All species continuously evolve to adapt to changing environments. The genetic variation
that fosters such adaptation is caused by a plethora of mechanisms, including meiotic …

Explaining the selective forces that underlie different reproductive modes forms a major part
of evolution research. Many organisms are facultative sexuals, with the ability to reproduce …

Triploids are rare in nature because of difficulties in meiotic and gametogenic processes,
especially in vertebrates. The Carassius complex of cyprinid teleosts contains sexual …

The extreme rarity of asexual vertebrates in nature is generally explained by genomic decay
due to absence of meiotic recombination, thus leading to extinction of such lineages. We …

Despite much theoretical work, the molecular-genetic causes and evolutionary
consequences of asexuality remain largely undetermined. Asexual animal species are rare …

Sex strongly impacts genome evolution via recombination and segregation. In the absence
of these processes, haplotypes within lineages of diploid organisms are predicted to …

Knowledge of the genome-wide rate and spectrum of mutations is necessary to understand
the origin of disease and the genetic variation driving all evolutionary processes. Here, we …

Evolution without sex is predicted to impact genomes in numerous ways. Case studies of
individual parthenogenetic animals have reported peculiar genomic features that were …

Understanding the rates, spectra, and fitness effects of spontaneous mutations is
fundamental to answering key questions in evolution, molecular biology, disease genetics …

Emiliania huxleyi is the most abundant calcifying plankton in modern oceans with
substantial intraspecific genome variability and a biphasic life cycle involving sexual …