The evolution of the problem of sex

Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis

Volumn 9789048127702, Issue , 2009, Pages 21-46

  Meirmans, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951996935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2770-2_2     Document Type: Chapter

References (47)

1. Barton NH, Charlesworth B (1998) Why sex and recombination? Science 281:1986-1990
2. Bell G (1982) The masterpiece of nature: the evolution and genetics of sexuality. University of California Press, Berkeley
3. Bennett JH (1983) Introduction. In: Bennett JH (ed) Fisher RA. Natural selection, heredity and eugenics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1-50
4. Burt A (2000) Sex, recombination, and the efficacy of selection - was Weismann right? Evolution 54:337-351
5. Charlesworth B (2004) John Maynard Smith: January 6, 1920-April 19, 2004. Genetics 168:1105-1109
6. Conklin EG (1915) August Weismann. Proc Am Philos Soc 54: iii-xii
7. Crow JF, Kimura M (1965) Evolution in sexual and asexual populations. Am Nat 99:439-450
8. Darwin CR (1859) On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. John Murray, London
9. Darwin CR (1862a) On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. John Murray, London
10. Darwin CR (1862b) On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula, and on their remarkable sexual relations. J Proc Linn Soc Lond (Botany) 6:77-96
11. Darwin CR (1875) The variation of animals and plants under domestication, vol II. 2nd edn. John Murray, London
12. Darwin CR (1876) The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. John Murray, London
13. Darwin CR (1877) On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing, 2nd edn. John Murray, London
14. Darwin CR (1909) Essay of 1842. In: Darwin F (ed) The foundations of the origin of species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 1-50
15. Darwin CR (1958) The autobiography. In Barlow N (ed) The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the original omissions restored. Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. Collins, London, pp. 17-145
16. Darwin CR (1960) First notebook [B] (July 1837-February 1838). In de Beer G (ed) Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part I. Bull British Mus (Nat Hist). Histor Ser 2(2):23-73, pp. 42-73
17. Darwin E (1796) Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life, vol I. Johnson, London
18. Fisher RA (1922) Darwinian evolution by mutations. Eugenics Rev 14:31-34
19. Fisher RA (1930) The genetical theory of natural selection. Oxford University Press, Oxford
20. Fisher RA (1999) The genetical theory of natural selection. Complete variorum edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford
21. Gaupp E (1917) August Weismann - Sein Leben und sein Werk. Verlag Gustav Fischer, Jena
22. Ghiselin MT (1969) The triumph of the Darwinian method. University of California Press, Berkley
23. Ghiselin MT (1988) The evolution of sex: a history of competing points of view. In: Michod RE, Levin BR (eds) The evolution of sex. An examination of current ideas. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, pp. 7-23
24. Lewontin RC (1974) The genetic basis of evolutionary change. Columbia University Press, New York
25. Mahalanobis PC (1964) Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher. Biometrics 20:238-252
26. Maynard Smith J (1958) The effects of temperature and of egg-laying on the longevity of Drosophila subsobscura. J Exp Biol 35:832-842
27. Maynard Smith J (1964) Group selection and kin selection. Nature 201:1145-1147
28. Maynard Smith J (1968) Evolution in sexual and asexual populations. Am Nat 102:469-473
29. Maynard Smith J (1971) The origin and maintenance of sex. In: Williams GC (ed) Group selection. Aldine-Atherton, Chicago, pp. 163-175
30. Maynard Smith J (1976) Commentary: Group selection. Quart Rev Biol 51:277-283
31. Maynard Smith J (1978) The evolution of sex. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
32. Mooney SM (1993) The evolution of sex: variation and rejuvenescence in the 19th century and today. BioScience 43:110-113
33. Mooney SM (1995) H. J. Muller and R. A. Fisher on the evolutionary significance of sex. J Hist Biol 28:133-149
34. Moore J (2005) Good breeding: Darwin doubted his own family's "fitness". Nat Hist 114:45-46
35. Muller HJ (1932) Some genetic aspects of sex. Am Nat 66:118-138
36. Nee S (2004) Professor John Maynard Smith 1920-2004. Trends Ecol Evol 19:345-346
37. Otto SP, Lenormand T (2002) Resolving the paradox of sex and recombination. Nature Rev Genet 3:252-261
38. Petrunkevitch A (1964) August Weismann. Syst Zool 13:215-219
39. Richmond ML (2006) The 'domestication' of heredity: the familial organization of geneticists at Cambridge University, 1895-1910. J Hist Biol 39:565-605
40. Szathmary E, Hammerstein P (2004) Obituary - John Maynard Smith (1920-2004). Nature 429:258-259
41. Weismann A (1889) The significance of sexual reproduction in the theory of natural selection. In: Poulton EB, Schönland S, Shipley AE (eds) Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems, vol I. Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 255-332
42. Weismann A (1892) Amphimixis or the essential meaning of conjugation and sexual reproduction. In: Poulton EB, Schönland S, Shipley AE (eds) Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems, vol II. Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 101-222
43. Weismann A (1893) The germ plasm. A theory of heredity. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
44. Williams GC (1966) Adaption and natural selection: a critique of some current evolutionary thought. Princeton University Press, Princeton
45. Williams GC (1975) Sex and evolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton
46. Winther R (2001) August Weismann on germ-plasm variation. J Hist Biol 34:517-555
47. Wynne-Edwards VC (1962) Animal dispersion in relation to social behavior. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh