ReviewTrends in genetics : TIG2012
Causes and consequences of the evolution of reproductive mode in Caenorhabditis nematodes.
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- T2T genomes ofGenome research · 2026Article
- A Male Expressed Copulatory Plug Increases Female Fertility inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The Tree of Sex consortium: a global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2025Article
- Pervasive Conservation of Intron Number and Other Genetic Elements Revealed by a Chromosome-level Genome Assembly of the Hyper-polymorphic Nematode Caenorhabditis brenneri.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Life history in Caenorhabditis elegans: from molecular genetics to evolutionary ecology.Genetics · 2024Review
- Pervasive conservation of intron number and other genetic elements revealed by a chromosome-level genomic assembly of the hyper-polymorphic nematodebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Genomic diversity landscapes in outcrossing and selfing Caenorhabditis nematodes.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
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- Reprogramming the topology of the nociceptive circuit in C. elegans reshapes sexual behavior.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
- Evolution of sexual systems, sex chromosomes and sex-linked gene transcription in flatworms and roundworms.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Sex or cannibalism: Polyphenism and kin recognition control social action strategies in nematodes.Science advances · 2021Article
- Fisher vs. the Worms: Extraordinary Sex Ratios in Nematodes and the Mechanisms that Produce Them.Cells · 2021Review
- Complex pleiotropic genetic architecture of evolved heat stress and oxidative stress resistance in the nematode Caenorhabditis remanei.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Article
- Natural Variation and Genetic Determinants ofGenetics · 2019Article
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- Evolution of sex ratio through gene loss.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- A large close relative of C. elegans is slow-developing but not long-lived.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Does senescence promote fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans by causing death?Ageing research reviews · 2019Review
- From "the Worm" to "the Worms" and Back Again: The Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Nematodes.Genetics · 2018Review
- Standing genetic variation in a tissue-specific enhancer underlies selfing-syndrome evolution in Capsella.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
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Abstract
Reproduction is directly connected to the suite of developmental and physiological mechanisms that enable it, but how it occurs also has consequences for the genetics, ecology and longer term evolutionary potential of a lineage. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, anatomically female XX worms can self-fertilize their eggs. This ability evolved recently and in multiple Caenorhabditis lineages from male-female ancestors, providing a model for examining both the developmental causes and longer term consequences of a novel, convergently evolved reproductive mode. Here, we review recent work that implicates translation control in the evolution of XX spermatogenesis, with different selfing lineages possessing both reproducible and idiosyncratic features. We also discuss the consequences of selfing, which leads to a rapid loss of variation and relaxation of natural and sexual selection on mating-related traits, and may ultimately put selfing lineages at a higher risk of extinction.
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