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Allele Sharing and Evidence for Sexuality in a Mitochondrial Clade of Bdelloid Rotifers.
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- Bdelloid rotifers deploy horizontally acquired biosynthetic genes against a fungal pathogen.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Sperm-dependent asexual species and their role in ecology and evolution.Ecology and evolution · 2023Review
- Evidence for cryptic sex in parthenogenetic stick insects of the genusProceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- On the evolution of variation in sexual reproduction through the prism of eukaryotic microbes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Review
- Population Genomic Analyses Suggest a Hybrid Origin, Cryptic Sexuality, and Decay of Genes Regulating Seed Development for the Putatively Strictly AsexualInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- DNA repair during nonreductional meiosis in the asexual rotiferScience advances · 2022Article
- "Jack-of-all-trades" is parthenogenetic.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Genomic signature of sexual reproduction in the bdelloid rotifer Macrotrachella quadricornifera.Genetics · 2022Article
- Chromosome-level genome assembly reveals homologous chromosomes and recombination in asexual rotiferScience advances · 2021Article
- Haplotype divergence supports long-term asexuality in the oribatid miteProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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- Genomic signatures of recombination in a natural population of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Signatures of the Evolution of Parthenogenesis and Cryptobiosis in the Genomes of Panagrolaimid Nematodes.iScience · 2019Article
- Evolutionary diversity and novelty of DNA repair genes in asexual Bdelloid rotifers.BMC evolutionary biology · 2018Article
- Comparative genomics of bdelloid rotifers: Insights from desiccating and nondesiccating species.PLoS biology · 2018Article
- Maternal Inheritance of a Single Somatic Animal Cell Displayed by the Bacteriocyte in the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci.Current biology : CB · 2018Article
- Effective purifying selection in ancient asexual oribatid mites.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Genome analysis of Diploscapter coronatus: insights into molecular peculiarities of a nematode with parthenogenetic reproduction.BMC genomics · 2017Article
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Abstract
Rotifers of Class Bdelloidea are common freshwater invertebrates of ancient origin whose apparent asexuality has posed a challenge to the view that sexual reproduction is essential for long-term evolutionary success in eukaryotes and to hypotheses for the advantage of sex. The possibility nevertheless exists that bdelloids reproduce sexually under unknown or inadequately investigated conditions. Although certain methods of population genetics offer definitive means for detecting infrequent or atypical sex, they have not previously been applied to bdelloid rotifers. We conducted such a test with bdelloids belonging to a mitochondrial clade of Macrotrachela quadricornifera. This revealed a striking pattern of allele sharing consistent with sexual reproduction and with meiosis of an atypical sort, in which segregation occurs without requiring homologous chromosome pairs.
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