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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Converging or diverging? Shape coevolution between a sperm-dependent asexual and its sexual hosts.

Waldir M Berbel-Filho, Michael Tobler, Tyler Reich, Ayla Eghbalpour, Michael J Ryan, Katja Heubel, Francisco Garcia-De León, Ingo Schlupp

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Ancestral gene flow shaped the singular origin of the Amazon molly.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Waldir M Berbel-FilhoDepartment of Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6991-4685
Michael ToblerDepartment of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0326-0890
Tyler ReichSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.ORCID 0009-0001-6590-9800
Ayla EghbalpourSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
Michael J RyanDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6381-9545
Katja HeubelDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7946-5542
Francisco Garcia-De LeónLaboratorio de Genética para la Conservación, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas de Noroeste SC, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Ingo SchluppSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2460-5667

Funding

DAAD fellowshipDes Lee Collaborative Vision in Zoological StudiesDFG Heisenberg fellowshipNSF Division of Environmental Biology 0813783NSF Division of Environmental Biology 1916519
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asexual species, despite lacking recombination, can evolve in response to environmental changes and influence the evolutionary trajectory of coexisting sexual species. Gynogenesis, where asexual females rely on sperm from males of a different species, offers a unique perspective on the eco-evolutionary dynamics between asexual females and their sexual hosts. The Amazon molly,

Indexed as

Biological CoevolutionBiological EvolutionPoeciliaReproduction, AsexualAnimalsFemaleMaleMating Preference, AnimalSpermatozoaasexualitycoevolutiongynogenesismimicrynoveltyshape variationsperm-dependent parasitism

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PMID40592460
PMCPMC12213004

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