Molecular Ecology publishes papers that utilize molecular genetic techniques to address consequential questions in ecology, evolution, behaviour and conservation. Studies may employ neutral markers for inference about ecological and evolutionary processes or examine ecologically important genes and their products directly. We discourage papers that are primarily descriptive and are relevant only to the taxon being studied. Papers reporting on molecular marker development, molecular diagnostics, barcoding, or DNA taxonomy, or technical methods should be re-directed to our sister journal, Molecular Ecology Resources. Likewise, papers with a strongly applied focus should be submitted to Evolutionary Applications. Research areas of interest to Molecular Ecology include: * population structure and phylogeography * reproductive strategies * relatedness and kin selection * sex allocation * population genetic theory * analytical methods development * conservation genetics * speciation genetics * microbial biodiversity * evolutionary dynamics of QTLs * ecological interactions * molecular adaptation and environmental genomics * impact of genetically modified organisms
分子生态学发表的论文利用分子遗传技术来解决生态学、进化、行为和保护方面的重大问题。研究可以使用中性标记来推断生态学和进化过程，或者直接检查生态学上重要的基因及其产物。我们不鼓励那些主要是描述性的和只与所研究的分类单元相关的论文。有关分子标记开发、分子诊断、条形码或DNA分类学或技术方法的论文应转至我们的姊妹期刊《分子生态学资源》。同样，具有强烈应用焦点的论文应提交给进化应用。分子生态学感兴趣的研究领域包括：*种群结构和种系地理学*繁殖策略*亲缘关系和亲缘选择*性别分配*种群遗传学理论*分析方法开发*保护遗传学*物种形成遗传学*微生物生物多样性* QTL的进化动态*生态相互作用*分子适应和环境基因组学*转基因生物的影响
DNA metabarcoding—Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15060
Detecting host–parasitoid interactions in an invasive Lepidopteran using nested tagging DNA metabarcoding
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14518
How much is enough? Effects of technical and biological replication on metabarcoding dietary analysis
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14779
Pervasive gene conversion in chromosomal inversion heterozygotes
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14921
Host genetic determinants of the gut microbiota of wild mice
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15139
Geospatial variation in co‐occurrence networks of nitrifying microbial guilds
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14893
The specificity of Burkholderia symbionts in the social amoeba farming symbiosis: Prevalence, species, genetic and phenotypic diversity
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14982
Progressive behavioural, physiological and transcriptomic shifts over the course of prolonged starvation in ticks
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14949
Unexpected bird–feather mite associations revealed by DNA metabarcoding uncovers a dynamic ecoevolutionary scenario
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14968
Higher contribution of globally rare bacterial taxa reflects environmental transitions across the surface ocean
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15026
Parallel introgression and selection on introduced alleles in a native species
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15097
Drift happens: Molecular genetic diversity and differentiation among populations of jewelweed (Impatiens capensis Meerb.) reflect fragmentation of floodplain forests
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15072
Phenotypic sexual dimorphism is associated with genomic signatures of resolved sexual conflict
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15115
Multiple forms of selection shape reproductive isolation in a primate hybrid zone
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14966
Dissecting the genetic architecture of a stepwise infection process
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15166
Evidence for the genetic basis and epistatic interactions underlying ocean‐ and river‐maturing ecotypes of Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) returning to the Klamath River, California
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15136
Resilience in reef‐building corals: The ecological and evolutionary importance of the host response to thermal stress
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15337
Nonfertilizing sperm in Lepidoptera show little evidence for recurrent positive selection
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15096
Chromosomal inversions promote genomic islands of concerted evolution of Hsp70 genes in the Drosophila subobscura species subgroup
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14511
Divergent mitochondrial lineages arose within a large, panmictic population of the Savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15049
The role of recombination on genome‐wide patterns of local ancestry exemplified by supplemented brook charr populations
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15256
Comparative proteomics of stenotopic caddisfly Crunoecia irrorata identifies acclimation strategies to warming
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15225
Delineation of ecologically distinct units of marine Bacteroidetes in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15068
The population genomics of multiple tsetse fly (Glossina fuscipes fuscipes) admixture zones in Uganda
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14957
Disentangling the complex microbial community of coral reefs using standardized Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15167
Behavioural, physiological and molecular changes in alloparental caregivers may be responsible for selection response for female reproductive investment in honey bees
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15207
Size matters in regulating the biodiversity of tropical forest soils
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.14996
Changes in melanocyte RNA and DNA methylation favour pheomelanin synthesis and may avoid systemic oxidative stress after dietary cysteine supplementation in birds
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15024
Do estimates of contemporary effective population size tell us what we want to know?
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15027
Amazon fish bacterial communities show structural convergence along widespread hydrochemical gradients
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15184
Stochastic exits from dormancy give rise to heavy‐tailed distributions of descendants in bacterial populations
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15200
Mosquito control actions affect chironomid diversity in temporary wetlands of the Upper Rhine Valley
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15214
Faster speciation of fig‐wasps than their host figs leads to decoupled speciation dynamics: Snapshots across the speciation continuum
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15190
Spatiotemporally explicit demographic modelling supports a joint effect of historical barriers to dispersal and contemporary landscape composition on structuring genomic variation in a red‐listed grasshopper
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15086
Ear mite infection is associated with altered microbial communities in genetically depauperate Santa Catalina Island foxes (Urocyon littoralis catalinae)
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15325
Efficient but occasionally imperfect vertical transmission of gut mutualistic protists in a wood‐feeding termite
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15322
Time series are critical to understand microbial plankton diversity and ecology
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15015
Causes and consequences of reciprocal translocations on sex chromosomes
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15064
The evolution of microendemism in a reef fish (Hypoplectrus maya)
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15110
Geographical and temporal variation of multiple paternity in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki, Gambusia affinis)
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15294
Multi‐tasking as an ancient skill: When one gene does many things well
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15003
Exposure to a competitive social environment activates an epigenetic mechanism that limits pheomelanin synthesis in zebra finches
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15171
Landscape drivers of genomic diversity and divergence in woodland Eucalyptus
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15287
Mitochondria, sex and variation in routine metabolic rate
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15244
Lack of statistical power as a major limitation in understanding MHC‐mediated immunocompetence in wild vertebrate populations
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15276
Genomics, environment and balancing selection in behaviourally bimodal populations: The caribou case
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15039
Kin grouping is insufficient to explain the inclusive fitness gains of conspecific brood parasitism in the common eider
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15258
Two reproductive traits show contrasting genetic architectures in Plantago lanceolata
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15320
Variation in juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) transcription profiles among and within eight population crosses from British Columbia, Canada
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15025
Alloparental care in the sea: Brood parasitism and adoption within and between two species of coral reef Altrichthys damselfish?
来源期刊：Molecular EcologyDOI：10.1111/mec.15243
