Evolution of sex


A bdelliod rotifer
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Lecture bibliography

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Bell, G. 1982. The masterpiece of nature. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, USA.

De Visser, J. A. G. M., and S. F. Elena. 2007. The evolution of sex: Empirical insights into the roles of epistasis and drift. Nature Reviews Genetics 8: 139-149.

Goddard, M. R., H. C. J. Godfray, and A. Burt. 2005. Sex increases the efficacy of natural selection in experimental yeast populations. Nature 434: 636-640.

Hamilton, W. D. 1980. Sex versus non-sex parasite. Oikos 35: 282-290.

Judson, O. P. and B. B. Normark. 1996. Ancient asexual scandals. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 11: 41-46.

Kaltz, O. and G. Bell. 2002. The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas. XII. Repeated sexual episodes increases rates of adaptation to novel environments. Evolution 56: 1743-1753.

Levin, B. R. 1988. The evolution of sex in bacteria. Pages 194-211 In R. E. Michod and B. R. Levin (eds.) The evolution of sex. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass., USA.

Maynard Smith, J. 1984. The ecology of sex. Pages 201-221 In J. R. Krebs and N. B. Davies (eds.). Behavioural ecology, 2nd ed. Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

Maynard Smith, J. 1988. The evolution of recombination. Pages 106-125 In R. E. Michod and B. R. Levin (eds.) The evolution of sex. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass., USA.

McDonald, M. J. , D. P. Rice, & M. M. Desai. 2016. Sex speeds adaptation by altering the dynamics of molecular evolution. Nature 531: 233-236.

Otto, S. P. and Y. Michalakis. 1998. The evolution of recombination in changing environments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13: 145-151.

Otto, S. P. and T. Lenormand. 2002. Resolving the paradox or sex and recombination. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 252-261.

Otto, S. P. and S. L. Nuismer. 2004. Species interactions and the evolution of sex. Science 304: 1018-1020.

Redfield, R. 2001. Do bacteria have sex? Nature Reviews Genetics 2:634-639.

Rice, W. R. 2002. Experimental tests of the adaptive significance of sexual recombination. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 241-251.

Welch, D. B. M., and M. Meselson. 2000. Evidence for the evolution of bdelloid rotifers without sexual reproduction or genetic exchange. Science, 288: 1211-1215.

 

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