High MHC gene copy number maintains diversity despite homozygosity in a Critically Endangered single-island endemic bird, but no evidence of MHC-based mate choice.

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：:Two species of horned lizards are sympatric along the periphery of the Salton Trough. Phrynosoma mcallii, endemic to the trough, is of conservation concern because its limited habitat has been fragmented by human activities. A more common and widespread species, Phrynosoma platyrhinos, occurs around the periphery of t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mulcahy DG,Spaulding AW,Mendelson JR 3rd,Brodie ED Jr

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in understanding patterns of seasonal migratory connectivity between breeding and wintering sites, both because differences in migratory behaviour can be associated with population differentiation and because knowledge of migratory connectivity is essential for understanding the ecology, evol...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Irwin DE,Irwin JH,Smith TB

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossing over is well known to have profound effects on patterns of genetic diversity and genome evolution. Far less direct attention has been paid to another distinct outcome of meiotic recombination: noncrossover gene conversion (NCGC). Crossing over and NCGC both shuffle combinations of alleles, and this degradatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Korunes KL,Noor MA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The declining health of coral reefs worldwide is likely to intensify in response to continued anthropogenic disturbance from coastal development, pollution, and climate change. In response to these stresses, reef-building corals may exhibit bleaching, which marks the breakdown in symbiosis between coral and zooxanthel...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： DeSalvo MK,Voolstra CR,Sunagawa S,Schwarz JA,Stillman JH,Coffroth MA,Szmant AM,Medina M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular stress response has long been the primary model for studying the molecular basis of thermal adaptation, yet the link between gene expression, RNA metabolism and physiological responses to thermal stress remains largely unexplored. We address this by comparing the transcriptional and physiological response...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Telonis-Scott M,Clemson AS,Johnson TK,Sgrò CM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of coral reefs is due to obligate mutualistic symbioses involving invertebrates and photosynthetic dinoflagellate symbionts belonging to the genus Symbiodinium. In the Caribbean, the vast majority of octocorals and other invertebrate hosts associate with Symbiodinium clade B, and more selectively, with a s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Santos SR,Shearer TL,Hannes AR,Coffroth MA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation by adaptation increases divergence at neutral loci when natural selection against immigrants reduces the rate of gene flow between different habitats. This can occur early in the process of adaptive divergence and is a key feature of ecological speciation. Despite the ability of isolation by distance (IBD) a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Andrew RL,Ostevik KL,Ebert DP,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colour vision varies within the family Atelidae (Primates, Platyrrhini), which consists of four genera with the following cladistic relationship: {Alouatta[Ateles (Lagothrix and Brachyteles)]}. Spider monkeys (Ateles) and woolly monkeys (Lagothrix) are characteristic of platyrrhine monkeys in possessing a colour visio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Talebi MG,Pope TR,Vogel ER,Neitz M,Dominy NJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a comparative phylogeographical approach to investigate the origins of the disjunct wet forest biota of the Golfo Dulce region along the Pacific slope of Costa Rica. This region is isolated by Pacific dry forests north and south and isolated from Caribbean wet forests by mountains. We studied three sympatric l...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Crawford AJ,Bermingham E,Carolina PS

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-four samples from 46 salmon populations totalling 2369 specimens were used for polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) analysis of the mitochondrial ND1 region. The final analyses included 3095 specimens from 60 populations in Northern Europe. A subsample was analysed by RFL...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Nilsson J,Gross R,Asplund T,Dove O,Jansson H,Kelloniemi J,Kohlmann K,Löytynoja A,Nielsen EE,Paaver T,Primmer CR,Titov S,Vasemägi A,Veselov A,Ost T,Lumme J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatedness increases the likelihood of cooperation within colonies of social insects. Polygyny, the coexistence of numerous reproductive females (queens) in a colony, is common in mature colonies of the termite Macrotermes michaelseni. In this species, polygyny results from pleometrosis and from several female alates...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hacker M,Kaib M,Bagine RK,Epplen JT,Brandl R

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:While it has been proposed in several taxa that the mitochondrial genome is associated with adaptive evolution to different climatic conditions, making links between mitochondrial haplotypes and organismal phenotypes remains a challenge. Mitonuclear discordance occurs in the small brown planthopper (SBPH), Laodelphax ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sun JT,Duan XZ,Hoffmann AA,Liu Y,Garvin MR,Chen L,Hu G,Zhou JC,Huang HJ,Xue XF,Hong XY

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Army ants have long been suspected to represent an independent origin of multiple queen-mating in the social Hymenoptera. Using microsatellite markers, we show that queens of the African army ant Dorylus (Anomma) molestus have the highest absolute (17.3) and effective (17.5) queen-mating frequencies reported so far fo...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kronauer DJ,Schoning C,Pedersen JS,Boomsma JJ,Gadau J

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Elucidating the genetic basis of adaptive population divergence is a goal of central importance in evolutionary biology. In principle, it should be possible to identify chromosomal regions involved in adaptive divergence by screening genome-wide patterns of DNA polymorphism to detect the locus-specific signature of po...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Storz JF

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonistic co-evolution between hosts and parasites can lead to local adaptation (LA) such that parasite fitness is greatest in sympatric hosts (or vice versa). The magnitude of LA typically increases with geographical distance, which is assumed to be because genetic (and hence phenotypic) distance increases with ge...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Scanlan PD,Hall AR,Buckling A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between parasites and their hosts are intimate, dynamic and complex; the evolution of one is inevitably linked to the other. Despite multiple origins of parasitism in the Cnidaria, only parasites belonging to the Myxozoa are characterized by a complex life cycle, alternating between fish and inverteb...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Holzer AS,Bartošová-Sojková P,Born-Torrijos A,Lövy A,Hartigan A,Fiala I

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic habitat fragmentation of species that live in naturally patchy metapopulations such as mountaintops or sky islands experiences two levels of patchiness. Effects of such multilevel patchiness on species have rarely been examined. Metapopulation theory suggests that patchy habitats could have varied impact...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Robin VV,Gupta P,Thatte P,Ramakrishnan U

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal is a key factor in invasion and in the persistence and evolution of species. Despite the importance of estimates of dispersal distance, dispersal measurement remains a real methodological challenge. In this study, we characterized dispersal by exploiting a specific case of biological invasion, in which multi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bermond G,Blin A,Vercken E,Ravigné V,Rieux A,Mallez S,Morel-Journel T,Guillemaud T

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:The evolutionary origin of extant species in the Neotropics, one of the most biodiverse regions of the world, has been widely debated. One hypothesis is that neotropical species emerged primarily during the Quaternary (the last approximately 2 million years), favoured by alternating glacial/interglacial climates. An o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rull V

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) form a mutualistic symbiosis with plant roots and are found in most ecosystems. In this study the community structure of AMF in a clade of the genus Glomus was examined in undisturbed costal grassland using LSU rDNA sequences amplified from roots of Hieracium pilosella. Roots were sa...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rosendahl S,Stukenbrock EH

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chilo suppressalis (Walker) displays significant geographical differences in ecological preference that may be congruent with patterns of molecular variation. To test this, we collected and analysed 381 individuals of this species from cultivated rice at 18 localities in China during the rice-growing season of 2005-20...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Meng XF,Shi M,Chen XX

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transcription variation is known to contribute to disease susceptibility and adaptation, but we currently know very little about how contemporary natural selection shapes transcript abundance. Here, we propose a novel analytical framework to quantify the strength and form of ongoing natural selection at the trans...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ahmad F,Debes PV,Nousiainen I,Kahar S,Pukk L,Gross R,Ozerov M,Vasemägi A

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine organisms can be transported hundreds of kilometres during their pelagic larval stage, yet little is known about spatial and temporal patterns of larval dispersal. Although traditional population-genetic tools can be applied to infer movement of larvae on an evolutionary timescale, large effective populati...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pusack TJ,Christie MR,Johnson DW,Stallings CD,Hixon MA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although resolving phylogenetic relationships and establishing species limits are primary goals of systematics, these tasks remain challenging at both conceptual and analytical levels. Here, we integrated genomic and phenotypic data and employed a comprehensive suite of coalescent-based analyses to develop and evaluat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Noguerales V,Cordero PJ,Ortego J

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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