Breaking down barriers in morning glories.

abstract：:Discovering cryptic species in well-studied areas and taxonomic groups can have profound implications in understanding eco-evolutionary processes and in nature conservation because such groups often involve research models and act as flagship taxa for nature management. In this study, we use an array of techniques to ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hernández-Roldán JL,Dapporto L,Dincă V,Vicente JC,Hornett EA,Šíchová J,Lukhtanov VA,Talavera G,Vila R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the process of ecological speciation, reproductive isolation results from divergent natural selection and leads to a positive correlation between genetic divergence and adaptive phenotypic divergence, that is, isolation by adaptation (IBA). In natural populations, phenotypic differentiation is often autocorrela...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Seeholzer GF,Brumfield RT

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed and pollen dispersal shape patterns of gene flow and genetic diversity in plants. Pollen is generally thought to travel longer distances than seeds, but seeds determine the ultimate location of gametes. Resolving how interactions between these two dispersal processes shape microevolutionary processes is a long-st...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Browne L,Ottewell K,Sork VL,Karubian J

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Many ectothermic species are currently expanding their distributions polewards due to anthropogenic global warming. Molecular genetic mechanisms facilitating range expansion under these conditions are largely unknown, but understanding these could help mitigate expanding pests and disease vectors, or help explain why ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lancaster LT,Dudaniec RY,Chauhan P,Wellenreuther M,Svensson EI,Hansson B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male-killing bacteria are generally thought to attain low to intermediate prevalence in natural populations, with only mild effects on the host population sex ratio. This view was recently challenged by reports of extremely high infection frequencies in three butterfly species, raising the prospect that male killers, ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Charlat S,Hornett EA,Dyson EA,Ho PP,Loc NT,Schilthuizen M,Davies N,Roderick GK,Hurst GD

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the primary challenges of evolutionary research is to identify ecological factors that favour reproductive isolation. Therefore, studying partially isolated taxa has the potential to provide novel insight into the mechanisms of evolutionary divergence. Our study utilizes an adaptive colour polymorphism in the a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Whitney JL,Bowen BW,Karl SA

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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 analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences has for a long time been the most extensively used genetic tool for phylogenetic, phylogeographic and population genetic studies. Since this approach only considers female lineages, it tends to give a biased picture of the population history. The use of protein polymorphisms...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sundqvist AK,Ellegren H,Olivier M,Vilà C

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on genetic structure can be used to complement direct inferences on social systems and behaviour. We studied the genetic structure of the solitary grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus), a small, nocturnal primate endemic to western Madagascar, with the aim of getting further insight on its breeding structu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Fredsted T,Pertoldi C,Schierup MH,Kappeler PM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classification, phylogeography and the testing of evolutionary hypotheses rely on correct estimation of species phylogeny. Early molecular phylogenies often relied on mtDNA alone, which acts as a single linkage group with one history. Over the last decade, the use of multiple nuclear sequences has often revealed confl...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wallis GP,Cameron-Christie SR,Kennedy HL,Palmer G,Sanders TR,Winter DJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In polygyne ants (multiple queens per colony) factors that affect the distribution and survival of queens may play a key role in shaping the population-wide mating system and colony kin structure. The aim of this paper was to study the breeding system in two populations of different age in the facultatively polygyne a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hannonen M,Helanterä H,Sundström L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many sharks begin their life confined in nursery habitats, it is unknown how rapidly they disperse away from their natal area once they leave the nursery. We examine this issue in immature lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) from the time they leave the nursery (approximately age 3) at a subtropical island ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chapman DD,Babcock EA,Gruber SH,Dibattista JD,Franks BR,Kessel SA,Guttridge T,Pikitch EK,Feldheim KA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fire is a complex event that maintains many ecological systems. The Florida Sand Skink (Plestiodon reynoldsi) is precinctive to Florida Scrub, a habitat that is maintained by infrequent fire. We characterize the effect of fire on genetic diversity and genetic differentiation at eight microsatellite loci in the Florida...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Schrey AW,Fox AM,Mushinsky HR,McCoy ED

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of gene flow and population size fluctuations in shaping genetic variation during adaptive radiation, at both the genome-wide and gene-specific levels, is very poorly understood. To examine how historical population size and gene flow patterns within and between loci have influenced lineage divergence in th...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lawton-Rauh A,Robichaux RH,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia are maternally transmitted bacteria that alter their arthropod hosts' reproduction in various ways, including parthenogenesis induction (PI). Wolbachia-induced parthenogenesis can have drastic effects on the genetic structure of its host because it potentially reduces populations to clones without genetic ex...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pannebakker BA,Zwaan BJ,Beukeboom LW,Van Alphen JJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diversifying selection on metabolic pathways can reduce intraspecific gene flow and promote population divergence. An opportunity to explore this arises from mitonuclear discordance observed in an Australian bird Eopsaltria australis. Across >1500 km, nuclear differentiation is low and latitudinally structured by isol...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Morales HE,Pavlova A,Joseph L,Sunnucks P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both models and case studies suggest that chromosomal inversions can facilitate adaptation and speciation in the presence of gene flow by suppressing recombination between locally adapted alleles. Until recently, however, it has been laborious and time-consuming to identify and genotype inversions in natural populatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Huang K,Andrew RL,Owens GL,Ostevik KL,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We define a genetic similarity rule that predicts how genetic variation in a dominant plant affects the structure of an arthropod community. This rule applies to hybridizing cottonwood species where plant genetic variation determines plant-animal interactions and structures a dependent community of leaf-modifying arth...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bangert RK,Turek RJ,Rehill B,Wimp GM,Schweitzer JA,Allan GJ,Bailey JK,Martinsen GD,Keim P,Lindroth RL,Whitham TG

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes have evolved ways of interference competition to gain advantage over their ecological competitors. The use of secreted killer toxins by yeast cells through acquiring double-stranded RNA viruses is one such prominent example. Although the killer behaviour has been well studied in laboratory yeast strains, our ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chang SL,Leu JY,Chang TH

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The savannah biome of sub-Saharan Africa harbours the highest diversity of ungulates (hoofed mammals) on Earth. In this review, we compile population genetic data from 19 codistributed ungulate taxa of the savannah biome and find striking concordance in the phylogeographic structuring of species. Data from across taxa...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lorenzen ED,Heller R,Siegismund HR

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The moss Ceratodon purpureus has long been used as a model system in plant development and physiology. However, the molecular population genetics of the species remains virtually unexplored. In this study, we used population genetic analyses of DNA sequence data from three unlinked loci (atpB-rbcL spacer, adk, and phy...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McDaniel SF,Shaw AJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how immune genetic variation is shaped by selective and neutral processes in wild populations is of prime importance in both evolutionary biology and epidemiology. The European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) has considerably expanded its distribution range these last decades, notably by colonizing agricu...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Quéméré E,Galan M,Cosson JF,Klein F,Aulagnier S,Gilot-Fromont E,Merlet J,Bonhomme M,Hewison AJ,Charbonnel N

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies show that soil eukaryotic diversity is immense and dominated by micro-organisms. However, it is unclear to what extent the processes that shape the distribution of diversity in plants and animals also apply to micro-organisms. Major diversification events in multicellular organisms have often been attri...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Singer D,Mitchell EAD,Payne RJ,Blandenier Q,Duckert C,Fernández LD,Fournier B,Hernández CE,Granath G,Rydin H,Bragazza L,Koronatova NG,Goia I,Harris LI,Kajukało K,Kosakyan A,Lamentowicz M,Kosykh NP,Vellak K,Lara E

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population concept is central in evolutionary and conservation biology, but identifying the boundaries of natural populations is often challenging. Here, we present a new approach for assessing spatial genetic structure without the a priori assumptions on the locations of populations made by adopting an individual...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Manel S,Berthoud F,Bellemain E,Gaudeul M,Luikart G,Swenson JE,Waits LP,Taberlet P,Intrabiodiv Consortium.

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probably half of all animal species exhibit a parasitic lifestyle and numerous parasites have recently expanded their distribution and host ranges due to anthropogenic activities. Here, we report on the population genetic structure of the invasive nematode Anguillicola crassus, a parasite in freshwater eels, which rec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wielgoss S,Taraschewski H,Meyer A,Wirth T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomics and bioinformatics have great potential to help address numerous topics in ecology and evolution. Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) can bridge genomics and molecular ecology because they can provide a means of accessing the gene space of almost any organism. We review how ESTs have been used in molecular ecology...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bouck A,Vision T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic plants expressing resistance to herbivorous insects may represent a safe and sustainable pest control alternative if they do not interfere with the natural enemies of target pests. Here we examined interactions between oryzacystatin I (OCI), a proteinase inhibitor from rice genetically engineered into potat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bouchard E,Michaud D,Cloutier C

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate patterns of polyandry in the sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), 20 pregnant females were sampled from the western North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Five species-specific microsatellite markers were used to genotype each shark and its litter. Of 20 litters, 17 (85%) were shown to have multiple sires...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Portnoy DS,Piercy AN,Musick JA,Burgess GH,Graves JE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00