ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2016
The evolution of meiotic sex and its alternatives.
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- Gain and Loss of Heterozygosity in the Genome of the Asexual Nematode Halicephalobus mephisto.Journal of molecular evolution · 2025Article
- "It's been a Process": A Multiple Case Study of Biology Instructor Efforts to Reform their Sex and Gender Curriculum to be More Inclusive of Students with Queer Genders and Intersex Students.CBE life sciences education · 2024Article
- A novel strategy to study apomixis, automixis, and autogamy in plants.Plant reproduction · 2024Article
- Evidence for feminized genetic males in a flea beetle using newly identified X-linked markers.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Apomixis and the paradox of sex in plants.Annals of botany · 2024Review
- Re-imagining Reproduction: The Queer Possibilities of Plants.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Article
- Sperm-dependent asexual species and their role in ecology and evolution.Ecology and evolution · 2023Review
- Phenotypic plasticity in the monoclonal marbled crayfish is associated with very low genetic diversity but pronounced epigenetic diversity.Current zoology · 2023Article
- DNA repair during nonreductional meiosis in the asexual rotiferScience advances · 2022Article
- The Transcriptome and Proteome Networks of Malignant Tumours Reveal Atavistic Attractors of Polyploidy-Related Asexual Reproduction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Gene transcriptional profiles in gonads of Bacillus taxa (Phasmida) with different cytological mechanisms of automictic parthenogenesis.Zoological letters · 2022Article
- Repeat sequences limit the effectiveness of lateral gene transfer and favored the evolution of meiotic sex in early eukaryotes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The foundational framework of tumors: Gametogenesis, p53, and cancer.Seminars in cancer biology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Meiosis is an ancestral, highly conserved process in eukaryotic life cycles, and for all eukaryotes the shared component of sexual reproduction. The benefits and functions of meiosis, however, are still under discussion, especially considering the costs of meiotic sex. To get a novel view on this old problem, we filter out the most conserved elements of meiosis itself by reviewing the various modifications and alterations of modes of reproduction. Our rationale is that the indispensable steps of meiosis for viability of offspring would be maintained by strong selection, while dispensable steps would be variable. We review evolutionary origin and processes in normal meiosis, restitutional meiosis, polyploidization and the alterations of meiosis in forms of uniparental reproduction (apomixis, apomictic parthenogenesis, automixis, selfing) with a focus on plants and animals. This overview suggests that homologue pairing, double-strand break formation and homologous recombinational repair at prophase I are the least dispensable elements, and they are more likely optimized for repair of oxidative DNA damage rather than for recombination. Segregation, ploidy reduction and also a biparental genome contribution can be skipped for many generations. The evidence supports the theory that the primary function of meiosis is DNA restoration rather than recombination.
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