Sexual conflict and the maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations.

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：:Black rats are major invasive vertebrate pests with severe ecological, economic and health impacts. Remarkably, their evolutionary history has received little attention, and there is no firm agreement on how many species should be recognized within the black rat complex. This species complex is native to India and Sou...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pagès M,Bazin E,Galan M,Chaval Y,Claude J,Herbreteau V,Michaux J,Piry S,Morand S,Cosson JF

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major challenges in evolutionary biology is to understand the mechanisms underlying morphological dimorphism and plasticity, including the genomic basis of traits and links to ecology. At the yellow eel stage of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), two morphotypes are found: broad- and narrow-heads. This d...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： De Meyer J,Maes GE,Dirks RP,Adriaens D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproducibility is the benchmark for results and conclusions drawn from scientific studies, but systematic studies on the reproducibility of scientific results are surprisingly rare. Moreover, many modern statistical methods make use of 'random walk' model fitting procedures, and these are inherently stochastic in the...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gilbert KJ,Andrew RL,Bock DG,Franklin MT,Kane NC,Moore JS,Moyers BT,Renaut S,Rennison DJ,Veen T,Vines TH

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:SSCP (single-strand conformational polymorphism) is used widely in the field of human biomedicine, but its potential as a population genetics tool for the recovery of nuclear gene genealogies remains to be realized. We describe and illustrate a use for SSCP in the physical isolation of nuclear haplotypes that circumve...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ortí G,Hare MP,Avise JC

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the co-evolutionary arms race between plants and herbivores, insects evolved systematic adaptive plasticity to minimize the chemical defence effects of their host plants. Previous studies mainly focused on the expressional plasticity of enzymes in detoxification and digestion. However, the expressional response...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Li X,Shi L,Dai X,Chen Y,Xie H,Feng M,Chen Y,Wang H

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most striking and consistent results in speciation genomics is the heterogeneous divergence observed across the genomes of closely related species. This pattern was initially attributed to different levels of gene exchange-with divergence preserved at loci generating a barrier to gene flow but homogenized a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Field DL,Fraïsse C

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel patterns of adaptive divergence and speciation are cited as powerful evidence for the role of selection driving these processes. However, it is often not clear whether parallel phenotypic divergence is underlain by parallel genetic changes. Here, we asked about the genetic basis of parallel divergence in the ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Westram AM,Galindo J,Alm Rosenblad M,Grahame JW,Panova M,Butlin RK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of exotic plant species that have been introduced into the United States far exceeds that of other groups of organisms, and many of these have become invasive. As in many regions of the globe, invasive members of the thistle tribe, Cardueae, are highly problematic in the California Floristic Province, an es...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Park DS,Potter D

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, the last 20 years have seen a spectacular increase in accidental introductions of marine species, but it has recently been suggested that both the actual number of invaders and their impacts have been seriously underestimated because of the prevalence of sibling species in marine habitats. The red alga Poly...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McIvor L,Maggs CA,Provan J,Stanhope MJ

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic diversity is the evolutionary foundation for adaptation to environmental change and thus is essential to consider in conservation planning. Island species are ideal for investigating the evolutionary drivers of genomic diversity, in part because of the potential for biological replicates. Here, we use genome d...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Brüniche-Olsen A,Kellner KF,DeWoody JA

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiomes of rhizocompartments (nodule endophytes, root endophytes, rhizosphere and root zone) in soya bean and alfalfa were analysed using high-throughput sequencing to investigate the interactions among legume species, microorganisms and soil types. A clear hierarchical filtration of microbiota by plants was o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Xiao X,Chen W,Zong L,Yang J,Jiao S,Lin Y,Wang E,Wei G

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both historical and contemporary processes influence the genetic structure of species, but the relative roles of such processes are still difficult to access. Population genetic studies of species with recent evolutionary histories such as the New Zealand endemic scallop Pecten novaezelandiae (<1 Ma) permit testing of...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Silva CN,Gardner JP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmoregulation is a vital physiological function for fish, as it helps maintain a stable intracellular concentration of ions in environments of variable salinities. We focused on a primarily freshwater species, the European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus), to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying salinity to...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Papakostas S,Vasemägi A,Vähä JP,Himberg M,Peil L,Primmer CR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike other migratory hummingbirds in North America, the broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) exhibits both long-distance migratory behaviour in the USA and sedentary behaviour in Mexico and Guatemala. We examined the evolution of migration linked to its northward expansion using a multiperspective appr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Malpica A,Ornelas JF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climatic oscillations during the last few million years had well-documented effects on the distributions and genomes of temperate plants and animals, but much less is known of their impacts on tropical and subtropical species. In contrast to Europe and North America, ice-sheets did not cover most of China during glaci...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chen Y,Compton SG,Liu M,Chen XY

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sweat bees (Family Halictidae) are a socially diverse taxon in which eusociality has arisen independently numerous times. The obligate, primitively eusocial Lasioglossum malachurum, distributed widely throughout Europe, has been considered the zenith of sociality within halictids. A single queen heads a colony of ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Paxton RJ,Ayasse M,Field J,Soro A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of integration between associated partners can range from ectosymbioses to extracellular and intracellular endosymbioses, and this range has been assumed to reflect a continuum from less intimate to evolutionarily highly stable associations. In this study, we examined the specificity and evolutionary history...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zimmermann J,Wentrup C,Sadowski M,Blazejak A,Gruber-Vodicka HR,Kleiner M,Ott JA,Cronholm B,De Wit P,Erséus C,Dubilier N

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Morick et al. (2011) present an interesting study of acquisition and transmission of Bartonella by Xenopsylla ramesis fleas (Fig. 1) which infest naturally wild desert rodents from the Negev desert. A major issue with vector-borne diseases and vector-borne infection is to know wheth...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chomel BB

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether spatial aspects of evolution differ in marine versus terrestrial realms has endured since Ernst Mayr's 1954 essay on marine speciation. Marine systems are often suggested to support larger and more highly connected populations, but quantitative comparisons with terrestrial systems have been lac...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ludington AJ,Sanders KL

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theory has examined the way in which vaccination strategies are expected to influence the evolution of parasite virulence. Most of this work has assumed that vaccination is imposed on a homogeneous host population. However, host populations are typically composed of different types of individuals, with each typ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Williams PD,Day T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation is often arrayed in latitudinal or altitudinal clines, reflecting either adaptation along environmental gradients, migratory routes, or both. For forest trees, climate is one of the most important drivers of adaptive phenotypic traits. Correlations of single and multilocus genotypes with environmenta...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Eckert AJ,Bower AD,González-Martínez SC,Wegrzyn JL,Coop G,Neale DB

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：: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：:The concept of kinship permeates many domains of fundamental and applied biology ranging from social evolution to conservation science to quantitative and human genetics. Until recently, pedigrees were the gold standard to infer kinship, but the advent of next-generation sequencing and the availability of dense geneti...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Goudet J,Kay T,Weir BS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate is one of the most important drivers of local adaptation in forest tree species. Standing levels of genetic diversity and structure within and among natural populations of forest trees are determined by the interplay between climatic heterogeneity and the balance between selection and gene flow. To investigate...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mosca E,Eckert AJ,Di Pierro EA,Rocchini D,La Porta N,Belletti P,Neale DB

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forests have a high diversity of plant species; are they associated with a correspondingly rich microbial flora? We addressed this question by examining the symbiotic rhizobium bacteria that nodulate a diverse pool of forest legume species in Brazil. The 44 strains studied had been isolated from 29 legume tre...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moreira FM,Haukka K,Young JP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbreeding depression is the loss of fitness resulting from the mating of genetically related individuals. Traditionally, the study of inbreeding depression focused on genetic effects, although recent research has identified DNA methylation as also having a role in inbreeding effects. Since inbreeding depression and D...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Venney CJ,Johansson ML,Heath DD

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diet strongly influences the intestinal microbial communities through species sorting. Alternatively, these communicates may differ because of chance variation in local microbial exposures or species losses among allopatric host populations (i.e. ecological drift). We investigated how these forces shape enteric commun...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lankau EW,Hong PY,Mackie RI

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00