Pathogen invasion history elucidates contemporary host pathogen dynamics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Amphibians, the most threatened group of vertebrates, are seen as indicators of the sixth mass extinction on earth. Thousands of species are threatened with extinction and many have been affected by an emerging infectious disease, chytridiomycosis ...
Vance T Vredenburg +10 more
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Declining survival across invasion history for Microstegium vimineum. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Many alien species become invasive because they lack coevolutionary history with the native community; for instance, they may lack specialized enemies.
Chelsea E Cunard, Richard A Lankau
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Global phylogeography and invasion history of the spotted lanternfly revealed by mitochondrial phylogenomics [PDF]
Evolutionary Applications, 2021 Biological invasion has been a serious global threat due to increasing international trade and population movements. Tracking the source and route of invasive species and evaluating the genetic differences in their native regions have great significance ...
Zhenyong Du +10 more
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Global invasion history of the emerging plant pathogen Phytophthora multivora [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2022 Background global trade in living plants and plant material has significantly increased the geographic distribution of many plant pathogens. As a consequence, several pathogens have been first found and described in their introduced range where they may ...
Tetyana Tsykun +4 more
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Bridgehead effect and multiple introductions shape the global invasion history of a termite [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2021 Blumenfeld and Eyer et al. retrace the invasion history of the termite Coptotermes formosansus from eastern Asia to the US using approximate Bayesian computation.
Alexander J. Blumenfeld +9 more
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Global invasion history with climate-related allele frequency shifts in the invasive Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera, Tephritidae: Ceratitis capitata) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) is a globally invasive species and an economically significant pest of fruit crops. Understanding the evolutionary history and local climatic adaptation of this species is crucial for developing effective ...
Pablo Deschepper +10 more
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Digitized collections elucidate invasion history and patterns of awn polymorphism in Microstegium vimineum. [PDF]
Am J Bot, 2022 Premise Digitized collections can help illuminate the mechanisms behind the establishment and spread of invasive plants. These databases provide a record of traits in space and time that allows for investigation of abiotic and biotic factors that ...
Barrett CF +11 more
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Invasion History and Dispersion Dynamics of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly in the Balkan Peninsula [PDF]
InsectsThe Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann 1824; Diptera, Tephritidae), is considered one of the most important pests, infesting more than 300 species of fresh fruit and vegetables worldwide.
Mario Bjeliš +5 more
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Global invasion history of the agricultural pest butterfly Pieris rapae revealed with genomics and citizen science. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Significance Over the last few thousand years, the seemingly inconspicuous cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, has become one of the most abundant and destructive butterflies in the world.
Ryan SF +12 more
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Species distribution models throughout the invasion history of Palmer amaranth predict regions at risk of future invasion and reveal challenges with modeling rapidly shifting geographic ranges. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) is an annual plant native to the desert Southwest of the United States and Mexico and has become invasive and caused large economic losses across much of the United States. In order to examine the temporal and spatial
Briscoe Runquist RD +3 more
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