Individuals communicate information about their age, sex, social status, and recent life
history with other members of their species through the release of pheromones, chemical …

Parker, Baker, and Smith provided the first robust theory explaining why anisogamy evolves
in parallel in multicellular organisms. Anisogamy sets the stage for the emergence of …

Mating systems have profound effects on genetic diversity and compatibility. The convergent
evolution of self-fertilization in three Caenorhabditis species provides a powerful lens to …

Nematodes belong to one of the most diverse animal phyla. However, functional genomic
studies in nematodes, other than in a few species, have often been limited in their reliability …

The co-existence of males, females and hermaphrodites, a rare mating system known as
trioecy, has been considered as an evolutionarily transient state. In nematodes, androdioecy …

Trioecy, a mating system in which males, females and hermaphrodites co-exist, is a useful
system to investigate the origin and maintenance of alternative mating strategies. In the …

Sex pheromones facilitate reproduction by attracting potential mates and altering their
behavior and physiology. In C. elegans, males and hermaphrodites secrete similar blends of …

Androdioecy (the coexistence of males and hermaphrodites) is a rare mating system for
which the evolutionary dynamics are poorly understood. Here, we investigate the cottony …

Pheromones are chemical signals secreted by one individual that can affect the behaviors of
other individuals within the same species. Ascaroside is an evolutionarily conserved family …

The coexistence of different mating strategies, whereby a species can reproduce both by
selfing and outcrossing, is an evolutionary enigma. Theory predicts two predominant stable …