ArticleBiology letters2005
Selection by parasites may increase host recombination frequency.
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- Variation in recombination frequency and distribution across eukaryotes: patterns and processes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
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- Causes and consequences of crossing-over evidenced via a high-resolution recombinational landscape of the honey bee.Genome biology · 2015Article
- Different effects of paternal trans-generational immune priming on survival and immunity in step and genetic offspring.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
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- Temporal dynamics of outcrossing and host mortality rates in host-pathogen experimental coevolution.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2013Article
- Coevolving parasites and population size shape the evolution of mating behaviour.BMC evolutionary biology · 2013Article
- Evolutionary molecular medicine.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2012Review
- Antagonistic experimental coevolution with a parasite increases host recombination frequency.BMC evolutionary biology · 2012Article
- Antagonistic coevolution with parasites maintains host genetic diversity: an experimental test.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2011Article
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Abstract
Meiotic recombination destroys successful genotypes and it is therefore thought to evolve only under a very limited set of conditions. Here, we experimentally show that recombination rates across two linkage groups of the host, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, increase with exposure to the microsporidian parasite, Nosema whitei, particularly when parasites were allowed to coevolve with their hosts. Selection by randomly varied parasites resulted in smaller effects, while directional selection for insecticide resistance initially reduced recombination slightly. These results, at least tentatively, suggest that short-term benefits of recombination--and thus the evolution of sex--may be related to parasitism.
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