Journal: Molecular Ecology

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Mol Ecol

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0962-1083
1365-294X

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  • Prevalence of interspecific hybrids amongst asexual fungal endophytes of grasses
    Item type: Journal Article
    Moon, C.D.; Craven, K.D.; Leuchtmann, A.; et al. (2004)
    Molecular Ecology
  • Urban forest soils harbour distinct and more diverse communities of bacteria and fungi compared to less disturbed forest soils
    Item type: Journal Article
    Scholier, Tiffany; Lavrinienko, Anton; Brila, Ilze; et al. (2023)
    Molecular Ecology
    Anthropogenic changes to land use drive concomitant changes in biodiversity, including that of the soil microbiota. However, it is not clear how increasing intensity of human disturbance is reflected in the soil microbial communities. To address this issue, we used amplicon sequencing to quantify the microbiota (bacteria and fungi) in the soil of forests (n = 312) experiencing four different land uses, national parks (set aside for nature conservation), managed (for forestry purposes), suburban (on the border of an urban area) and urban (fully within a town or city), which broadly represent a gradient of anthropogenic disturbance. Alpha diversity of bacteria and fungi increased with increasing levels of anthropogenic disturbance, and was thus highest in urban forest soils and lowest in the national parks. The forest soil microbial communities were structured according to the level of anthropogenic disturbance, with a clear urban signature evident in both bacteria and fungi. Despite notable differences in community composition, there was little change in the predicted functional traits of urban bacteria. By contrast, urban soils exhibited a marked loss of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Soil pH was positively correlated with the level of disturbance, and thus was the strongest predictor of variation in alpha and beta diversity of forest soil communities, indicating a role of soil alkalinity in structuring urban soil microbial communities. Hence, our study shows how the properties of urban forest soils promote an increase in microbial diversity and a change in forest soil microbiota composition.
  • Inbreeding in a natural population of the gregarious parasitoid wasp Cotesia glomerata
    Item type: Journal Article
    Elias, J.; Dorn, S.; Mazzi, D. (2010)
    Molecular Ecology
  • Evolution of egg coats: linking molecular biology and ecology
    Item type: Review Article
    Shu, Longfei; Suter, Marc J.-F.; Raesaenen, Katja (2015)
    Molecular Ecology
  • Phylogeography and cryptic species structure of a locally adapted parasite in New Zealand
    Item type: Journal Article
    Feijen, Frida; Zajac, Natalia; Vorburger, Christoph; et al. (2022)
    Molecular Ecology
    The phylogeographic patterns of many taxa on New Zealand's South Island are characterized by disjunct distributions that have been attributed to Pleistocene climatic cycles and the formation of the Southern Alps. Pleistocene glaciation has been implicated in shaping the contemporary genetic differentiation between populations of the aquatic snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum. We investigated whether similar phylogeographic patterns exist for the snail's locally adapted trematode parasite, Atriophallophorus winterbourni. We found evidence for a barrier to gene-flow in sympatry between cryptic, but ecologically divergent species. When focusing on the most common of these species, disjunct geographic distributions are found for mitochondrial lineages that diverged during the Pleistocene. The boundary between these distributions is found in the central part of the South Island and is reinforced by low cross-alpine migration. Further support for a vicariant origin of the phylogeographic pattern was found when assessing nuclear multilocus SNP data. Nuclear and mitochondrial population differentiation was concordant in pattern, except for populations in a potential secondary contact zone. Additionally, we found larger than expected differentiation between nuclear- and mitochondrial-based empirical Bayes FST estimates (global FST: 0.02 vs. 0.39 for nuclear and mitochondrial data, respectively). Population subdivision is theoretically expected to be stronger for mitochondrial genomes due to a smaller effective population size, but the strong difference here, together with mitonuclear discordance in a putative contact zone, is potentially indicative of divergent gene flow of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes.
  • Evidence of neutral and adaptive genetic divergence between European trout populations sampled along altitudinal gradients
    Item type: Journal Article
    Keller, Irene; Taverna, Andreas; Seehausen, Ole (2011)
    Molecular Ecology
  • Evidence of divergent selection for drought and cold tolerance at landscape and local scales in Abies alba Mill. in the French Mediterranean Alps
    Item type: Journal Article
    Roschanski, Anna M.; Csillery, Katalin; Liepelt, Sascha; et al. (2016)
    Molecular Ecology
  • Genetic structure of hybrid zones between Silene latifolia and Silene dioica (Caryophyllaceae)
    Item type: Journal Article
    Minder, A. M.; Rothenbühler, C.; Widmer, Alex (2007)
    Molecular Ecology
  • Massive parallel MHC genotyping
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wegner, K. Mathias (2009)
    Molecular Ecology
  • Flexible social organization and high incidence of drifting in the sweat bee, Halictus scabiosae
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ulrich, Yuko; Perrin, Nicolas; Chapuisat, Michel (2009)
    Molecular Ecology
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