Meiotic recombination is a fundamental feature of sexually reproducing species. It is often
required for proper chromosome segregation and plays important role in adaptation and the …

Recombination, the exchange of DNA between maternal and paternal chromosomes during
meiosis, is an essential feature of sexual reproduction in nearly all multicellular organisms …

Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces sha** the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

Sexual reproduction and recombination are ubiquitous. However, a large body of theoretical
work has shown that these processes should only evolve under a restricted set of conditions …

Various approaches have been developed to evaluate the consequences of spatial structure
on evolution in subdivided populations. This book is both a review and new synthesis of …

“One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published
in recent years.”—The Economist The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and …

When beneficial mutations are rare, they accumulate by a series of selective sweeps. But
when they are common, many beneficial mutations will occur before any can fix, so there will …

Sexual reproduction entails a number of costs, and yet the majority of eukaryotes engage in
sex, at least occasionally. In this article, I review early models to explain the evolution of sex …

The role of natural selection in the evolution of adaptive phenotypes has undergone
constant probing by evolutionary biologists, employing both theoretical and empirical …

The “cost of domestication” hypothesis posits that the process of domesticating wild species
can result in an increase in the number, frequency, and/or proportion of deleterious genetic …