Relationship between aquifer biofilms and unattached microbial indicators of urban groundwater contamination.

abstract：:The black surfperch Embiotoca jacksoni and the striped surfperch E. lateralis (Embiotocidae, Perciformes) are livebearing temperate reef fishes that live sympatrically over a large portion of their distribution range, where they exhibit strong ecological competition. In order to assess whether mating strategies reflec...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Reisser CM,Beldade R,Bernardi G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palaeoclimatic events and biogeographical processes since the mid-Tertiary are believed to have strongly influenced the evolution and distribution of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of southeastern Australia. We examined the phylogeography of the temperate-adapted members of the Egernia whitii species group, a group ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chapple DG,Keogh JS,Hutchinson MN

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing rate of biological invasions resulting from human transport or human-mediated changes to the environment has had devastating ecological and public health consequences. The kissing bug, Triatoma infestans, has dispersed through the Peruvian city of Arequipa. The biological invasion of this insect has res...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Foley EA,Khatchikian CE,Hwang J,Ancca-Juárez J,Borrini-Mayori K,Quıspe-Machaca VR,Levy MZ,Brisson D,Chagas Disease Working Group in Arequipa.

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widely distributed taxa provide an opportunity to compare biogeographic responses to climatic fluctuations on multiple continents and to investigate speciation. We conducted the most geographically and genomically comprehensive study to date of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the world's most widely distributed wild terr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Statham MJ,Murdoch J,Janecka J,Aubry KB,Edwards CJ,Soulsbury CD,Berry O,Wang Z,Harrison D,Pearch M,Tomsett L,Chupasko J,Sacks BN

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-pathogen interactions are of particular interest in studies of the interplay between population dynamics and natural selection. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes of demographically fluctuating species are highly suitable markers for such studies, because they are involved in initiating the immune r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bryja J,Charbonnel N,Berthier K,Galan M,Cosson JF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on contact zones has paid relatively little attention to host-parasite interactions, although these situations have important but different implications depending on whether one considers the host or the parasite's perspective. We investigated both the role of a host contact zone in parasite expansion and whe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Reullier J,Pérez-Tris J,Bensch S,Secondi J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years microsatellites have become one of the most popular molecular markers used with applications in many different fields. High polymorphism and the relative ease of scoring represent the two major features that make microsatellites of large interest for many genetic studies. The major drawback of mi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zane L,Bargelloni L,Patarnello T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial haplotype diversity in 27 populations of brown trout, Salmo trutta L., in Austria was investigated by sequencing the 5' end of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region. Although all populations are within the Danube drainage, 44% of all individuals carried Atlantic basin haplotypes. It is argued that...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Weiss S,Schlötterer C,Waidbacher H,Jungwirth M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the phylogeographic framework, we assessed the DNA sequence variation at the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene across the distribution range of the barbel Barbus barbus, a widely distributed European cyprinid. Reciprocal monophyly of non-Mediterranean European and Balkan/Anatolian populations is taken as evidence ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kotlík P,Berrebi P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of mitochondrial (mt)DNA size polymorphism in the form of variable number tandem repeats (mtVNTRs) has become an increasingly popular methodology for addressing questions in molecular ecology. When detected by PCR, mtVNTR analysis can provide a sensitive, rapid, and cost-effective measure of genetic variabili...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lunt DH,Whipple LE,Hyman BC

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:The landscape of the Pilbara region of Western Australia has been relatively unchanged for 100 million years. The ancient river systems of this region might be expected to be sources of isolation and divergence for aquatic species. Hence, the occurrence of widespread groundwater taxa in this landscape offers the oppor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Finston TL,Johnson MS,Humphreys WF,Eberhard SM,Halse SA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Quaternary cold periods in Europe are thought to have heavily influenced the amount and distribution of intraspecific genetic variation in both animals and plants. The phylogeographies of 10 taxa, including mammals (Ursus arctos, Sorex spp., Crocidura suaveolens, Arvicola spp.), amphibians (Triturus spp.), arthrop...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Taberlet P,Fumagalli L,Wust-Saucy AG,Cosson JF

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinkajou social groups generally consist of one adult female, two males, one subadult and one juvenile. Based on analysis of variation in 11 microsatellite loci, we assess the degree of kinship within and between four social groups totaling 25 kinkajous. We use exclusion and likelihood analyses to assign parents for s...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Kays RW,Gittleman JL,Wayne RK

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Mounting evidence suggests that average telomere length reflects previous stress and predicts subsequent survival across vertebrate species. In humans, leucocyte telomere length (LTL) is consistently shorter during adulthood in males than in females, although the causes of this sex difference and its generality to oth...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Watson RL,Bird EJ,Underwood S,Wilbourn RV,Fairlie J,Watt K,Salvo-Chirnside E,Pilkington JG,Pemberton JM,McNeilly TN,Froy H,Nussey DH

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replicated ecological gradients are prime systems to study processes of molecular evolution underlying ecological divergence. Here, we investigated the repeated adaptation of the neotropical fish Poecilia mexicana to habitats containing toxic hydrogen sulphide (H2 S) and compared two population pairs of sulphide-adapt...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pfenninger M,Patel S,Arias-Rodriguez L,Feldmeyer B,Riesch R,Plath M

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Populations of obligately estuarine taxa are potentially small and isolated and may lack genetic variation and display regional differentiation as a result of drift and inbreeding. Hybridization with a wide-ranging marine congener should introduce genetic variation and reduce the effects of inbreeding depression and g...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Roberts DG,Gray CA,West RJ,Ayre DJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogeographical history of the rare marsh orchid Anacamptis palustris (Orchidaceae) was reconstructed using highly polymorphic chloroplast minisatellite and microsatellite loci. Allelic variation at chloroplast microsatellite loci was due to length variation in poly(A/T) repeats and was informative on a regional...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cozzolino S,Cafasso D,Pellegrino G,Musacchio A,Widmer A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Monotropoideae (Ericaceae) are non-photosynthetic angiosperms that obtain fixed carbon from basidiomycete ectomycorrhizal fungi. In previous work, we showed that each plant species is associated with a single genus or a set of closely related genera of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Here we show that the level of specific...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bidartondo MI,Bruns TD

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formal testing of mating system theories with empirical data is important for evaluating the relative importance of different processes in shaping mating systems in wild populations. Here, we present a generally applicable probability modelling framework to test the role of local mate availability in determining a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Blyton MD,Banks SC,Peakall R,Lindenmayer DB

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic differentiation in thermal adaptation can result from a trade-off between the performance of organisms across different temperatures or from the accumulation of deleterious mutations. In this experiment, we assayed thermal sensitivity of 138 genetically distinct Mycosphaerella graminicola isolates sampled from...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zhan J,McDonald BA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological control requires specific tools for the accurate detection and identification of natural enemies, and to detect unusual variations in their density, which may follow changes in agricultural practices. Here we have developed specific molecular markers to detect Lydella thompsoni (Herting) and Pseudoperichaet...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Agustí N,Bourguet D,Spataro T,Delos M,Eychenne N,Folcher L,Arditi R

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：: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：:Population decline in the federally endangered June sucker (Chasmistes liorus), a lakesucker unique to Utah Lake, Utah, has been attributed in part to hybridization with the more widespread Utah sucker (Catostomus ardens). As a group, suckers in Utah Lake exhibit considerable external morphological variation. Meristic...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Cole DD,Mock KE,Cardall BL,Crowl TA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific hybridization is an important process through which abrupt speciation can occur. In recent years, genetic changes associated with hybrid speciation have been identified through a variety of techniques, including AFLP/SSR mapping, GISH/FISH and cDNA-AFLP differential display. However, progress in using mi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hegarty MJ,Jones JM,Wilson ID,Barker GL,Coghill JA,Sanchez-Baracaldo P,Liu G,Buggs RJ,Abbott RJ,Edwards KJ,Hiscock SJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the phylogenetic relationships among the three stone pine species, Pinus cembra, P. sibirica, and P. pumila, using chloroplast microsatellites and mitochondrial nad1 intron 2 sequences. The three chloroplast microsatellite loci combined into a total of 18 haplotypes. Fourteen haplotypes were detected in 15 ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gugerli F,Senn J,Anzidei M,Madaghiele A,Büchler U,Sperisen C,Vendramin GG

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a broad survey of Drosophila melanogaster population samples, levels of abdominal pigmentation were found to be highly variable and geographically differentiated. A strong positive correlation was found between dark pigmentation and high altitude, suggesting adaptation to specific environments. DNA sequence polymor...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pool JE,Aquadro CF

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00