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Effective population size
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Estimating species distribution and abundance in river networks using environmental DNA
Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Luca Carraro
All organisms leave traces of DNA in their environment. This environmental DNA (eDNA) is often used to track occurrence patterns of target species. Applications are especially promising in rivers, where eDNA can integrate information about populations upst ...
2018First quantitative survey delineates the distribution of chimpanzees in the Eastern Central African Republic
Stéphane Joost, Estelle Rochat
Vast, pristine ecosystems and their biodiversity are vanishing globally at frightening speed, but many large tracts of wilderness have not yet been systematically inventoried and important natural populations of threatened species remain poorly characteriz ...
Elsevier2017Persistence of butterfly populations in fragmented habitats along urban density gradients: motility helps
Stéphane Joost, Estelle Rochat, Ivo Widmer
In a simulation study of genotypes conducted over 100 generations for more than 1600 butterfly’s individuals, we evaluate how the increase of anthropogenic fragmentation and reduction of habitat size along urbanisation gradients (from 7% to 59% of impervio ...
Nature Publishing Group2017High performance computation of landscape genomic models including local indicators of spatial association
Stéphane Joost, Sylvie Stucki, Pierre Taberlet
With the increasing availability of both molecular and topo-climatic data, the main challenges facing landscape genomics — i.e. the combination of landscape ecology with population genomics — include processing large numbers of models and distinguishing be ...
Wiley-Blackwell2017Resistance of echovirus 11 to ClO2 is associated with enhanced host receptor use, altered entry routes and high fitness
Tamar Kohn, Anna Carratala Ripolles, Virginie Bachmann, Jeffrey David Jensen, Qingxia Zhong, Hyunjin Shim
Waterborne viruses can exhibit resistance to common water disinfectants, yet the mechanisms that allow them to tolerate disinfection are poorly understood. Here, we generated echovirus 11 (E11) with resistance to chlorine dioxide (ClO2) by experimental evo ...
Amer Chemical Soc2017Two sides of the same coin: A population genetics perspective on lethal mutagenesis and mutational meltdown
Jeffrey David Jensen, Claudia Bank, Sebastian Matuszewski, Nicky Louise Ormond
The extinction of RNA virus populations upon application of a mutagenic drug is frequently referred to as evidence for the existence of an error threshold, above which the population cannot sustain the mutational load. To explain the extinction process aft ...
Oxford Univ Press2017A heterogeneous evolutionary stable population under assortative matching: Exploring the diversity of preferences
Boris Thurm, Charles Chadi Ayoubi
Recent studies have shown that a population acting not only upon self-interest but also exhibiting some morality preference has an evolutionary advantage. Specifically, in the setting of a symmetric fitness game, a resident population is evolutionary stabl ...
2017MAGIC detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the low-luminosity blazar 1ES 1741+196
We present the first detection of the nearby (z = 0.084) low-luminosity BL Lac object 1ES 1741+196 in the very high energy (E > 100 GeV) band. This object lies in a triplet of interacting galaxies. Early predictions had suggested 1ES 1741+196 to be, along ...
Oxford Univ Press2017On the Analysis of Intrahost and Interhost Viral Populations: Human Cytomegalovirus as a Case Study of Pitfalls and Expectations
Jeffrey David Jensen, Sebastian Matuszewski, Susanne Petra Pfeifer
Intrahost and interhost assessments of viral diversity are often treated as measures of separate and distinct evolutionary processes, with numerous investigations reporting seemingly incompatible results between the two. For example, in human cytomegalovir ...
Amer Soc Microbiology2017Cross-Border Life in Europe: Daily Mobility in the Trinational Metropolis of Basel
In Europe about 2 million people work and live in two different countries. While at the European scale cross-border workers only account for a limited portion of the working-age population, in some regions cross-border work takes a huge importance. In thes ...
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