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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions

Now showing items 181-200 of 1921

    • Rates of niche and phenotype evolution lag behind diversification in a temperate radiation 

      Folk, Ryan A.; Stubbs, Rebecca L.; Mort, Mark E.; Cellinese, Nico; Allen, Julie M.; Soltis, Pamela S.; Soltis, Douglas E.; Guralnick, Robert P. (National Academy of Sciences, 2019-05-13)
      Environmental change can create opportunities for increased rates of lineage diversification, but continued species accumulation has been hypothesized to lead to slowdowns via competitive exclusion and niche partitioning. ...

    • Earth history and the passerine superradiation 

      Oliveros, Carl H.; Field, Daniel J.; Ksepka, Daniel T.; Barker, F. Keith; Aleixo, Alexandre; Andersen, Michael J.; Alström, Per; Benz, Brett W.; Braun, Edward L.; Braun, Michael J.; Bravo, Gustavo A.; Brumfield, Robb T.; Chesser, R. Terry; Claramunt, Santiago; Cracraft, Joel; Cuervo, Andrés M.; Derryberry, Elizabeth P.; Glenn, Travis C.; Harvey, Michael G.; Hosner, Peter A.; Joseph, Leo; Kimball, Rebecca T.; Mack, Andrew L.; Miskelly, Colin M.; Peterson, A. Townsend; Robbins, Mark B.; Sheldon, Frederick H.; Silveira, Luís Fábio; Smith, Brian Tilston; White, Noor D.; Moyle, Robert G.; Faircloth, Brant C. (National Academy of Sciences, 2019-04-01)
      Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the diversification of the hyperdiverse perching birds ...

    • On the nature of genetic variation in yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus): combining theoretical and empirical approaches 

      Brown, Keely Elizabeth (University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)
      Evolution via natural selection requires standing variation in a population while simultaneously diminishing it at loci under selection, a paradox that continues to vex evolutionary biologists. The work presented here ...

    • The early history of netting bats 

      Timm, Robert M.; McLaren, Suzanne B.; Genoways, Hugh H. (2021-01)

    • Genetics of adaptation in modern chicken 

      Qanbari, Saber; Rubin, Carl-Johan; Maqbool, Khurram; Weigend, Steffen; Weigend, Annett; Geibel, Johannes; Kerje, Susanne; Wurmser, Christine; Peterson, A. Townsend; Brisbin, I. Lehr, Jr.; Preisinger, Ruedi; Fries, Ruedi; Simianer, Henner; Andersson, Leif (Public Library of Science, 2019-04-29)
      We carried out whole genome resequencing of 127 chicken including red jungle fowl and multiple populations of commercial broilers and layers to perform a systematic screening of adaptive changes in modern chicken (Gallus ...

    • GOOGA: A platform to synthesize mapping experiments and identify genomic structural diversity 

      Flagel, Lex E.; Blackman, Benjamin K.; Fishman, Lila; Monnahan, Patrick J.; Sweigart, Andrea; Kelly, John K. (Public Library of Science, 2019-04-15)
      Understanding genomic structural variation such as inversions and translocations is a key challenge in evolutionary genetics. We develop a novel statistical approach to comparative genetic mapping to detect large-scale ...

    • Synchrony is more than its top-down and climatic parts: Interacting Moran effects on phytoplankton in British seas 

      Sheppard, Lawrence W.; Defriez, Emma J.; Reid, Philip C.; Reuman, Daniel C. (Public Library of Science, 2019-03-28)
      Large-scale spatial synchrony is ubiquitous in ecology. We examined 56 years of data representing chlorophyll density in 26 areas in British seas monitored by the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey. We used wavelet methods ...

    • Sex and Asex: A clonal lexicon 

      Orive, Maria E.; Krueger-Hadfield, Stacy A. (Oxford University Press, 2020-12-18)
      Organisms across the tree of life have complex life cycles that include both sexual and asexual reproduction or that are obligately asexual. These organisms include ecologically dominant species that structure many terrestrial ...

    • Obituary: Thomas Henry Kunz (1938–2020) 

      Kurta, Alan; Frick, Winfred F.; Fenton, M. Brock; Campbell, Polly; McCracken, Gary F.; Timm, Robert M.; Genoways, Hugh H. (2020-12)

    • Using GIS to examine biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns in some late Paleozoic cephalopods from the North American Midcontinent Sea 

      Kolis, Kayla M.; Lieberman, Bruce S. (PeerJ, 2019-05-13)
      Geographic range is an important macroevolutionary parameter frequently considered in paleontological studies as species’ distributions and range sizes are determined by a variety of biotic and abiotic factors well known ...

    • Kuenm: An R package for detailed development of ecological niche models using Maxent 

      Cobos, Marlon E.; Peterson, A. Townsend; Barve, Narayani; Osorio-Olvera, Luis (PeerJ, 2019-02-06)
      Background Ecological niche modeling is a set of analytical tools with applications in diverse disciplines, yet creating these models rigorously is now a challenging task. The calibration phase of these models is critical, ...

    • Innovations that changed Mammalogy: field fixation for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) 

      Phillips, Carleton J.; Tandler, Bernard; Timm, Robert M.; McLaren, Suzanne B.; Genoways, Hugh H. (2021-01)

    • A chromosome-level genome assembly of Cydia pomonella provides insights into chemical ecology and insecticide resistance 

      Wan, Fanghao; Yin, Chuanlin; Tang, Rui; Chen, Maohua; Wu, Qiang; Huang, Cong; Qian, Wanqiang; Rota-Stabelli, Omar; Yang, Nianwan; Wang, Shuping; Wang, Guirong; Zhang, Guifen; Guo, Jianyang; Gu, Liuqi (Aloy); Chen, Longfei; Xing, Longsheng; Xi, Yu; Liu, Feiling; Lin, Kejian; Guo, Mengbo; Liu, Wei; He, Kang; Tian, Ruizheng; Jacquin-Joly, Emmanuelle; Franck, Pierre; Siegwart, Myriam; Ometto, Lino; Anfora, Gianfranco; Blaxter, Mark; Meslin, Camille; Nguyen, Petr; Dalíková, Martina; Marec, František; Olivares, Jérôme; Maugin, Sandrine; Shen, Jianru; Liu, Jinding; Guo, Jinmeng; Luo, Jiapeng; Liu, Bo; Fan, Wei; Feng, Likai; Zhao, Xianxin; Peng, Xiong; Wang, Kang; Liu, Lang; Zhan, Haixia; Liu, Wanxue; Shi, Guoliang; Jiang, Chunyan; Jin, Jisu; Xian, Xiaoqing; Lu, Sha; Ye, Mingli; Li, Meizhen; Yang, Minglu; Xiong, Renci; Walters, James R.; Li, Fei (Nature Research, 2019-09-17)
      The codling moth Cydia pomonella, a major invasive pest of pome fruit, has spread around the globe in the last half century. We generated a chromosome-level scaffold assembly including the Z chromosome and a portion of the ...

    • Mitochondrial genomes of the bird genus Piranga: rates of sequence evolution, and discordance between mitochondrial and nuclear markers 

      Campillo, Luke C.; Burns, Kevin J.; Moyle, Robert G.; Manthey, Joseph D. (Taylor & Francis Open Access, 2019-07-16)
      We report the characteristics of the mitochondrial genomes of 22 individuals in the bird genus Piranga, including all currently recognized species in the genus (n = 11). Elements follow the standard avian mitogenome series, ...

    • A new mitochondrial gene order in the banded cusk-eel Raneya brasiliensis (Actinopterygii, Ophidiiformes) 

      Fromm, Amir; Atkinson, Stephen D.; Alama-Bermejo, Gema; Cartwright, Paulyn; Bartholomew, Jerri L.; Huchon, Dorothée (Taylor & Francis Open Access, 2018-11-21)
      The complete mitochondrial genome of the banded cusk-eel, Raneya brasilensis (Kaup, 1856), was obtained using next-generation sequencing approaches. The genome sequence was 16,881 bp and exhibited a novel gene order for a ...

    • Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons 

      Brewer, Tess E.; Aronson, Emma L.; Arogyaswamy, Keshav; Billings, Sharon A.; Botthoff, Jon K.; Campbell, Ashley N.; Dove, Nicholas C.; Fairbanks, Dawson; Gallery, Rachel E.; Hart, Stephen C.; Kaye, Jason; King, Gary; Logan, Geoffrey; Lohse, Kathleen A.; Maltz, Mia R.; Mayorga, Emilio; O’Neill, Caitlin; Owens, Sarah M.; Packman, Aaron; Pett-Ridge, Jennifer; Plante, Alain F.; Richter, Daniel D.; Silver, Whendee L.; Yang, Wendy H.; Fierer, Noah (American Society for Microbiology, 2019-10-01)
      While most bacterial and archaeal taxa living in surface soils remain undescribed, this problem is exacerbated in deeper soils, owing to the unique oligotrophic conditions found in the subsurface. Additionally, previous ...

    • Notes on the classification of <i>Ctenocolletes</i> (Hymenoptera: Stenotritidae) 

      Engel, Michael S. (2019-12-23)
      Three new subgenera are established within the Australian bee genus Ctenocolletes Cockerell (Stenotritidae). Three species are placed in Ctenocolletopsis Engel, new subgenus, distinguished most notably by the absence of ...

    • On the classification of North American <i>Chelostoma</i> (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) 

      Engel, Michael S.; Griswold, Terry (2019-09-30)
      A new subgenus of Chelostoma Latreille is established for the New World group historically placed in Foveosmia Warncke. These species, placed herein in Neochelostoma Engel & Griswold, new subgenus, are differentiated from ...

    • New species of the augochlorine bee genus <i>Stilbochlora</i>, with a preliminary key (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) 

      Engel, Michael S. (2019-09-05)
      Three new species of the augochlorine bee genus Stilbochlora Engel et al. (Halictinae: Augochlorini) are described and figured from Peru. The new species are distinct from the type species, Stilbochlora eickworti (Engel ...

    • Notes on Papuasian and Malesian stingless bees, with the descriptions of new taxa (Hymenoptera: Apidae) 

      Engel, Michael S. (2019-08-12)
      Two new species of the stingless bee genus Heterotrigona Schwarz (Apinae: Meliponini) are described and figured from Papua New Guinea: Heterotrigona (Sahulotrigona) tricholoma Engel, new species, lighter individuals of ...