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1. Full Text A quantitative review of MHC‐based mating preference: the role of diversity and dissimilarity
by Kamiya, T and O'Dwyer, K and Westerdahl, H and Senior, A and Nakagawa, S and Lund University and MEMEG and Lunds universitet
Molecular Ecology, ISSN 0962-1083, 11/2014, Volume 23, Issue 21, pp. 5151 - 5163
Sexual selection hypotheses stipulate that the major histocompatibility complex genes (MHC) constitute a key molecular underpinning for mate choice in... 
meta‐regression | meta‐analysis | the major histocompatibility complex | MHC diversity | mate choice | genetic compatibility | meta-analysis | meta-regression | PARASITE RESISTANCE | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX | SEXUAL SELECTION | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | PUBLICATION BIAS | EVOLUTION | NATURAL-SELECTION | CLASS-I | ECOLOGY | GOOD-GENES | SAND LIZARDS | DEPENDENT MATE CHOICE | Genetic Variation | Mating Preference, Animal | Major Histocompatibility Complex | Animals | Vertebrates - genetics | Female | Male | Phylogeny | Phylogenetics | Animal reproduction | Vertebrates | Evolution | Population genetics | Biological Sciences | diversity | Naturvetenskap | MHC | Biologi | Natural Sciences
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2. Full Text Invariant scaling relationship between functional dissimilarity and co‐occurrence in fish assemblages of the Patos Lagoon estuary (Brazil): environmental filtering consistently overshadows competitive exclusion
by Mouchet, Maud A and Burns, Marcelo D. M and Garcia, Alexandre M and Vieira, João P and Mouillot, David
Oikos, ISSN 0030-1299, 02/2013, Volume 122, Issue 2, pp. 247 - 257
Determining how assembly rules (e.g. limiting similarity, environmental filtering and neutrality) shape community structure along environmental gradients and... 
SPECIES-DIVERSITY | BIODIVERSITY | SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL | NULL MODELS | DETERMINANTS | SOUTHERN BRAZIL | ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES | PHYLOGENETIC STRUCTURE | ECOLOGY | REDUNDANCY | LIMITING SIMILARITY | Trawling | Environmental aspects | Estuaries | Habitats | Fish
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3. Full Text Revisiting the role of dissimilarity of host communities in driving dissimilarity of ectoparasite assemblages: non-linear vs linear approach
by Van Der Mescht, Luther and Khokhlova, Irina S and Warburton, Elizabeth M and Krasnov, Boris R
Parasitology, ISSN 0031-1820, 09/2017, Volume 144, Issue 10, pp. 1365 - 1374
We revisited the role of dissimilarity of host assemblages in shaping dissimilarity of flea assemblages using a non-linear approach. Generalized dissimilarity... 
spatial scale | mammals | generalized dissimilarity modelling | fleas | biogeographic realms | SCALE-DEPENDENCE | NEW-SOUTH-WALES | GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION | SPECIES COMPOSITION | BETA DIVERSITY | GLOBAL PATTERNS | NEGEV DESERT | FLEAS SIPHONAPTERA | SMALL MAMMALS | SPATIAL TURNOVER | PARASITOLOGY | Animals | Models, Biological | Parasitology - methods | Siphonaptera - physiology | Mammals - parasitology | Host-Parasite Interactions | Phylogeny | Biodiversity | Geography | Spatial discrimination | Biogeography | Data processing | Ecology | Parasites | Composition effects | Generalized linear models | Studies | Phylogenetics | Small mammals | Community composition
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4. Full Text Functional diversity through the mean trait dissimilarity: resolving shortcomings with existing paradigms and algorithms
by de Bello, Francesco and Carmona, Carlos P and Lepš, Jan and Szava-Kovats, Robert and Pärtel, Meelis
Oecologia, ISSN 0029-8549, 4/2016, Volume 180, Issue 4, pp. 933 - 940
While an increasing number of indices for estimating the functional trait diversity of biological communities are being proposed, there is a growing demand by... 
Life Sciences | Hydrology/Water Resources | Biodiversity indices | Trait variance | Assembly rules | Ecology | Phylogenetic diversity | Plant Sciences | Community | SPECIES-DIVERSITY | UNIFIED APPROACH | MULTIPLE TRAITS | FRAMEWORK | ECOLOGY | INDEXES | Ecology - standards | Phenotype | Algorithms | Biodiversity | Models, Biological
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5. Full Text Changes in taxonomic and phylogenetic dissimilarity among four subtropical forest communities during 30 years of restoration
by Yu, Qingshui and Rao, Xingquan and Ouyang, Shengnan and Xu, Yong and Hanif, Abu and Ni, Zhuang and Sun, Dan and He, Dan and Shen, Weijun
Forest Ecology and Management, ISSN 0378-1127, 01/2019, Volume 432, pp. 983 - 990
Enhancement and conservation of biodiversity in recovering communities is one of the primary goals of forest ecology and restoration. To achieve a better... 
Community assembly | Taxonomic dissimilarity | Plantation | Restoration | Phylogenetic dissimilarity | SUCCESSION EVIDENCE | NICHES | TAXA | COMPETITIVE-EXCLUSION | ALIEN PLANTS | DARWINS NATURALIZATION HYPOTHESIS | VEGETATION DYNAMICS | DIVERSITY | FORESTRY | SIMILARITY | Biological diversity conservation | Ecosystems | Plantations | Stochastic processes | Forest ecology | Forest management | Ecological restoration | Phylogeny | Biological diversity
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6. Full Text Gene content dissimilarity for subclassification of highly similar microbial strains
by Tu, Qichao and Lin, Lu
BMC Genomics, ISSN 1471-2164, 08/2016, Volume 17, Issue 1, p. 647
Background: Identification and classification of highly similar microbial strains is a challenging issue in microbiology, ecology and evolutionary biology.... 
Genomic fluidity | Microbial subclassification | Highly similar strains | Gene content dissimilarity | SEQUENCES | S-MITIS | SPECIES DEFINITION | ESCHERICHIA-COLI | BACTERIAL GENOMES | STREPTOCOCCUS-PNEUMONIAE | EVOLUTION | BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY | GENETICS & HEREDITY | GENOME PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS | PROKARYOTES | ENTEROBACTERIACEAE | Computational Biology - methods | Metagenomics - methods | Enterobacteriaceae - genetics | RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics | DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic | Databases, Nucleic Acid | Metagenome | Cluster Analysis | Enterobacteriaceae - classification | Genome, Microbial | Microorganisms | Evolutionary biology | Analysis | Genotype | Hybridization | Research | Identification and classification
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7. Full Text Bacterial community dissimilarity between the surface and subsurface soils equals horizontal differences over several kilometers in the western Tibetan Plateau
by Chu, Haiyan and Sun, Huaibo and Tripathi, Binu M and Adams, Jonathan M and Huang, Rong and Zhang, Yangjian and Shi, Yu
Environmental Microbiology, ISSN 1462-2912, 05/2016, Volume 18, Issue 5, pp. 1523 - 1533
Summary Many studies have investigated patterns in the near‐surface soil microbial community over large spatial scales. However, less is known about variation... 
CALIFORNIA GRASSLAND | MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | BIOGEOGRAPHY | ORGANIC-CARBON | BIOMASS | PHYLOGENETIC STRUCTURE | PATTERNS | MICROBIOLOGY | BETA-DIVERSITY | 16S RIBOSOMAL-RNA | Soil - classification | Nitrogen - analysis | Soil Microbiology | Soil - chemistry | Bacteria - classification | Carbon - analysis | Phylogeny | Tibet | Bacteria - genetics | Soils | Analysis | Soil microbiology | Herbivores
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8. Full Text Inferring and Validating Horizontal Gene Transfer Events Using Bipartition Dissimilarity
by Alix Boc and Hervé Philippe and Vladimir Makarenkov
Systematic Biology, ISSN 1063-5157, 3/2010, Volume 59, Issue 2, pp. 195 - 211
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is one of the main mechanisms driving the evolution of microorganisms. Its accurate identification is one of the major... 
Leaves | Biological taxonomies | Algorithms | Minimization of cost | Genes | Plant roots | Phylogenetics | Evolution | Phylogeny | Topology | Phylogenetic tree | Quartet distance | Least squares | Bipartition dissimilarity | Bootstrap analysis | Robinson and Foulds topological distance | Horizontal gene transfer | bootstrap analysis | SUBSTITUTION | phylogenetic tree | MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD | quartet distance | PHYLOGENETIC NETWORKS | ALGORITHMS | SIMULATION | horizontal gene transfer | RATES | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | TREES | GENOMES | least squares | HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS | SEQUENCE EVOLUTION | Data Interpretation, Statistical | Classification - methods | Models, Genetic | Gene Transfer, Horizontal - genetics | Evolution, Molecular
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9. Full Text A guide through a family of phylogenetic dissimilarity measures among sites
by Pavoine, Sandrine
Oikos, ISSN 0030-1299, 12/2016, Volume 125, Issue 12, pp. 1719 - 1732
Ecological studies have now gone beyond measures of species turnover towards measures of phylogenetic and functional dissimilarity. This change of perspective... 
BIODIVERSITY | SIMILARITY INDEXES | FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY | HILL NUMBERS | COMMUNITY | COEFFICIENTS | FRAMEWORK | PATTERNS | ECOLOGY | BETA-DIVERSITY | METACOMMUNITY PHYLOGENETICS | Phylogeny | Phylogenetics | Bats | Evolution | Biodiversity and Ecology | Environmental Sciences
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10. Full Text Invaders among locals: Alien species decrease phylogenetic and functional diversity while increasing dissimilarity among native community members
by Loiola, Priscilla P and Bello, Francesco and Chytrý, Milan and Götzenberger, Lars and Carmona, Carlos Pérez and Pyšek, Petr and Lososová, Zdeňka and Swenson, Nathan
Journal of Ecology, ISSN 0022-0477, 11/2018, Volume 106, Issue 6, pp. 2230 - 2241
Plant invasions can drastically change the structure of native communities, but it is not fully understood whether alien species occupy phylogenetic and... 
functional diversity | Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis | niche differentiation | functional traits | phylogenetic diversity | environmental filtering | invasion ecology | community trait means | METAANALYSIS | PLANT INVASIONS | DARWINS NATURALIZATION CONUNDRUM | PLANT SCIENCES | EUROPEAN FLORA | RELATEDNESS | DATABASE | Darwin's naturalization hypothesis | FRAMEWORK | ECOLOGY | INVASION SUCCESS | TRAITS | ECOSYSTEMS | Evolution | Phylogeny | Niche (Ecology) | Indigenous peoples | Introduced species | Filtration | Habitats | Communities | Terrestrial environments | Plant communities | Plant populations | Biodiversity | Variance analysis | Lacunas | Species diversity | Invasive species | Vegetation | Phylogenetics | Indigenous species | Habitat | Herbivores | Community | Native species
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11. Full Text Compositional and phylogenetic dissimilarity of host communities drives dissimilarity of ectoparasite assemblages: Geographical variation and scale-dependence
by Krasnov, Boris R and Mouillot, David and Khokhlova, Irina S and Shenbrot, Georgy I and Poulin, Robert
Parasitology, ISSN 0031-1820, 03/2012, Volume 139, Issue 3, pp. 338 - 347
We tested the hypothesis that compositional and/or phylogenetic dissimilarity of host assemblages affect compositional and/or phylogenetic dissimilarity of... 
ectoparasites | faunal history | mammalian hosts | phylogenetic community dissimilarity | spatial scale | SPECIES COMPOSITION | BETA DIVERSITY | PATTERNS | PARASITE COMMUNITIES | DISTANCE DECAY | COSPECIATION | SPATIAL VARIATION | SMALL MAMMALIAN HOSTS | SIMILARITY | PARASITOLOGY | FLEA ASSEMBLAGES | Regression Analysis | Animals | Tropical Climate | Arctic Regions | Biota | Phylogeography | Siphonaptera - physiology | Mammals - parasitology | Host-Parasite Interactions | Phylogeny | Biodiversity | Population Dynamics | Geographical variations
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