The marine red alga Porphyra is an important marine crop, worth∼ US $1.3 billion per year.
Cultivation research now includes farm ecology, breeding, strain conservation and new net …

Meiosis is a key event of sexual life cycles in eukaryotes. Its mechanistic details have been
uncovered in several model organisms, and most of its essential features have received …

Speciation can be gradual or sudden and involve few or many genetic changes. Inferring the
processes generating such patterns is difficult, and may require consideration of emergent …

The persistence of sexual reproduction in the face of competition from asexual invaders is
more likely if asexual lineages are produced infrequently or have low fitness. The generation …

Insects display a staggering diversity of mating and social behaviours. Studying these
systems provides insights into a wide range of evolutionary and behavioural questions, such …

A mysterious parthenogenetic cambarid crayfish (the Marmorkrebs) has been spreading
across the globe for the past decade. We compare this crayfish directly to two other …

Empirical and experimental studies reporting the probability that some females remain
unmated in field populations of insects (defined herein as mating failures) are reviewed in …

The shift from sexual reproduction to parthenogenesis has occurred repeatedly in animals,
but how the loss of sex affects genome evolution remains poorly understood. We generated …

The ability to reproduce is the key trait that distinguishes living organisms from inorganic
matter, and the strategies used to achieve successful reproduction are almost as diverse as …

In hexapods, unlike the majority of animals, development without fertilization is a common
phenomenon. They evolved a striking diversity of unisexual reproductive types that include a …