Mitochondrial variation in small brown planthoppers linked to multiple traits and probably reflecting a complex evolutionary trajectory.

abstract：:We studied population polymorphism at a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II beta gene in the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). We found that: (i) a single population of P. maniculatus has significantly higher levels of DNA and protein sequence diversity than worldwide samples from homologous genes in ot...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Richman AD,Herrera LG,Nash D

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity has been hypothesized to play a central role in the evolution of phenotypic diversity across species (West-Eberhard ). Through 'genetic assimilation', phenotypes that are initially environmentally induced within species become genetically fixed over evolutionary time. While genetic assimilation h...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sikkink KL,Snell-Rood EC

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity occurs at a variety of timescales, but little is known about the degree to which plastic responses at different timescales are associated with similar underlying molecular processes, which is critical for assessing the effects of plasticity on evolutionary trajectories. To address this issue, we ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Metzger DCH,Schulte PM

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Euglossine bees (Apidae; Euglossini) exclusively pollinate hundreds of orchid species and comprise up to 25% of bee species richness in neotropical rainforests. As one of the first studies of comparative phylogeography in a neotropical insect group, we performed a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-based analysis of 14 eugloss...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dick CW,Roubik DW,Gruber KF,Bermingham E

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors ranging from ecological opportunity to genome composition might explain why only some lineages form adaptive radiations. While being rare, particular systems can provide natural experiments within an identical ecological setting where species numbers and phenotypic divergence in two closely related lineages ar...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Xiong P,Hulsey CD,Fruciano C,Wong WY,Nater A,Kautt AF,Simakov O,Pippel M,Kuraku S,Meyer A,Franchini P

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelophylax esculentus is a hybridogenetic frog originating from matings between P. ridibundus (RR) and P. lessonae (LL). Typically, diploid hybrids (LR) live in sympatry with one of their parental species, upon which they depend for successful reproduction. In parts of their range, however, pure hybrid populations can...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Arioli M,Jakob C,Reyer HU

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Tropical rainforest trees typically occur in low population densities and rely on animals for cross-pollination. It is of conservation interest therefore to understand how rainforest fragmentation may alter the pollination and breeding structure of remnant trees. Previous studies of the Amazonian tree Dinizia excelsa ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dick CW,Etchelecu G,Austerlitz F

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:Heavy fishing and other anthropogenic influences can have profound impact on a species' resilience to harvesting. Besides the decrease in the census and effective population size, strong declines in mature adults and recruiting individuals may lead to almost irreversible genetic changes in life-history traits. Here, w...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cuveliers EL,Volckaert FA,Rijnsdorp AD,Larmuseau MH,Maes GE

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climatic conditions and landscape features often strongly affect species' local distribution patterns, dispersal, reproduction and survival and may therefore have considerable impacts on species' fine-scale spatial genetic structure (SGS). In this study, we demonstrate the efficacy of combining fine-scale SGS analyses...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Born C,Le Roux PC,Spohr C,McGeoch MA,Van Vuuren BJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, pollination syndromes (the correlated presence of many features of relevance to pollination mode, for instance pollination by a particular animal clade) are a striking feature of plant biodiversity, providing great floral phenotypic diversity (Fenster et al. ). Adaptation to a particular animal pollinator p...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cronk Q,Yang JY

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the use of single nucleotide polymorphisms for evolutionary and population genetics. We tested the efficacy of one of the available single nucleotide polymorphism techniques, single-base extension, in distinguishing four cryptic species of Microtus. Sequence data were available for these s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Belfiore NM,Hoffman FG,Baker RJ,Dewoody JA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world's second largest expanse of tropical rainforest is in Central Africa, and it harbours enormous species diversity. Population genetic studies have consistently revealed significant structure across Central African rainforest plants. In particular, previous studies have repeatedly demonstrated a north-south ge...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Helmstetter AJ,Amoussou BEN,Bethune K,Kamdem NG,Glèlè Kakaï R,Sonké B,Couvreur TLP

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection, random processes and gene flow are known to generate sex ratio variations among sexually polymorphic plant populations. In gynodioecious species, in which hermaphrodites and females coexist, the relative effect of these processes on the maintenance of sex polymorphism is still up for debate. The aim...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： De Cauwer I,Dufay M,Hornoy B,Courseaux A,Arnaud JF

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A whole-genome duplication (WGD) doubles the entire genomic content of a species and is thought to have catalysed adaptive radiation in some polyploid-origin lineages. However, little is known about general consequences of a WGD because gene duplicates (i.e., paralogs) are commonly filtered in genomic studies; such fi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Limborg MT,Larson WA,Seeb LW,Seeb JE

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthyllis montana is a submediterranean, herbaceous plant of the southern and central European mountains. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA were sequenced from multiple accessions of the species and several closely related taxa. In addition, amplified fragment length polymorphism (...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kropf M,Kadereit JW,Comes HP

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical and empirical studies have shown that species radiations are facilitated when a trait under divergent natural selection is also involved in sexual selection. It is yet unclear how quick and effective radiations are where assortative mating is unrelated to the ecological environment and primarily results fr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nolen ZJ,Yildirim B,Irisarri I,Liu S,Groot Crego C,Amby DB,Mayer F,Gilbert MTP,Pereira RJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogeography of Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) was reconstructed from the coat protein gene sequences of a selection of 173 isolates from the 14 countries of mainland Africa where the disease occurred and from the full sequences of 16 representative isolates. Genetic variation was linked to geographical distributio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Traore O,Sorho F,Pinel A,Abubakar Z,Banwo O,Maley J,Hebrard E,Winter S,Sere Y,Konate G,Fargette D

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to contribute to the debate about southern glacial refugia used by temperate species and more northern refugia used by boreal or cold-temperate species, we examined the phylogeography of a widespread snake species (Vipera berus) inhabiting Europe up to the Arctic Circle. The analysis of the mitochondrial DNA ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ursenbacher S,Carlsson M,Helfer V,Tegelström H,Fumagalli L

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the contribution of different molecular processes to evolution and development is crucial for identifying the mechanisms of adaptation. Here, we used RNA-seq data to test the importance of alternative splicing and differential gene expression in a case of parallel adaptive evolution, the replicated postg...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Jacobs A,Elmer KR

更新日期：2021-01-27 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：:Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) are the most polymorphic functional loci in mammalian populations, but little is known of Mhc variability in natural populations of nonmammalian vertebrates. To help extend such studies to birds and relatives, we present a pair of degenerate primers that amplify poly...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Edwards SV,Grahn M,Potts WK

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reef corals are especially sensitive to environmental change since their survival is dependent on a delicate balance between the coral host and its algal endosymbiont. Predicting the responses of reef ecosystems to global climate change requires a detailed understanding of the diversity of both partners in this symbio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： van Oppen MJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agroforestry ecosystems may be an important resource for conservation and sustainable use of tropical trees, but little is known of the genetic diversity they contain. Inga edulis, a widespread indigenous fruit tree in South America, is used as a model to assess the maintenance of genetic diversity in five planted vs....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hollingsworth PM,Dawson IK,Goodall-Copestake WP,Richardson JE,Weber JC,Sotelo Montes C,Pennington RT

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant mating systems are known to influence population genetic structure because pollen and seed dispersal are often spatially restricted. However, the reciprocal outcomes of population structure on the dynamics of polymorphic mating systems have received little attention. In gynodioecious sea beet (Beta vulgaris ssp....

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： DE Cauwer I,Dufay M,Cuguen J,Arnaud JF

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Microcystins (MCs) are toxic heptapeptides that are produced by filamentous cyanobacteria Planktothrix rubescens and Planktothrix agardhii via nonribosomal peptide synthesis. MCs share a common structure cyclo (-D-Alanine(1)-L-X(2)- D-erythro-beta-iso-aspartic acid(3)-L-Z(4)-Adda(5)-D-Glutamate(6)- N-methyl-dehydroala...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kurmayer R,Gumpenberger M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyptodonts were giant (some of them up to ~2400 kg), heavily armoured relatives of living armadillos, which became extinct during the Late Pleistocene/early Holocene alongside much of the South American megafauna. Although glyptodonts were an important component of Cenozoic South American faunas, their early evolutio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mitchell KJ,Scanferla A,Soibelzon E,Bonini R,Ochoa J,Cooper A

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00