Abstract The Arachnida subclass of Acari comprises many harmful pests that threaten
agriculture as well as animal health, including herbivorous spider mites, the bee parasite …

Insects are major contributors to our understanding of the interaction between transposable
elements (TEs) and their hosts, owing to seminal discoveries, as well as to the growing …

Root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) exhibit a diversity of reproductive modes
ranging from obligatory sexual to fully asexual reproduction. Intriguingly, the most …

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 …

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

Bdelloid rotifers are a class of microscopic invertebrates that have existed for millions of
years apparently without sex or meiosis. They inhabit a variety of temporary and permanent …

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

Background Trichogrammatids are minute parasitoid wasps that develop within other insect
eggs. They are less than half a millimeter long, smaller than some protozoans. The …

While the evolutionary mechanisms driving eukaryote genome size evolution are still
debated, repeated element content appears to be crucial. Here, we reconstructed the …

Parthenogenesis is asexual reproduction without any required participation from males and,
as such, is a null model for sexual reproduction. In a comparative context, we can expand …