Mitochondrial DNA variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs): utility and problems in molecular ecology.

abstract：:Amphibians are a globally distributed and diverse lineage, but much of our current understanding of their population genetic structure comes from studies in mesic temperate habitats. We characterize the population genetic structure of two sympatric explosive breeding amphibians in the southwestern deserts of the Unite...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Chan LM,Zamudio KR

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies of the interaction between host and symbiont in a maturing symbiotic organ have presented a challenge for most animal-bacterial associations. Advances in the rearing of the host squid Euprymna scolopes have enabled us to explore the relationship between a defect in symbiont light production and la...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Koch EJ,Miyashiro T,McFall-Ngai MJ,Ruby EG

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speciation in brood-parasitic indigobirds (genus Vidua) is a consequence of behavioural imprinting in both males and females. Mimicry of host song by males and host fidelity in female egg laying result in reproductive isolation of indigobirds associated with a given host species. Colonization of new hosts and subseque...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sefc KM,Payne RB,Sorenson MD

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate is one of the most important drivers of local adaptation in forest tree species. Standing levels of genetic diversity and structure within and among natural populations of forest trees are determined by the interplay between climatic heterogeneity and the balance between selection and gene flow. To investigate...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Mosca E,Eckert AJ,Di Pierro EA,Rocchini D,La Porta N,Belletti P,Neale DB

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:When studying selection during adaptation to novel environments, researchers have often paid little attention to an organism's earliest developmental stages. Despite this lack of attention, early life history traits may be under strong selection during colonization, as the expression of adaptive phenotypes at later po...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Moyers BT,Kane NC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcontinental migration is a fascinating example of how animals can respond to climatic oscillation. Yet, quantitative data on fitness components are scarce, and the resulting population genetic consequences are poorly understood. Migratory divides, hybrid zones with a transition in migratory behaviour, provide a n...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： von Rönn JA,Shafer AB,Wolf JB

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation is of key importance for a species' evolutionary potential, and its estimation is a major component of conservation studies. New DNA sequencing technologies have enabled the analysis of large portions of the genome in nonmodel species, promising highly accurate estimates of such population genetic pa...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Lozier JD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that control the assembly and composition of endophyte communities across plant hosts remains poorly understood. This is especially true for endophyte communities inhabiting inner tree bark, one of the least studied components of the plant microbiome. Here, we test the hypothesis that bark of different tre...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Pellitier PT,Zak DR,Salley SO

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental and/or life history factors affecting genetic exchange in marine species with potential for high dispersal are of great interest, not only from an evolutionary standpoint but also with regard to effective management. Previous genetic studies have demonstrated substantial differentiation among populat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Shaw PW,Arkhipkin AI,Al-Khairulla H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation to new environments often occurs in the face of gene flow. Under these conditions, gene flow and recombination can impede adaptation by breaking down linkage disequilibrium between locally adapted alleles. Theory predicts that this decay can be halted or slowed if adaptive alleles are tightly linked in regi...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Samuk K,Owens GL,Delmore KE,Miller SE,Rennison DJ,Schluter D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In terrestrial ecosystems, plant species and diverse root-associated fungi form complex networks of host-symbiont associations. Recent studies have revealed that structures of those below-ground plant-fungus networks differ between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal symbioses. Nonetheless, we still remain igno...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Toju H,Tanabe AS,Ishii HS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A half century ago the State of Hawaii began a remarkable, if unintentional, experiment on the population genetics of introduced species, by releasing 2431 Bluestriped Snappers (Lutjanus kasmira) from the Marquesas Islands in 1958 and 728 conspecifics from the Society Islands in 1961. By 1992 L. kasmira had spread acr...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gaither MR,Bowen BW,Toonen RJ,Planes S,Messmer V,Earle J,Ross Robertson D

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to characterize further the patterns of selection and adaptive evolution at the methuselah locus in Drosophila species, we extended an analysis of geographical variation to include single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in adjacent genes on either side of the mth locus, and examined the molecular variatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Duvernell DD,Schmidt PS,Eanes WF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Neolithic transition has been widely debated particularly regarding the extent to which this revolution implied a demographic expansion from the Near East. We attempted to shed some light on this process in northeastern Iberia by combining ancient DNA (aDNA) data from Early Neolithic settlers and published DNA dat...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gamba C,Fernández E,Tirado M,Deguilloux MF,Pemonge MH,Utrilla P,Edo M,Molist M,Rasteiro R,Chikhi L,Arroyo-Pardo E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to difficulties in identifying important within-species biodiversity for effective species management and conservation, the use of multiple complementary sources of information is required to identify and assess the designation of conservation units based on the degree of variation among populations within a speci...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Vandersteen Tymchuk W,O'Reilly P,Bittman J,Macdonald D,Schulte P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How males gain access to mates and the potential for female choice will determine whether polygyny can operate at several levels, from within litters and groups to the wider population. Female lesser flat-headed bats (Tylonycteris pachypus) form maternity groups in bamboo stems. Unusually for bats, they are multiparou...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hua P,Zhang L,Zhu G,Jones G,Zhang S,Rossiter SJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a long tradition of artificially stocking lakes and rivers with fish in the hope to increase the quality and amount of fish that can be harvested. The animals used for stocking often originate in distant hatcheries or hatcheries that breed fish from remote regions. This stocking practice could have effects on...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Englbrecht CC,Schliewen U,Tautz D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how the environment shapes genetic variation provides critical insight about the evolution of local adaptation in natural populations. At multiple spatial scales and multiple geographic contexts within a single species, such information could address a number of fundamental questions about the scale of l...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gugger PF,Fitz-Gibbon ST,Albarrán-Lara A,Wright JW,Sork VL

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotype phylogeny for Amazonian Anolis lizards, including geographical sampling within four species distributed across the Amazon basin (A. fuscoauratus, A. nitens, A. ortonii and A. punctatus). Approximately 1500 bp of mtDNA encoding ND2, COI and four transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Glor RE,Vitt LJ,Larson A

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of hybridization and subsequent introgression has been demonstrated in an increasing number of species. Recently, Fontaine et al. (Science, 347, 2015, 1258524) conducted a phylogenomic analysis of six members of the Anopheles gambiae species complex. Their analysis revealed a reticulate evolutionary history a...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wen D,Yu Y,Hahn MW,Nakhleh L

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular phylogeographic studies have revealed the genetic patterns and glacial-interglacial history of many plant and animal species. To infer the Quaternary history of alpine plants in the Japanese archipelago, which is poorly known, we investigated 203 individuals of Potentilla matsumurae and its varieties from 22...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ikeda H,Senni K,Fujii N,Setoguchi H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attine ants are a monophyletic lineage that switched to fungus farming ca. 55-60 MYA. They have become a model for the study of complex symbioses after additional fungal and bacterial symbionts were discovered, but their abdominal endosymbiotic bacteria remain largely unknown. Here, we present a comparative microb...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sapountzis P,Nash DR,Schiøtt M,Boomsma JJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defence against pathogenic infection can take two forms: resistance and tolerance. Resistance is the ability of the host to limit a pathogen burden, whereas tolerance is the ability to limit the negative consequences of infection at a given level of infection intensity. Evolutionarily, a tolerance strategy that is ind...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Howick VM,Lazzaro BP

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiologists often evaluate microbial community dynamics by formulating functional hypotheses based on ecological processes. Indeed, many of the methods and terms currently used to describe animal microbiomes derive from ecology and evolutionary biology. As our understanding of the composition and functional dynami...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： McKenney EA,Koelle K,Dunn RR,Yoder AD

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementation of the coalescent model in a Bayesian framework is an emerging strength in genetically based species delimitation studies. By providing an objective measure of species diagnosis, these methods represent a quantitative enhancement to the analysis of multilocus data, and complement more traditional method...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hotaling S,Foley ME,Lawrence NM,Bocanegra J,Blanco MB,Rasoloarison R,Kappeler PM,Barrett MA,Yoder AD,Weisrock DW

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence and restriction site analyses of the paternally inherited chloroplast rbcL gene and maternally inherited mitochondrial nad1 fragments from the same set of populations and individuals were used to investigate cytoplasmic composition and population establishment of Pinus densata, a diploid pine that originated ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Song BH,Wang XQ,Wang XR,Ding KY,Hong DY

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature stress that pelagic fishes experience can induce physiological and behavioural changes that leave a signature in gene expression profiles. We used a functional genomics approach to identify genes that were up- or down-regulated following thermal stress in the Pacific bluefin tuna. Following the acclima...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Castilho PC,Buckley BA,Somero G,Block BA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish have evolved a variety of sex-determining (SD) systems including male heterogamy (XY), female heterogamy (ZW) and environmental SD. Little is known about SD mechanisms of Sebastes rockfishes, a highly speciose genus of importance to evolutionary and conservation biology. Here, we characterize the sex determinatio...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Fowler BL,Buonaccorsi VP

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent molecular studies have shown that highly mobile species with continuous distributions can exhibit fine-scale population structure. In this context, we assessed genetic structure within a marine species with high dispersal potential, the Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis). Using 19 microsatellite loci...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Viricel A,Rosel PE

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00