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Mating system
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Sexual conflict drives male manipulation of female postmating responses in Drosophila melanogaster
Laurent Keller, Brian Dennis Hollis
In many animals, females respond to mating with changes in physiology and behavior that are triggered by molecules transferred by males during mating. In Drosophila melanogaster, proteins in the seminal fluid are responsible for important female postmating ...
PNAS2019Male competition and the evolution of mating and ire-history traits in experimental populations of Aedes aegypti
Aedes aegypti is an important disease vector and a major target of reproductive control efforts. We manipulated the opportunity for sexual selection in populations of Ae. aegypti by controlling the number of males competing for a single female. Populations ...
ROYAL SOC2019Sexual selection shapes development and maturation rates in Drosophila
Laurent Keller, Brian Dennis Hollis
Explanations for the evolution of delayed maturity usually invoke trade-offs mediated by growth, but processes of reproductive maturation continue long after growth has ceased. Here, we tested whether sexual selection shapes the rate of posteclosion matura ...
Wiley2017No Scope for Social Modulation of Steroid Levels in a Year-Round Territorial Damselfish
Both latitude and mating system have been proposed to shape relationships between steroid hormone levels and social behavior. Recently it has been postulated that species with long lasting non-seasonal territorial behavior have low androgen responsiveness. ...
Wiley-Blackwell2015Transitions from reproductive systems governed by two self-incompatible loci to one in fungi
Self-incompatibility (SI), a reproductive system broadly present in plants, chordates, fungi, and protists, might be controlled by one or several multiallelic loci. How a transition in the number of SI loci can occur and the consequences of such events for ...
2013Evolution of uni- and bifactorial sexual compatibility systems in fungi
Mating systems, that is, whether organisms give rise to progeny by selfing, inbreeding or outcrossing, strongly affect important ecological and evolutionary processes. Large variations in mating systems exist in fungi, allowing the study of their origin an ...
Nature Publishing Group2013Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies
Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller
Division of labour is one of the most prominent features of social insects. The efficient allocation of individuals to different tasks requires dynamic adjustment in response to environmental perturbations. Theoretical models suggest that the colony-level ...
Springer Verlag2010The role of Schizosaccharomyces pombe dma1 in spore formation during meiosis
Viesturs Simanis, Andrea Krapp, Elena Cano
Meiosis is a specialised form of the cell cycle that gives rise to haploid gametes. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the products of meiosis are four spores, which are formed by encapsulation of the four meiosis II nuclei within the cytoplasm of the zygote pr ...
2010RAP-1 factor is necessary for DNA loop formation in vitro at the silent mating type locus HML
DNA fragments containing the silencers that flank the mating type genes at HML alpha are shown to bind specifically to the nuclear scaffold of yeast. The scaffold proteins are solubilized with urea and then renatured to form a soluble extract which allows ...
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