abstract：:In most instances of tumour development, genetic instability plays a role in allowing cancer cell populations to respond to selection barriers, such as physical constraints or immune responses, and rapidly adapt to an always changing environment. Modelling instability is a nontrivial task, since by definition evolving...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Aguadé-Gorgorió G,Solé R

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The decreasing cost and increasing scope and power of emerging genomic technologies are reshaping the field of molecular ecology. However, many modern genomic approaches (e.g., RAD-seq) require large amounts of high-quality template DNA. This poses a problem for an active branch of conservation biology: genetic monito...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Carroll EL,Bruford MW,DeWoody JA,Leroy G,Strand A,Waits L,Wang J

更新日期：2018-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual assignment and genetic mixture analysis are commonly utilized in contemporary wildlife and fisheries management. Although microsatellite loci provide unparalleled numbers of alleles per locus, their use in assignment applications is increasingly limited. However, next-generation sequencing, in conjunction w...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Bradbury IR,Wringe BF,Watson B,Paterson I,Horne J,Beiko R,Lehnert SJ,Clément M,Anderson EC,Jeffery NW,Duffy S,Sylvester E,Robertson M,Bentzen P

更新日期：2018-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in research on gene drives have produced genetic constructs that could theoretically spread a desired gene (payload) into all populations of a species, with a single release in one place. This attribute has advantages, but also comes with risks and ethical concerns. There has been a call for research o...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dhole S,Vella MR,Lloyd AL,Gould F

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The aetiological agent of Chagas disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, is a key human pathogen afflicting most populations of Latin America. This vectorborne parasite is transmitted by haematophageous triatomines, whose control by large-scale insecticide spraying has been the main strategy to limit the impact of the disease for...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Flores-Ferrer A,Marcou O,Waleckx E,Dumonteil E,Gourbière S

更新日期：2017-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary rescue of host populations may prevent extinction from novel pathogens. However, the conditions that facilitate rapid evolution of hosts, in particular the population variation in host susceptibility, and the effects of host evolution in response to pathogens on population outcomes remain largely unkn...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Christie MR,Searle CL

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Restoration of lost species ranges to their native distribution is key for the survival of endangered species. However, reintroductions often fail and long-term genetic consequences are poorly understood. Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) are wild goats that recovered from <100 individuals to ~50,000 within a century by popula...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Grossen C,Biebach I,Angelone-Alasaad S,Keller LF,Croll D

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Current natural populations face new interactions because of the re-emergence of ancient microbes and viruses. These risks come from the re-emergence of pathogens kept in laboratories or from pathogens that are retained in the permafrost, which become available upon thawing due to climate change. We here focus on the ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Houwenhuyse S,Macke E,Reyserhove L,Bulteel L,Decaestecker E

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern maize breeding programs gave rise to genetically uniform varieties that can affect maize's capacity to cope with increasing climate unpredictability. Maize populations, genetically more heterogeneous, can evolve and better adapt to a broader range of edaphic-climatic conditions. These populations usually suffer...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Alves ML,Belo M,Carbas B,Brites C,Paulo M,Mendes-Moreira P,Brites C,Bronze MDR,Šatović Z,Vaz Patto MC

更新日期：2017-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungicide resistance is a constant threat to agricultural production worldwide. Molecular mechanisms of fungicide resistance have been studied extensively in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. However, less is known about the evolutionary processes driving resistance development. In vitro evolutionary studies gi...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gutiérrez-Alonso O,Hawkins NJ,Cools HJ,Shaw MW,Fraaije BA

更新日期：2017-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, the effects of chronic, continuous low dose environmental irradiation on the mitochondrial genome of resident small mammals are unknown. Using the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) as a model system, we tested the hypothesis that approximately 50 generations of exposure to the Chernobyl environment has significa...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Baker RJ,Dickins B,Wickliffe JK,Khan FAA,Gaschak S,Makova KD,Phillips CD

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms are expected to respond to alterations in their survival by evolutionary changes in their life history traits. As agriculture and aquaculture have become increasingly intensive in the past decades, there has been growing interest in their evolutionary effects on the life histories of agri- and aquacultural p...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Mennerat A,Ugelvik MS,Håkonsrud Jensen C,Skorping A

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In arid environments, the source of the malaria mosquito populations that re-establish soon after first rains remains a puzzle and alternative explanations have been proposed. Using genetic data, we evaluated whether the early rainy season (RS) population of Anopheles coluzzii is descended from the preceding late RS g...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Lehmann T,Weetman D,Huestis DL,Yaro AS,Kassogue Y,Diallo M,Donnelly MJ,Dao A

更新日期：2017-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance is a crisis in health care today. Antibiotic resistance is often horizontally transferred to susceptible bacteria by means of multidrug resistance plasmids that may or may not persist in the absence of antibiotics. Because bacterial pathogens often grow as biofilms, th...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Ridenhour BJ,Metzger GA,France M,Gliniewicz K,Millstein J,Forney LJ,Top EM

更新日期：2017-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Many populations are doomed to extinction, but little is known about how evolution contributes to their longevity. We address this by modeling an asexual population consisting of genotypes whose abundances change independently according to a system of continuous branching diffusions. Each genotype is characterized by ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Gomulkiewicz R,Krone SM,Remien CH

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Whitefish (Coregonus spp.) are an important catch for many freshwater fisheries, particularly in Switzerland. In support of this, supplemental stocking of whitefish species is carried out, despite lacking complete knowledge of the extent, distribution and origin of whitefish diversity in these lakes, potentially threa...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Hudson AG,Lundsgaard-Hansen B,Lucek K,Vonlanthen P,Seehausen O

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic chimerism is rarely considered in the analysis of population genetics data, because assumed to be an exceptionally rare, mostly benign, developmental accident. An unappreciated source of chimerism is transmissible cancer, when malignant cells have become independent parasites and can infect other individuals. ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Riquet F,Simon A,Bierne N

更新日期：2016-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbreeding depression (reduced fitness of individuals with related parents) has long been a major focus of ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. Despite decades of research, we still have a limited understanding of the strength, underlying genetic mechanisms, and demographic consequences of inbreeding depressi...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Kardos M,Taylor HR,Ellegren H,Luikart G,Allendorf FW

更新日期：2016-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Standing genetic variation may allow for rapid evolutionary response to the geologically unprecedented changes in global conditions. However, there is little known about the consequences of such rapid evolutionary change. Here, we measure genetic responses to experimental low and high pCO 2 levels in purple sea urchin...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Lloyd MM,Makukhov AD,Pespeni MH

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene flow in crop-wild complexes between phenotypically differentiated ancestors may transfer adaptive genetic variation that alters the fecundity and, potentially, the population growth (λ) of weeds. We created biotypes with potentially invasive traits, early flowering or long leaves, in wild radish (Raphanus raphani...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Campbell LG,Teitel Z,Miriti MN

更新日期：2016-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Whilst adaptation and phenotypic plasticity might buffer species against habitat degradation associated with global climate change, few studies making such claims also possess the necessary and sufficient data to support them. Doing so requires demonstration of heritable variation in traits affecting fitness under new...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： McCairns RJ,Smith S,Sasaki M,Bernatchez L,Beheregaray LB

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The sustainability of modern agriculture relies on strategies that can control the ability of pathogens to overcome chemicals or genetic resistances through natural selection. This evolutionary potential, which depends partly on effective population size (N e ), is greatly influenced by human activities. In this conte...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Jan PL,Gracianne C,Fournet S,Olivier E,Arnaud JF,Porte C,Bardou-Valette S,Denis MC,Petit EJ

更新日期：2016-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene flow from plantations of nonlocal (genetically exotic) tree provenances into natural stands of the same species is probably a widespread phenomenon, but its effects remain largely unexamined. We investigated early fitness consequences of intraspecific exotic gene flow in the wild by assessing differences in survi...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Unger GM,Heuertz M,Vendramin GG,Robledo-Arnuncio JJ

更新日期：2016-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance is a growing concern to public health. New treatment strategies may alleviate the situation by slowing down the evolution of resistance. Here, we evaluated sequential treatment protocols using two fully independent laboratory-controlled evolution experiments with the human pathogen Pseudomonas ae...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Roemhild R,Barbosa C,Beardmore RE,Jansen G,Schulenburg H

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens are ubiquitous in insect populations and yet few studies examine their dynamics and impacts on host populations. We discuss four lepidopteran systems and explore their contributions to disease ecology and evolution. More specifically, we elucidate the role of pathogens in insect population dynamics. For thre...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Myers JH,Cory JS

更新日期：2015-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Pest species represent a major ongoing threat to global biodiversity. Effective management approaches are required that regulate pest numbers, while minimizing collateral damage to nontarget species. The Trojan Female Technique (TFT) was recently proposed as a prospective approach to biological pest control. The TFT d...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dowling DK,Tompkins DM,Gemmell NJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization may be an important process interjecting variation into insect populations enabling host plant shifts and the origin of new economic pests. Here, we examine whether hybridization between the native snowberry-infesting fruit fly Rhagoletis zephyria (Snow) and the introduced quarantine pest R. pomonella (W...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Arcella T,Hood GR,Powell TH,Sim SB,Yee WL,Schwarz D,Egan SP,Goughnour RB,Smith JJ,Feder JL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I review theoretical models for the evolution of supergenes in the cases of Batesian mimicry in butterflies, distylous plants and sex chromosomes. For each of these systems, I outline the genetic evidence that led to the proposal that they involve multiple genes that interact during 'complex adaptations', and at which...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Charlesworth D

更新日期：2015-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary perspective of cancer (which origins and dynamics result from evolutionary processes) has gained significant international recognition over the past decade and generated a wave of enthusiasm among researchers. In this context, several authors proposed that insights into evolutionary and adaptation dyn...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Arnal A,Ujvari B,Crespi B,Gatenby RA,Tissot T,Vittecoq M,Ewald PW,Casali A,Ducasse H,Jacqueline C,Missé D,Renaud F,Roche B,Thomas F

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noug (Guizotia abyssinica) is a semidomesticated oil-seed crop, which is primarily cultivated in Ethiopia. Unlike its closest crop relative, sunflower, noug has small seeds, small flowering heads, many branches, many flowering heads, and indeterminate flowering, and it shatters in the field. Here, we conducted common ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Dempewolf H,Tesfaye M,Teshome A,Bjorkman AD,Andrew RL,Scascitelli M,Black S,Bekele E,Engels JM,Cronk QC,Rieseberg LH

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the potential of marine organisms to adapt genetically to increasing oceanic CO2 levels requires proxies such as heritability of fitness-related traits under ocean acidification (OA). We applied a quantitative genetic method to derive the first heritability estimate of survival under elevated CO2 conditions ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Malvezzi AJ,Murray CS,Feldheim KA,DiBattista JD,Garant D,Gobler CJ,Chapman DD,Baumann H

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microbes have been evolving resistance to antimicrobials for millennia, the spread of resistance in pathogen populations calls for the development of new drugs and treatment strategies. We propose that successful, long-term resistance management requires a better understanding of how resistance evolves in the...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Perron GG,Inglis RF,Pennings PS,Cobey S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis are an ecologically and economically important parasite of wild and farmed salmon. In Scotland, Norway, and Eastern Canada, L. salmonis have developed resistance to emamectin benzoate (EMB), one of the few parasiticides available for salmon lice. Drug resistance mechanisms can be co...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Sutherland BJ,Poley JD,Igboeli OO,Jantzen JR,Fast MD,Koop BF,Jones SR

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the transition of bacterial species from commensal to pathogen, or vice versa, is a key application of evolutionary theory to preventative medicine. This requires working knowledge of the molecular interaction between hosts and bacteria, ecological interactions among microbes, spatial variation in bacter...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Lin D,Koskella B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of genetic mechanisms underpinning migratory behavior could help predict how changes in genetic diversity may affect future spatiotemporal distribution of a migratory species. This ability would benefit conservation of one such declining species, anadromous Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus). Nonphi...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Hess JE,Caudill CC,Keefer ML,McIlraith BJ,Moser ML,Narum SR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While nonanadromous males (stream-resident and/or mature male parr) contribute to reproduction in anadromous salmonids, little is known about their impacts on key population genetic parameters. Here, we evaluated the contribution of Atlantic salmon mature male parr to the effective number of breeders (Nb) using both d...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Perrier C,Normandeau É,Dionne M,Richard A,Bernatchez L

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution has resulted in thousands of species possessing similar metabolic enzymes with identical functions that are, however, regulated by different mechanisms. It is thus difficult to select optimal gene to engineer novel or manipulated metabolic pathways. Here, we tested the ability of molecular evolutionary analy...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Ma X,Zhang X,Wang B,Mao Y,Wang Z,Chen T,Zhao X

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Best practices in wildlife disease management require robust evolutionary ecological research (EER). This means not only basing management decisions on evolutionarily sound reasoning, but also conducting management in a way that actively contributes to the on-going development of that research. Because good management...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Crozier G,Schulte-Hostedde AI

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence of climatic effects on riverine environments and adaptive responses of fishes have elicited growing conservation concerns. Measures to rectify population declines include assessment of local extinction risk, population ecology, viability, and genetic differentiation. While conservation planning has b...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Matala AP,Ackerman MW,Campbell MR,Narum SR

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reassortment between different species or strains plays a key role in the evolution of multipartite plant viruses and can have important epidemiological implications. Identifying geographic locations where reassortant lineages are most likely to emerge could be a valuable strategy for informing disease management and ...

journal_title：Evolutionary applications

authors： Savory FR,Varma V,Ramakrishnan U

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00