What does the geography of parthenogenesis teach us about sex?

Amateur photographs reveal population history of a colonial seabird

(2016) Jonas Hentati-Sundberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic Exchange among Bdelloid Rotifers Is More Likely Due to Horizontal Gene Transfer Than to Meiotic Sex

(2016) Nicolas Debortoli et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Expanding population edges: theories, traits, and trade-offs

(2016) Angela Chuang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Extreme genetic diversity in asexual grass thrips populations

(2016) A. Fontcuberta García-Cuenca et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Androgenesis: where males hijack eggs to clone themselves

(2016) Tanja Schwander et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Expansion Load and the Evolutionary Dynamics of a Species Range

(2015) Stephan Peischl et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Geographic range size is predicted by plant mating system

(2015) Dena Grossenbacher et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

On the evolutionary interplay between dispersal and local adaptation in heterogeneous environments

(2015) Andrew Berdahl et al.   EVOLUTION

Life history traits and reproductive mode of the tardigrade Acutuncus antarcticus under laboratory conditions: strategies to colonize the Antarctic environment

(2015) Tiziana Altiero et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Automixis in Artemia: solving a century-old controversy

(2015) O. Nougué et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The scope of Baker's law

(2015) John R. Pannell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Does the avoidance of sexual costs increase fitness in asexual invaders?

(2015) Claus-Peter Stelzer   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sex

(2014) Jussi Lehtonen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

ON THE EVOLUTION OF MIGRATION IN HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS

(2014) François Blanquart et al.   EVOLUTION

The contrasting effects of genome size, chromosome number and ploidy level on plant invasiveness: a global analysis

(2014) Maharaj K. Pandit et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Sexual reproduction and genetic exchange in parasitic protists

(2014) GARETH D. WEEDALL et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Ecological and phylogenetic approaches for diversification of apogamous ferns in Japan

(2014) Takayuki Tanaka et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Unravelling the Paradox of Loss of Genetic Variation during Invasion: Superclones May Explain the Success of a Clonal Invader

(2014) Valerie Caron et al.   PLoS One

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

(2014) C. Violle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic Control of Contagious Asexuality in the Pea Aphid

(2014) Julie Jaquiéry et al.   PLoS Genetics

Laboratory generation of new parthenogenetic lineages supports contagious parthenogenesis inArtemia

(2014) Marta Maccari et al.   PeerJ

New approaches for unravelling reassortment pathways

(2013) Victoria Svinti et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The distribution of sexual reproduction of the geographic parthenogen Eucypris virens (Crustacea: Ostracoda) matches environmental gradients in a temporary lake

(2013) O. Schmit et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Geographical parthenogenesis and population genetic structure in the alpine species Ranunculus kuepferi (Ranunculaceae)

(2013) A-C Cosendai et al.   HEREDITY

Linking present environment and the segregation of reproductive modes (geographical parthenogenesis) inEucypris virens(Crustacea: Ostracoda)

(2013) Olivier Schmit et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Higher rates of sex evolve underK-selection

(2013) L. Becks et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genomic and epigenetic insights into the molecular bases of heterosis

(2013) Z. Jeffrey Chen   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Is self-fertilization an evolutionary dead end?

(2013) Boris Igic et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolutionary and ecological implications of sexual parasitism

(2013) Jussi Lehtonen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Bet-hedging-a triple trade-off between means, variances and correlations

(2012) Jostein Starrfelt et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Prokaryotic Sex: Eukaryote-like Qualities of Recombination in an Archaean Lineage

(2012) Frederick M. Cohan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sex and stochasticity affect range expansion of experimental invasions

(2012) Tom E.X. Miller et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

LARGE POPULATION SIZE PREDICTS THE DISTRIBUTION OF ASEXUALITY IN SCALE INSECTS

(2012) Laura Ross et al.   EVOLUTION

THE MAINTENANCE OF OBLIGATE SEX IN FINITE, STRUCTURED POPULATIONS SUBJECT TO RECURRENT BENEFICIAL AND DELETERIOUS MUTATION

(2012) Matthew Hartfield et al.   EVOLUTION

Inbreeding and outbreeding depression in geographical parthenogensHeterocypris incongruensandEucypris virens(Crustacea: Ostracoda)

(2012) V. Rossi et al.   ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The benefits of interpopulation hybridization diminish with increasing divergence of small populations

(2012) N. Pekkala et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

First evidence of self-fertilization in a marine microturbellarian (Platyhelminthes)

(2012) Marco Casu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Sex at the origin: an Asian population of the rice blast fungusMagnaporthe oryzaereproduces sexually

(2012) DOUNIA SALEH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Reproductive clonality of pathogens: A perspective on pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasitic protozoa

(2012) M. Tibayrenc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Apomixis is not prevalent in subnival to nival plants of the European Alps

(2011) Elvira Hörandl et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions

(2011) M. te Beest et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Desiccation-tolerance in bdelloid rotifers facilitates spatiotemporal escape from multiple species of parasitic fungi

(2011) CHRISTOPHER G. WILSON   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Using Parthenogenetic Lineages to Identify Advantages of Sex

(2011) Maurine Neiman et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Applications and Implications of Neutral versus Non-neutral Markers in Molecular Ecology

(2011) Heather Kirk et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes

(2011) Angela T. Moles et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The latitudinal herbivory-defence hypothesis takes a detour on the map

(2011) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Self-compatibility and plant invasiveness: Comparing species in native and invasive ranges

(2011) Theodora Petanidou et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Laboratory synthesis of an independently reproducing vertebrate species

(2011) A. A. Lutes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The many costs of sex

(2011) Jussi Lehtonen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Assessing the evidence for latitudinal gradients in plant defence and herbivory

(2010) Angela T. Moles et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Genome Structure of Bdelloid Rotifers: Shaped by Asexuality or Desiccation?

(2010) E. A. Gladyshev et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Geographic parthenogenesis in a consumer-resource model for sexual reproduction

(2010) Yixian Song et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Higher rates of sex evolve in spatially heterogeneous environments

(2010) Lutz Becks et al.   NATURE

Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions?

(2009) Douglas W. Schemske et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Evolution and Ecology of Species Range Limits

(2009) Jason P. Sexton et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Geographic Mosaic of Sex and the Red Queen

(2009) Kayla C. King et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

FITNESS CONSEQUENCES OF SEX-SPECIFIC SELECTION

(2009) Tim Connallon et al.   EVOLUTION

Reproductive system, social organization, human disturbance and ecological dominance in native populations of the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata

(2009) JULIEN FOUCAUD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Identifying glacial refugia in a geographic parthenogen using palaeoclimate modelling and phylogeography: the New Zealand stick insectArgosarchus horridus(White)

(2009) THOMAS R. BUCKLEY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Can differences in autonomous selfing ability explain differences in range size among sister-taxa pairs ofCollinsia(Plantaginaceae)? An extension of Baker's Law

(2009) April M. Randle et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Understanding the geographic distributions of apomictic plants: a case for a pluralistic approach

(2009) Elvira Hörandl et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Dangerously few liaisons: a review of mate-finding Allee effects

(2009) Joanna Gascoigne et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Geographic range limits: achieving synthesis

(2009) K. J Gaston   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of self-fertility in apomictic plants

(2009) Elvira Hörandl   SEXUAL PLANT REPRODUCTION

Adaptation to Marginal Habitats

(2008) Tadeusz J. Kawecki   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Localization of the Genetic Determinants of Meiosis Suppression in Daphnia pulex

(2008) M. Lynch et al.   GENETICS

Genetic variation across species’ geographical ranges: the central–marginal hypothesis and beyond

(2008) C. G. ECKERT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Twigs on the tree of life? Neutral and selective models for integrating macroevolutionary patterns with microevolutionary processes in the analysis of asexuality

(2008) TANJA SCHWANDER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Resource depletion and colonization: A comparison between parthenogenetic and sexual Collembola species

(2008) Masoumeh Chahartaghi et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

A high incidence of parthenogenesis in agricultural pests

(2008) A. A Hoffmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES