ReviewJournal of evolutionary biology2014
The ecology of sexual reproduction.
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- Primate Sex and Its Role in Pleasure, Dominance and Communication.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Genetic diversity and disease: The past, present, and future of an old idea.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
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- Direct evidence of sex and a hypothesis about meiosis in Symbiodiniaceae.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Reproduction in Trypanosomatids: Past and Present.Biology · 2021Review
- Fixation of allelic gene expression landscapes and expression bias pattern shape the transcriptome of the clonal Amazon molly.Genome research · 2021Article
- Males, Outcrossing, and Sexual Selection inGenetics · 2019Review
- Local parasite pressures and host genotype modulate epigenetic diversity in a mixed-mating fish.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
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- Abandoning the ship using sex, dispersal or dormancy: multiple escape routes from challenging conditions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Turnover in local parasite populations temporarily favors host outcrossing over self-fertilization during experimental evolution.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Clonal polymorphism and high heterozygosity in the celibate genome of the Amazon molly.Nature ecology & evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
Sexual reproduction is widely regarded as one of the major unexplained phenomena in biology. Nonetheless, while a general answer may remain elusive, considerable progress has been made in the last few decades. Here, we first review the genesis of, and support for, the major ecological hypotheses for biparental sexual reproduction. We then focus on the idea that host-parasite coevolution can favour cross-fertilization over uniparental forms of reproduction, as this hypothesis currently has the most support from natural populations. We also review the results from experimental evolution studies, which tend to show that exposure to novel environments can select for higher levels of sexual reproduction, but that sex decreases in frequency after populations become adapted to the previously novel conditions. In contrast, experimental coevolution studies suggest that host-parasite interactions can lead to the long-term persistence of sex. Taken together, the evidence from natural populations and from laboratory experiments point to antagonistic coevolution as a potent and possibly ubiquitous force of selection favouring cross-fertilization and recombination.
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