes due to incomplete lineage sorting and/or ongoing gene flow. Given only subtle allele frequency differences at most loci and the expectation that divergent selection may affect only a tiny fraction of the genome, distinguishing closely rela...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lavretsky P,DaCosta JM,Sorenson MD,McCracken KG,Peters JL

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual-based assignment tests are now standard tools in molecular ecology and have several applications, including the study of dispersal. The measurement of natal dispersal is vital to understanding the ecology of many species, yet the accuracy of assignment tests in situations where natal dispersal is common rem...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Berry O,Tocher MD,Sarre SD

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity vary among species. This may be attributed to the interacting effects of species traits and landscape structure. While widely distributed and abundant species are often considered less susceptible to fragmentation, this may be different if they are small sized and ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lange R,Durka W,Holzhauer SI,Wolters V,Diekötter T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal populations are often characterized by reduced levels of genotypic diversity, which can translate into lower numbers of functional phenotypes, both of which impede adaptation. Study of partially clonal animals enables examination of the environmental settings under which clonal reproduction is favoured. Here, w...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dubé CE,Boissin E,Maynard JA,Planes S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the greatest threats to the long-term viability of migrating plant species is the loss of genetic diversity due to founder effects. Populations can expand as a response to climate change, but it is uncertain if long-lived plant species can maintain sufficient genetic diversity at the leading edge of migrating p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pluess AR

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of pedigree information, the determination of genetic distinctness of populations can only be made by genetic methods. Using DNA fingerprinting on the North American captive herd of Speke's gazelle Gazella spekei, we were able to address two hypotheses. First, two new individuals were found to have come...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Butler MA,Templeton AR,Read B

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:Interbreeding species often produce low-fitness hybrids due to genetic incompatibilities between parental genomes. Whether these incompatibilities reflect fixed allelic differences between hybridizing species, or, alternatively, standing variants that segregate within them, remains unknown for many natural systems. Ye...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Seidl F,Levis NA,Jones CD,Monroy-Eklund A,Ehrenreich IM,Pfennig KS

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural hybridization accompanied by a shift in niche preference by hybrid genotypes can lead to hybrid speciation. Natural selection may cause the fixation of advantageous alleles in the ecologically diverged hybrids, and the loci experiencing selection should exhibit a reduction in allelic diversity relative to neut...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sapir Y,Moody ML,Brouillette LC,Donovan LA,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary goal of captive breeding programmes for endangered species is to prevent extinction, a component of which includes the preservation of genetic diversity and avoidance of inbreeding. This is typically accomplished by minimizing mean kinship in the population, thereby maintaining equal representation of the ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hammerly SC,Morrow ME,Johnson JA

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:The dynamics and consequences of introgression can inform about numerous evolutionary processes. Biologists have therefore long been interested in hybridization. One challenge, however, lies in the identification of nonadmixed genotypes that can serve as a baseline for accurate quantification of admixture. In this iss...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hailer F

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population dynamics of a parasite depend on species traits, host dynamics and the environment. Those dynamics are reflected in the genetic structure of the population. Habitat fragmentation has a greater impact on parasites than on their hosts because resource distribution is increasingly fragmented for species at...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Couchoux C,Seppä P,van Nouhuys S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence studies frequently reveal evidence of cryptic lineages in morphologically uniform species, many of which turn out to be evolutionarily distinct species. The Common Raven (Corvus corax) includes two deeply divergent mtDNA lineages: one lineage seems restricted to western North America and the other is Hola...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Webb WC,Marzluff JM,Omland KE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facilitated by the intensification of global trading, the introduction and dispersal of species to areas in which they are historically non-native is nowadays common. From an evolutionary standpoint, invasions are paradoxical: not only non-native environments could be different from native ones for which introduced in...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Baltazar-Soares M,Blanchet S,Cote J,Tarkan AS,Záhorská E,Gozlan RE,Eizaguirre C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00