Search Results - "Evolutionary applications"

Hybridization and extinction by Todesco, Marco, Pascual, Mariana A., Owens, Gregory L., Ostevik, Katherine L., Moyers, Brook T., Hübner, Sariel, Heredia, Sylvia M., Hahn, Min A., Caseys, Celine, Bock, Dan G., Rieseberg, Loren H.

“…Hybridization may drive rare taxa to extinction through genetic swamping, where the rare form is replaced by hybrids, or by demographic swamping, where…”
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Climate change, adaptation, and phenotypic plasticity: the problem and the evidence by Merilä, Juha, Hendry, Andrew P.

“…Many studies have recorded phenotypic changes in natural populations and attributed them to climate change. However, controversy and uncertainty has arisen…”
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Estimated six per cent loss of genetic variation in wild populations since the industrial revolution by Leigh, Deborah M., Hendry, Andrew P., Vázquez‐Domínguez, Ella, Friesen, Vicki L.

“…Genetic variation is fundamental to population fitness and adaptation to environmental change. Human activities are driving declines in many wild populations…”
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A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology by Rivkin, L. Ruth, Santangelo, James S., Alberti, Marina, Aronson, Myla F. J., de Keyzer, Charlotte W., Diamond, Sarah E., Fortin, Marie‐Josée, Frazee, Lauren J., Gorton, Amanda J., Hendry, Andrew P., Liu, Yang, Losos, Jonathan B., MacIvor, J. Scott, Martin, Ryan A., McDonnell, Mark J., Miles, Lindsay S., Munshi‐South, Jason, Ness, Robert W., Newman, Amy E. M., Stothart, Mason R., Theodorou, Panagiotis, Thompson, Ken A., Verrelli, Brian C., Whitehead, Andrew, Winchell, Kristin M., Johnson, Marc T. J.

“…Urban ecosystems are rapidly expanding throughout the world, but how urban growth affects the evolutionary ecology of species living in urban areas remains…”
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Back into the wild—Apply untapped genetic diversity of wild relatives for crop improvement by Zhang, Hengyou, Mittal, Neha, Leamy, Larry J., Barazani, Oz, Song, Bao‐Hua

“…Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the…”
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Time to get moving: assisted gene flow of forest trees by Aitken, Sally N., Bemmels, Jordan B.

“…Geographic variation in trees has been investigated since the mid‐18th century. Similar patterns of clinal variation have been observed along latitudinal and…”
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The fitness costs of antibiotic resistance mutations by Melnyk, Anita H., Wong, Alex, Kassen, Rees

“…Antibiotic resistance is increasing in pathogenic microbial populations and is thus a major threat to public health. The fate of a resistance mutation in…”
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Genetic mixing for population management: From genetic rescue to provenancing by Hoffmann, Ary A., Miller, Adam D., Weeks, Andrew R.

“…Animal and plant species around the world are being challenged by the deleterious effects of inbreeding, loss of genetic diversity, and maladaptation due to…”
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Antibiotics in agriculture and the risk to human health: how worried should we be? by Chang, Qiuzhi, Wang, Weike, Regev‐Yochay, Gili, Lipsitch, Marc, Hanage, William P.

“…The use of antibiotics in agriculture is routinely described as a major contributor to the clinical problem of resistant disease in human medicine. While a…”
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Socio‐eco‐evolutionary dynamics in cities by Des Roches, Simone, Brans, Kristien I., Lambert, Max R., Rivkin, L. Ruth, Savage, Amy Marie, Schell, Christopher J., Correa, Cristian, De Meester, Luc, Diamond, Sarah E., Grimm, Nancy B., Harris, Nyeema C., Govaert, Lynn, Hendry, Andrew P., Johnson, Marc T. J., Munshi‐South, Jason, Palkovacs, Eric P., Szulkin, Marta, Urban, Mark C., Verrelli, Brian C., Alberti, Marina

“…Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between nature and human society. Characteristics of human society—including…”
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The evolutionary consequences of human–wildlife conflict in cities by Schell, Christopher J., Stanton, Lauren A., Young, Julie K., Angeloni, Lisa M., Lambert, Joanna E., Breck, Stewart W., Murray, Maureen H.

“…Human–wildlife interactions, including human–wildlife conflict, are increasingly common as expanding urbanization worldwide creates more opportunities for…”
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Guidelines for planning genomic assessment and monitoring of locally adaptive variation to inform species conservation by Flanagan, Sarah P., Forester, Brenna R., Latch, Emily K., Aitken, Sally N., Hoban, Sean

“…Identifying and monitoring locally adaptive genetic variation can have direct utility for conserving species at risk, especially when management may include…”
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Evolutionary and plastic responses to climate change in terrestrial plant populations by Franks, Steven J., Weber, Jennifer J., Aitken, Sally N.

“…As climate change progresses, we are observing widespread changes in phenotypes in many plant populations. Whether these phenotypic changes are directly caused…”
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Genetic and genomic monitoring with minimally invasive sampling methods by Carroll, Emma L., Bruford, Mike W., DeWoody, J. Andrew, Leroy, Gregoire, Strand, Alan, Waits, Lisette, Wang, Jinliang

“…The decreasing cost and increasing scope and power of emerging genomic technologies are reshaping the field of molecular ecology. However, many modern genomic…”
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Prospects and limitations of genomic offset in conservation management by Rellstab, Christian, Dauphin, Benjamin, Exposito‐Alonso, Moises

“…In nature conservation, there is keen interest in predicting how populations will respond to environmental changes such as climate change. These predictions…”
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The genetic basis of the fitness costs of antimicrobial resistance: a meta‐analysis approach by Vogwill, Tom, MacLean, R. Craig

“…The evolution of antibiotic resistance carries a fitness cost, expressed in terms of reduced competitive ability in the absence of antibiotics. This cost plays…”
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Genomics advances the study of inbreeding depression in the wild by Kardos, Marty, Taylor, Helen R., Ellegren, Hans, Luikart, Gordon, Allendorf, Fred W.

“…Inbreeding depression (reduced fitness of individuals with related parents) has long been a major focus of ecology, evolution, and conservation biology…”
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Population‐level inferences from environmental DNA—Current status and future perspectives by Sigsgaard, Eva Egelyng, Jensen, Mads Reinholdt, Winkelmann, Inger Eleanor, Møller, Peter Rask, Hansen, Michael Møller, Thomsen, Philip Francis

“…Environmental DNA (eDNA) extracted from water samples has recently shown potential as a valuable source of population genetic information for aquatic…”
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Plastic and evolutionary responses to climate change in fish by Crozier, Lisa G., Hutchings, Jeffrey A.

“…The physical and ecological ‘fingerprints’ of anthropogenic climate change over the past century are now well documented in many environments and taxa. We…”
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Climate change and timing of avian breeding and migration: evolutionary versus plastic changes by Charmantier, Anne, Gienapp, Phillip

“…There are multiple observations around the globe showing that in many avian species, both the timing of migration and breeding have advanced, due to warmer…”
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