Every time you thought nature is diverse when it comes to reproduction, you find an even crazier example. There is also a serious side to this: to understand general principles of evolution, one should really know what is really is the norm (forget our own biases!) and why changing the rules – changing the ecology, say via the body size of an organism – can change what we expect to evolve in nature. Also: Together with Duur Aanen and Madeleine Beekman, we some time ago edited a special issue in Phil.Trans B titled “Weird sex: the underappreciated diversity of sexual reproduction”, with great contributions by people who share our view that there’s more to sex than the boring mammalian style. All these papers are online here!
| Kokko, H. & Jennions, M.D. 2023. Is more always better when it comes to mating? PLoS Biology 21:e3001955. | |
| ecoevorxiv version | de Vries, C., Erten, E.Y. & Kokko, H. In press. Is asymmetry required for the evolution of senescence? A comment on Pen & Flatt 2021. Proc. R. Soc. B. |
| Klein, K., Kokko, H. & ten Brink, H. 2021. Disentangling verbal arguments: intralocus sexual conflict in haplodiploids. American Naturalist 198: 678–693. | |
| Aubier, T.G., Galipaud, M., Erten, E.Y. & Kokko, H. 2020. Transmissible cancers and the evolution of sex under the Red Queen hypothesis. PloS Biology 18: e3000916. | |
| Erten, E.Y. & Kokko, H. 2020. From zygote to a multicellular soma: body size affects optimal growth strategies under cancer risk. Evolutionary Applications 13:1593–1604. | |
| Constable, G.W.A. & Kokko, H. 2018. The rate of facultative sex governs the number of expected mating types in isogamous species. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1168-1175. | |
| Kokko, H. 2017. Give one species the task to come up with a theory that spans them all: what good can come out of that? Proc. R. Soc. B 284: 20171652. | |
| Lindholm, A.K., Dyer, K.A., Firman, R.C., Fishman, L., Forstmeier, W., Holman, L., Johannesson, H., Knief, U., Kokko, H., Larracuente, A.M., Manser, A., Montchamp-Moreau, C., Petrosyan, V.G., Pomiankowski, A., Presgraves, D.C., Safronova, L.D., Sutter, A., Unckless, R.L., Verspoor, R. L., Wedell, N., Wilkinson, G.S. & Price, T.A.R. 2016. The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31 (4), 315-326. | |
| haiku | Lehtonen, J., Schmidt, D.J., Heubel, K. & Kokko, H. 2013. Evolutionary and ecological implications of sexual parasitism. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 28: 297-306. |
| haiku pdf | Kokko, H. & Heubel, K.U. 2011. Prudent males, group adaptation, and the tragedy of the commons. Oikos 120: 641–656 (an invited Per Brinck Oikos Award article). |
| Heubel, K.U., Rankin, D.J. & Kokko, H. 2009. How to go extinct by mating too much: Population consequences of male mate choice and efficiency in a sexual-asexual species complex. Oikos 118: 513-520. | |
| Kokko, H., Heubel, K. & Rankin, D.J. 2008. How populations persist when asexuality requires sex: the spatial dynamics of coping with sperm parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275: 817-825. |