Evolution of sex: Using experimental genomics to select among competing theories

Evolution: The End of an Ancient Asexual Scandal

(2016) Tanja Schwander   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Eco-evolutionary feedback promotes Red Queen dynamics and selects for sex in predator populations

(2016) Julia Haafke et al.   EVOLUTION

An Evolving Genetic Architecture Interacts with Hill–Robertson Interference to Determine the Benefit of Sex

(2016) Alexander O. B. Whitlock et al.   GENETICS

Sex speeds adaptation by altering the dynamics of molecular evolution

(2016) Michael J. McDonald et al.   NATURE

An Evolving Genetic Architecture Interacts with Hill–Robertson Interference to Determine the Benefit of Sex

(2016) Alexander O. B. Whitlock et al.   GENETICS

Crowded growth leads to the spontaneous evolution of semistable coexistence in laboratory yeast populations

(2015) Evgeni M. Frenkel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global epistasis makes adaptation predictable despite sequence-level stochasticity

(2014) S. Kryazhimskiy et al.   SCIENCE

Pervasive genetic hitchhiking and clonal interference in forty evolving yeast populations

(2013) Gregory I. Lang et al.   NATURE

Sex enhances adaptation by unlinking beneficial from detrimental mutations in experimental yeast populations

(2012) Jeremy C Gray et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

EVOLUTIONARY RESCUE OF SEXUAL AND ASEXUAL POPULATIONS IN A DETERIORATING ENVIRONMENT

(2012) Josianne Lachapelle et al.   EVOLUTION

The red queen coupled with directional selection favours the evolution of sex

(2012) E. E. HODGSON et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Sex Is Favoured During Adaptation to New Environments

(2012) Lutz Becks et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Negative Epistasis Between Beneficial Mutations in an Evolving Bacterial Population

(2011) A. I. Khan et al.   SCIENCE

Diminishing Returns Epistasis Among Beneficial Mutations Decelerates Adaptation

(2011) H.-H. Chou et al.   SCIENCE

Running with the Red Queen: Host-Parasite Coevolution Selects for Biparental Sex

(2011) L. T. Morran et al.   SCIENCE

The effect of sex on the mean and variance of fitness in facultatively sexual rotifers

(2010) L. BECKS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Higher rates of sex evolve in spatially heterogeneous environments

(2010) Lutz Becks et al.   NATURE

The Evolutionary Enigma of Sex

(2009) Sarah P. Otto   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Why Are Sex and Recombination So Common?

(2008) Lilach Hadany et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The Dynamic Nature of Apomixis in the Angiosperms

(2008) Jeannette Whitton et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Molecular characterization of clonal interference during adaptive evolution in asexual populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2008) Katy C Kao et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A genome-wide view of the spectrum of spontaneous mutations in yeast

(2008) M. Lynch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA