Unravelling the invasion history of the Asian tiger mosquito in Europe.

abstract：:Selection on coevolving sperm- and egg-recognition molecules is a potent engine of population divergence leading to reproductive isolation and speciation. The study of receptor-ligand pairs can reveal co-evolution of male- and female-expressed genes or differences between their evolution in response to selective facto...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hart MW

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Understanding ecological divergence of morphologically similar but genetically distinct species - previously considered as a single morphospecies - is of key importance in evolutionary ecology and conservation biology. Despite their morphological similarity, cryptic species may have evolved distinct adaptations. If su...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Leys M,Keller I,Robinson CT,Räsänen K

更新日期：2017-03-01 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 mitochondrial pseudo-control region was analysed in five species of Aquila eagles. Indels caused great length differences in the nonrepetitive part of the region, whereas tandem repeat units were highly conserved among the genus. In a reconstructed phylogenetic tree, the clade formed by A. clanga and A. pomarina s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Väli U

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Improving resistance durability involves to be able to predict the adaptation speed of pathogen populations. Identifying the genetic bases of pathogen adaptation to plant resistances is a useful step to better understand and anticipate this phenomenon. Globodera pallida is a major pest of potato crop for which a resis...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Eoche-Bosy D,Gautier M,Esquibet M,Legeai F,Bretaudeau A,Bouchez O,Fournet S,Grenier E,Montarry J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Baltic Sea provides a unique model system for studying genetic effects of postglacial colonization and ecological differentiation, because all marine organisms must have immigrated after the opening of the Danish Straits 8000 years ago and responded to the development of the steep Skagerrak-Baltic salinity gradien...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gabrielsen TM,Brochmann C,Rueness J

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Habitat fragmentation is a major force affecting demography and genetic structure of wild populations, especially in agricultural landscapes. The land snail Cepaea nemoralis (L.) was selected to investigate the impact of habitat fragmentation on the spatial genetic structure of an organism with limited dispersal abili...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schweiger O,Frenzel M,Durka W

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-tailed bats Mystacina tuberculata were widespread throughout the forest that dominated prehuman New Zealand, but extensive deforestation has restricted them to scattered populations in forest fragments. In a previous study, the species' intraspecific phylogeny was investigated using multiple mitochondrial gene s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lloyd BD

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluating the factors that drive patterns of population differentiation in plants is critical for understanding several biological processes such as local adaptation and incipient speciation. Previous studies have given conflicting results regarding the significance of pollination mode, seed dispersal mode, mating sy...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gamba D,Muchhala N

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertically transmitted symbionts suffer a severe reduction in numbers when they pass through host generations, resulting in genetic homogeneity or even clonality of their populations. Wolbachia endosymbionts that induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in their hosts depart from this rule, because cytoplasmic incompatibili...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mouton L,Henri H,Bouletreau M,Vavre F

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a study of the genetic diversity and structure of a tropical tree in an insular system. Santalum austrocaledonicum is endemic to the archipelago of New Caledonia and is exploited for oil extraction from heartwood. A total of 431 individuals over 17 populations were analysed for eight polymorphic microsatell...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bottin L,Verhaegen D,Tassin J,Olivieri I,Vaillant A,Bouvet JM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Epipactis contains a problematical complex of autogamous taxa among which species limits are difficult to define. Different authors have treated these plants in different ways, some recognizing the different taxa as distinct species, others considering them as minor intraspecific variants. These contrasting ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Squirrell J,Hollingsworth PM,Bateman RM,Tebbitt MC,Hollingsworth ML

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Firmly rooted as we are in the genomic era, it can seem incredible that as recently as 1974, Lewontin declared, 'we know virtually nothing about the genetic changes that occur in species formation'. To the contrary, we now know the genetic architecture of phenotypic differences and reproductive isolation between speci...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sweigart A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of discovering species is a fundamental responsibility of systematics. Recently, there has been a growing interest in coalescent-based methods of species delimitation aimed at objectively identifying species early in the divergence process. However, few empirical studies have compared these new methods wit...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McKay BD,Mays HL Jr,Wu Y,Li H,Yao CT,Nishiumi I,Zou F

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:Diversification and speciation of terrestrial organisms are anticipated in oceanic islands such as Macaronesia, a group of Atlantic islands that have remained unconnected to continental landmasses. Hitherto, the diversification of marine organisms in oceanic islands, especially those with low vagility, has received li...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vieira PE,Desiderato A,Holdich DM,Soares P,Creer S,Carvalho GR,Costa FO,Queiroga H

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies that reveal a correlation between heterozygosity and fitness in natural populations have rekindled interest in whether balancing selection is widespread or an evolutionary oddity. We therefore quantified heterozygote advantage at 12 microsatellite markers in both inbred and outbred crosses of Drosophila...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ferreira AG,Amos W

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the role of interspecific interactions in shaping ecological communities is one of the central goals in community ecology. In fungal communities, measuring interspecific interactions directly is challenging because these communities are composed of large numbers of species, many of which are unculturable...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Abrego N,Roslin T,Huotari T,Tack AJM,Lindahl BD,Tikhonov G,Somervuo P,Schmidt NM,Ovaskainen O

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of eusociality in haplo-diploid organisms such as Hymenoptera has been mostly explained by kin selection. However, several studies have uncovered decreased relatedness values within colonies, resulting primarily from multiple queen matings (polyandry) and/or from the presence of more than one functional que...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Fournier D,Aron S,Milinkovitch MC

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are about to become one of the most popular genetic markers for genetic model organisms. To test the usefulness of SNPs for estimating genetic diversity, we surveyed three genomic regions in two Drosophila melanogaster populations, one from Africa and one European, collected in A...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schlötterer C,Harr B

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red carotenoid colours in birds are widely assumed to be sexually selected quality indicators, but this rests on a very incomplete understanding of genetic mechanisms and honesty-mediating costs. Recent progress was made by the implication of the gene CYP2J19 as an avian carotenoid ketolase, catalysing the synthesis o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Twyman H,Prager M,Mundy NI,Andersson S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2005, advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized biological science. The analysis of environmental DNA through the use of specific gene markers such as species-specific DNA barcodes has been a key application of next-generation sequencing technologies in ecological and environmental ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Shokralla S,Spall JL,Gibson JF,Hajibabaei M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic assignment methods provide an appealing approach for characterizing dispersal patterns on ecological time scales, but require sufficient genetic differentiation to accurately identify migrants and a large enough sample size of migrants to, for example, compare dispersal between sexes or age classes. We demonst...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hall LA,Palsbøll PJ,Beissinger SR,Harvey JT,Bérubé M,Raphael MG,Nelson SK,Golightly RT,McFarlane-Tranquilla L,Newman SH,Peery MZ

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Genetic divergence of populations in the presence of gene flow is a central theme in speciation research. Theory predicts that divergence can happen with full range overlap - in sympatry - driven by ecological factors, but there are few empirical examples of how ecologically divergent selection can overcome gene flow ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kaiser TS,von Haeseler A,Tessmar-Raible K,Heckel DG

更新日期：2021-01-07 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：:Chihuahua spruce (Picea chihuahuana Martínez) is a montane subtropical conifer endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern México. Range-wide variation was investigated using maternally inherited mitochondrial (mtDNA) and paternally inherited chloroplast (cpDNA) DNA markers. Among the 16 mtDNA regions analy...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jaramillo-Correa JP,Beaulieu J,Ledig FT,Bousquet J

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of species diversity to emergent, ecological properties of communities is increasingly appreciated, but the importance of within-species genetic diversity for analogous emergent properties of populations is only just becoming apparent. Here, the properties and effects of genetic variation on predation r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Koh KS,Matz C,Tan CH,LE HL,Rice SA,Marshall DJ,Steinberg PD,Kjelleberg S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00