ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023
Evidence for cryptic sex in parthenogenetic stick insects of the genus
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Loss, persistence and reversal of phenotypic traits.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Rare sex punctuates strict asexual reproduction in the clonal raider ant,bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Genome evolution in parthenogenetic nematodes shaped by chromosome rearrangements and introgression.Genome research · 2026Article
- Using Genomic Data to Infer Evolutionary Processes in the Asexual ParasitoidEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Sexual conflict as a constraint on asexual reproduction: an empirical review.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- The Tree of Sex consortium: a global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2025Article
- No Mate, No Problem: Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Parthenogenesis in the Cosmopolitan Earthworm Aporrectodea trapezoides (Annelida, Clitellata).Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Interplay of asexual and sexual reproduction in bifunctional insects.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Lack of successful sexual reproduction suggests the irreversible parthenogenesis in a stick insect.Ecology · 2025Article
- Parthenogenetic Stick Insects Exhibit Signatures of Preservation in the Molecular Architecture of Male Reproduction.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Phylogeographical evidence for historical long-distance dispersal in the flightless stick insectProceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Evidence for cryptic sex in parthenogenetic stick insects of the genusProceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Obligately parthenogenetic species are expected to be short lived since the lack of sex and recombination should translate into a slower adaptation rate and increased accumulation of deleterious alleles. Some, however, are thought to have been reproducing without males for millions of years. It is not clear how these old parthenogens can escape the predicted long-term costs of parthenogenesis, but an obvious explanation is cryptic sex. In this study, we screen for signatures of cryptic sex in eight populations of four parthenogenetic species of
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