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Allard's argument versus Baker's contention for the adaptive significance of selfing in a hermaphroditic fishJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:18862-7. 2012..Thus, the adaptive significance of selfing apparently varies across hermaphroditic taxa...
Hemiplasy: a new term in the lexicon of phylogeneticsJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Syst Biol 57:503-7. 2008- Colloquium paper: three ambitious (and rather unorthodox) assignments for the field of biodiversity geneticsJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:11564-70. 2008..They also can open opportunities to educate the public about the many intellectual gifts and aesthetic marvels of the natural world... 
Evolutionary perspectives on hermaphroditism in fishesJ C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Sex Dev 3:152-63. 2009....- Colloquium paper: footprints of nonsentient design inside the human genomeJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:8969-76. 2010.... - Multiple mating and its relationship to alternative modes of gestation in male-pregnant versus female-pregnant fish speciesJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:18915-20. 2010.... - Multiple mating and its relationship to brood size in pregnant fishes versus pregnant mammals and other viviparous vertebratesJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:7091-5. 2011..Under the logistical constraint hypothesis, propensities for multiple mating in each species register a balance between near-universal fitness benefits from multiple mating and species-idiosyncratic logistical limits on polygamy... - Catadromous eels continue to be slippery research subjectsJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Mol Ecol 20:1317-9. 2011..Results help to confirm standard textbook wisdom that these catadromous eels are nearly unique in the biological world by having both broad geographical distributions and yet displaying intraspecific near panmixia... - Multiple mating and clutch size in invertebrate brooders versus pregnant vertebratesJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:11512-7. 2011.... - Time to standardize taxonomiesJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
Syst Biol 56:130-3. 2007 - Pronounced reproductive skew in a natural population of green swordtails, Xiphophorus helleriAndrey Tatarenkov
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Mol Ecol 17:4522-34. 2008..This study is one of a few exhaustive genetic assessments of joint-sex parentage in a natural fish population, and results are relevant to the operation of sexual selection in this sexually dimorphic, high-fecundity species... - Genetic composition of laboratory stocks of the self-fertilizing fish Kryptolebias marmoratus: a valuable resource for experimental researchAndrey Tatarenkov
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
PLoS ONE 5:e12863. 2010..marmoratus as a reliable vertebrate model for experimental research that requires or can capitalize upon "clonal" replicate specimens... - Polygynandry and sexual size dimorphism in the sea spider Ammothea hilgendorfi (Pycnogonida: Ammotheidae), a marine arthropod with brood-carrying malesFelipe S Barreto
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 321 Steinhaus Hall, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Mol Ecol 17:4164-75. 2008..In addition to providing the first description of the mating system in a sea spider, our study illustrates the potential uses of this group for testing hypotheses from parental investment and sexual selection theories... - Long-term retention of self-fertilization in a fish cladeAndrey Tatarenkov
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:14456-9. 2009..ocellatus, implying that the selfing capacity has persisted in these fishes for at least several hundred thousand years... - Strong population structure despite evidence of recent migration in a selfing hermaphroditic vertebrate, the mangrove killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus)Andrey Tatarenkov
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Mol Ecol 16:2701-11. 2007..marmoratus, our data indicate that interlocality dispersal and outcross-mediated genetic recombination (and probably genetic drift also) play key proximate roles in the local 'clonal' dynamics of this species... - Rapid concerted evolution in animal mitochondrial DNAAndrey Tatarenkov
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Biol Sci 274:1795-8. 2007..The previously unsuspected power of these molecular phenomena could greatly impact mtDNA dynamics within germ cell lineages and in local animal populations... - Extreme homogeneity and low genetic diversity in Kryptolebias ocellatus from south-eastern Brazil suggest a recent foundation for this androdioecious fish populationA Tatarenkov
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
J Fish Biol 79:2095-105. 2011..This finding generally is inconsistent with the established opinion that the K. ocellatus and K. marmoratus clade originated in this geographic region and later dispersed northward into the Caribbean... - Microgeographic population structure of green swordail fish: genetic differentiation despite abundant migrationA Tatarenkov
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Mol Ecol 19:257-68. 2010..30 between adjacent samples across these barriers. Overall, our results are helpful in understanding the interplay of evolutionary forces and population dynamics in a small fish living in a changeable habitat... - Colloquium paper: in the light of evolution II: biodiversity and extinctionJohn C Avise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:11453-7. 2008 - Individual organisms as units of analysis: Bayesian-clustering alternatives in population geneticsJudith E Mank
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genet Res 84:135-43. 2004.... - Genetic sex determination, gender identification and pseudohermaphroditism in the knobbed whelk, Busycon carica (Mollusca: Melongenidae)John C Avise
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:641-6. 2004..These findings highlight the distinction between gender in a genetic versus phenotypic sense... - Phylogeographic breaks in low-dispersal species: the emergence of concordance across gene treesChih Horng Kuo
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genetica 124:179-86. 2005..Genealogical concordance across multiple loci thus becomes a deciding criterion by which to distinguish between stochastic and deterministic causation in accounting for phylogeographic discontinuities in continuously distributed species... - Cladogenetic correlates of genomic expansions in the recent evolution of actinopterygiian fishesJudith E Mank
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Biol Sci 273:33-8. 2006..Although many variables (including ecological and behavioural factors) clearly can influence speciation rates, the current results are consistent with the notion that genomic architecture may play a role in species proliferation as well... - A mixed-mating strategy in a hermaphroditic vertebrateMark Mackiewicz
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Biol Sci 273:2449-52. 2006..Advantages of a mixed-mating strategy in K. marmoratus probably relate to this fish's solitary lifestyle and its ability to colonize new habitats... - Microsatellite documentation of male-mediated outcrossing between inbred laboratory strains of the self-fertilizing mangrove killifish (Kryptolebias Marmoratus)Mark Mackiewicz
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
J Hered 97:508-13. 2006.... - Sympatric speciation as a consequence of male pregnancy in seahorsesAdam G Jones
School of Biology, 310 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:6598-603. 2003.... - Comparative phylogenetic analysis of male alternative reproductive tactics in ray-finned fishesJudith E Mank
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Evolution 60:1311-6. 2006..Nest piracy appears not to be part of this evolutionary progression, possibly because its late onset in the life cycle of most ray-finned fishes reduces the effects of selection on this reproductive tactic... - Does organismal pedigree impact the magnitude of topological congruence among gene trees for unlinked loci?Chih Horng Kuo
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genetica 132:219-25. 2008..Thus, with the possible exception of extremely small populations, multiple unlinked genes within a pedigree can indeed be assumed, for most practical purposes, to have independent genealogical histories... - Phylogenetic conservation of chromosome numbers in Actinopterygiian fishesJudith E Mank
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Life Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genetica 127:321-7. 2006..0096). Overall, our phylogenetic analysis indicates a mosaic evolutionary pattern in which the forces that govern labile features of fish genomes must operate largely independently of those that operate to conserve chromosome numbers... - Extensive outcrossing and androdioecy in a vertebrate species that otherwise reproduces as a self-fertilizing hermaphroditeMark Mackiewicz
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:9924-8. 2006.... - Phylogenetic perspectives in the evolution of parental care in ray-finned fishesJudith E Mank
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Evolution 59:1570-8. 2005..Results are discussed in the context of prior thought about the evolution of alternative parental care modes in vertebrates... - Hemiplasy and homoplasy in the karyotypic phylogenies of mammalsTerence J Robinson
Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:14477-81. 2008.... - Intensive genetic assessment of the mating system and reproductive success in a semi-closed population of the mottled sculpin, Cottus bairdiAnthony C Fiumera
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Mol Ecol 11:2367-77. 2002..54). In addition, significantly fewer eggs per female were deposited in single than in multidam nests. Not only were perceived high-quality males spawning with multiple partners, but they were receiving more eggs from each female...