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：:Several species of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio) are Batesian mimics that express multiple mimetic female forms, while the males are monomorphic and nonmimetic. The evolution of such sex-limited mimicry may involve sexual dimorphism arising first and mimicry subsequently. Such a stepwise scenario through a n...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Timmermans MJ,Thompson MJ,Collins S,Vogler AP

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiomes of rhizocompartments (nodule endophytes, root endophytes, rhizosphere and root zone) in soya bean and alfalfa were analysed using high-throughput sequencing to investigate the interactions among legume species, microorganisms and soil types. A clear hierarchical filtration of microbiota by plants was o...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Xiao X,Chen W,Zong L,Yang J,Jiao S,Lin Y,Wang E,Wei G

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral reefs belong to the most diverse ecosystems on our planet. The diversity in coloration and lifestyles of coral reef fishes makes them a particularly promising system to study the role of visual communication and adaptation. Here, we investigated the evolution of visual pigment genes (opsins) in damselfish (Pomac...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Stieb SM,Cortesi F,Sueess L,Carleton KL,Salzburger W,Marshall NJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity in experimental, domesticated and wild populations of the related yeasts, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus, has been well described at the global scale. We investigated the population genomics of a local population on a small spatial scale to address two main questions. First, is ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Xia W,Nielly-Thibault L,Charron G,Landry CR,Kasimer D,Anderson JB,Kohn LM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divergent host use has long been suspected to drive population differentiation and speciation in plant-feeding insects. Evaluating the contribution of divergent host use to genetic differentiation can be difficult, however, as dispersal limitation and population structure may also influence patterns of genetic variati...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bagley RK,Sousa VC,Niemiller ML,Linnen CR

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological invasions comprise accidental evolutionary experiments, whose genetic compositions underlie relative success, spread and persistence in new habitats. However, little is known about whether, or how, their population genetic patterns change temporally and/or spatially across the invasion's history. Theory pre...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Snyder MR,Stepien CA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding divergent adaptation and ecological speciation requires the synthesis of multiple approaches, including phenotypic characterization, genetics and genomics, realistic assessment of fitness and population genetic modelling. Current research in this field often approaches this problem from one of two direct...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Byers KJ,Xu S,Schlüter PM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic architecture of local adaptation has been of central interest to evolutionary biologists since the modern synthesis. In addition to classic theory on the effect size of adaptive mutations by Fisher, Kimura and Orr, recent theory addresses the genetic architecture of local adaptation in the face of ongoing ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ferris KG,Barnett LL,Blackman BK,Willis JH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination rate is a heritable trait that varies among individuals. Despite the major impact of recombination rate on patterns of genetic diversity and the efficacy of selection, natural variation in this phenotype remains poorly characterized. We present a comparison of genetic maps, sampling 1212 meioses, from a ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wang RJ,Gray MM,Parmenter MD,Broman KW,Payseur BA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regions of the genome displaying elevated differentiation (genomic islands of divergence) are thought to play an important role in local adaptation, especially in populations experiencing high gene flow. However, the characteristics of these islands as well as the functional significance of genes located within them r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Larson WA,Limborg MT,McKinney GJ,Schindler DE,Seeb JE,Seeb LW

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Modes and mechanisms of speciation are best studied in young species pairs. In older taxa, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish what happened during speciation from what happened after speciation. Lake Victoria cichlids in the genus Pundamilia encompass a complex of young species and polymorphic populations. On...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Meier JI,Sousa VC,Marques DA,Selz OM,Wagner CE,Excoffier L,Seehausen O

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repeated evolution of similar phenotypes by similar mechanisms can be indicative of local adaptation, constraints or biases in the evolutionary process. Little is known about the incidence of physiological convergence in natural populations, so here we test whether energy metabolism in 'dwarf' and 'normal' Lake Wh...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Dalziel AC,Laporte M,Rougeux C,Guderley H,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:Geographical isolation, habitat variation and trophic specialization have contributed to a large extent to the astonishing diversity of cichlid fishes in the Great East African lakes. Because parasite communities often vary across space and environments, parasites can accompany and potentially enhance cichlid species ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Hablützel PI,Grégoir AF,Vanhove MP,Volckaert FA,Raeymaekers JA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life cycles and dispersal of edible fungi are still poorly known, thus limiting our understanding of their evolution and domestication. The prized Tuber melanosporum produces fruitbodies (fleshy organs where meiospores mature) gathered in natural, spontaneously inoculated forests or harvested in plantations of nur...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Taschen E,Rousset F,Sauve M,Benoit L,Dubois MP,Richard F,Selosse MA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many genes increase coding capacity by alternate exon usage. The gene encoding the insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) α6 subunit, target of the bio-insecticide spinosad, is one example of this and expands protein diversity via alternative splicing of mutually exclusive exons. Here, we show that spinosad r...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Berger M,Puinean AM,Randall E,Zimmer CT,Silva WM,Bielza P,Field LM,Hughes D,Mellor I,Hassani-Pak K,Siqueira HA,Williamson MS,Bass C

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arion vulgaris (syn. A. lusitanicus) is the most destructive pest slug in Europe. The species has been regarded a classic case of an ongoing biological invasion with negative economic and ecological impact in many European countries, but this status has recently been contested. In this study, we assessed mitochondrial...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zemanova MA,Knop E,Heckel G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment and subsequent spread of invasive species is widely recognized as one of the most threatening processes contributing to global biodiversity loss. This is especially true for marine and estuarine ecosystems, which have experienced significant increases in the number of invasive species with the increa...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Richardson MF,Sherman CD,Lee RS,Bott NJ,Hirst AJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past climate change has caused shifts in species distributions and undoubtedly impacted patterns of genetic variation, but the biological processes mediating responses to climate change, and their genetic signatures, are often poorly understood. We test six species-specific biologically informed hypotheses about such ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Bemmels JB,Title PO,Ortego J,Knowles LL

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies found fish egg-specific bacterial communities that changed over the course of embryogenesis, suggesting an interaction between the developing host and its microbiota. Indeed, single-strain infections demonstrated that the virulence of opportunistic bacteria is influenced by environmental factors and hos...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Wilkins LG,Fumagalli L,Wedekind C

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating how environmental features shape the genetic structure of populations is crucial for understanding how they are potentially adapted to their habitats, as well as for sound management. In this study, we assessed the relative importance of spatial distribution, ocean currents and sea surface temperature (S...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Benestan L,Quinn BK,Maaroufi H,Laporte M,Clark FK,Greenwood SJ,Rochette R,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on hybridization between species provides unparalleled insights into the pre- and postzygotic isolating mechanisms that drive speciation. In social organisms, colony-level incompatibilities may provide additional reproductive barriers not present in solitary species, and hybrid zones offer an opportunity to i...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Purcell J,Zahnd S,Athanasiades A,Türler R,Chapuisat M,Brelsford A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive radiations provide unique opportunities to test whether and how recent ecological and evolutionary diversification of host species structures the composition of entire bacterial communities. We used 16S rRNA gene sequencing of faecal samples to test for differences in the gut microbiota of six species of Puer...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Ren T,Kahrl AF,Wu M,Cox RM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed germination is a key life history transition for annual plants and partly determines lifetime performance and fitness. Germination speed, the elapsed time for a nondormant seed to germinate, is a poorly understood trait important for plants' competitiveness and fitness in fluctuating environments. Germination spe...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Yuan W,Flowers JM,Sahraie DJ,Ehrenreich IM,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

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：:Inbreeding depression is the loss of fitness resulting from the mating of genetically related individuals. Traditionally, the study of inbreeding depression focused on genetic effects, although recent research has identified DNA methylation as also having a role in inbreeding effects. Since inbreeding depression and D...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Venney CJ,Johansson ML,Heath DD

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the spatial scale at which selection acts upon adaptive genetic variation in natural populations is fundamental to our understanding of evolutionary ecology, and has important ramifications for conservation. The environmental factors to which individuals of a population are exposed can vary at fine spati...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Gonzalez-Quevedo C,Davies RG,Phillips KP,Spurgin LG,Richardson DS

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When similar selection acts on the same traits in multiple species or populations, parallel evolution can result in similar phenotypic changes, yet the underlying molecular architecture of parallel phenotypic divergence can be variable. Maternal effects can influence evolution at ecological timescales and facilitate l...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Shu L,Laurila A,Suter MJ,Räsänen K

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis; DHP) is an icon of conservation biology. Isolated in a 50 m(2) pool (Devils Hole), DHP is one of the rarest vertebrate species known and an evolutionary anomaly, having survived in complete isolation for thousands of years. However, recent findings suggest DHP might be you...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Sağlam İK,Baumsteiger J,Smith MJ,Linares-Casenave J,Nichols AL,O'Rourke SM,Miller MR

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary processes and genetics underlying local adaptation at a specieswide level are largely unknown. Recent work has indicated that a frameshift mutation in a member of a family of transcription factors, C-repeat binding factors or CBFs, underlies local adaptation and freezing tolerance divergence between t...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Monroe JG,McGovern C,Lasky JR,Grogan K,Beck J,McKay JK

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex chromosomes are believed to be stable in endotherms, but young and evolutionary unstable in most ectothermic vertebrates. Within lacertids, the widely radiated lizard group, sex chromosomes have been reported to vary in morphology and heterochromatinization, which may suggest turnovers during the evolution of the ...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Rovatsos M,Vukić J,Altmanová M,Johnson Pokorná M,Moravec J,Kratochvíl L

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:The level of integration between associated partners can range from ectosymbioses to extracellular and intracellular endosymbioses, and this range has been assumed to reflect a continuum from less intimate to evolutionarily highly stable associations. In this study, we examined the specificity and evolutionary history...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Zimmermann J,Wentrup C,Sadowski M,Blazejak A,Gruber-Vodicka HR,Kleiner M,Ott JA,Cronholm B,De Wit P,Erséus C,Dubilier N

更新日期：2016-07-01 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

abstract：:The population dynamics of a parasite depend on species traits, host dynamics and the environment. Those dynamics are reflected in the genetic structure of the population. Habitat fragmentation has a greater impact on parasites than on their hosts because resource distribution is increasingly fragmented for species at...

journal_title：Molecular ecology

authors： Couchoux C,Seppä P,van Nouhuys S

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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