The Natural Biotic Environment of Caenorhabditis elegans

H Schulenburg, MA Félix - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Organisms evolve in response to their natural environment. Consideration of natural
ecological parameters are thus of key importance for our understanding of an organism's …

C. elegans outside the Petri dish

L Frézal, MA Félix - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has risen to the status of a top model organism for
biological research in the last fifty years. Among laboratory animals, this tiny nematode is …

Running with the Red Queen: host-parasite coevolution selects for biparental sex

LT Morran, OG Schmidt, IA Gelarden, RC Parrish… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Most organisms reproduce through outcrossing, even though it comes with substantial costs.
The Red Queen hypothesis proposes that selection from coevolving pathogens facilitates …

Recombinational Landscape and Population Genomics of Caenorhabditis elegans

MV Rockman, L Kruglyak - PLoS genetics, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Recombination rate and linkage disequilibrium, the latter a function of population genomic
processes, are the critical parameters for map** by linkage and association, and their …

Mutation load and rapid adaptation favour outcrossing over self-fertilization

LT Morran, MD Parmenter, PC Phillips - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
The tendency of organisms to reproduce by cross-fertilization despite numerous
disadvantages relative to self-fertilization is one of the oldest puzzles in evolutionary biology …

INBREEDING AND OUTBREEDING DEPRESSION IN CAENORHABDITIS NEMATODES

ES Dolgin, B Charlesworth, SE Baird, AD Cutter - Evolution, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans reproduces primarily by self-fertilization of
hermaphrodites, yet males are present at low frequencies in natural populations …

Outcrossing and the Maintenance of Males within C. elegans Populations

JL Anderson, LT Morran, PC Phillips - Journal of heredity, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Caenorhabditis elegans is an androdioecious nematode with both hermaphrodites and
males. Although males can potentially play an important role in avoiding inbreeding and …

Temporal Dynamics and Linkage Disequilibrium in Natural Caenorhabditis elegans Populations

A Barriere, MA Félix - Genetics, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Caenorhabditis elegans is a major laboratory model system yet a newcomer to the field of
population genetics, and relatively little is known of its biology in the wild. Recent studies of …

Experimental Evolution with Caenorhabditis Nematodes

H Teotónio, S Estes, PC Phillips, CF Baer - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The hermaphroditic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been one of the primary model
systems in biology since the 1970s, but only within the last two decades has this nematode …

Males, Outcrossing, and Sexual Selection in Caenorhabditis Nematodes

AD Cutter, LT Morran, PC Phillips - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Males of Caenorhabditis elegans provide a crucial practical tool in the laboratory, but, as the
rarer and more finicky sex, have not enjoyed the same depth of research attention as …