Scientific publications

Sexual vs. parthenogenetic reproductive strategies and the evolution of sex

Ying, W.C.V., Tanaka, M. and Bonduriansky, R. 2025. Coexistence of sexual and asexual reproduction in facultatively parthenogenetic populations under sexual conflict: an agent-based simulation. The American Naturalist

Wilner, D., Bonduriansky, R. and Burke, N.W. 2025. Sexual conflict as a constraint on asexual reproduction: an empirical review. Biological Reviews 100: 2681-2706.

Tanaka, M. and Bonduriansky, R. 2025. Drift and dispersal hinder the evolution of facultative asexual reproduction. Evolution 79: 2250–2258.

Boldbaatar, J., Pollo, P., Wilner, D., Burke, N.W. and Bonduriansky, R. 2025. Reproductive transitions and sperm utilisation in a facultatively parthenogenetic stick insect. Ecology and Evolution 15 (7): e71766.

Vasconcelos, A.C.O., Adler, L. and Bonduriansky, R. 2025. Maternal provisioning of offspring with defence chemicals in a facultatively parthenogenetic stick insect. Ecology and Evolution 15: e71243

Wilner, D., Boldbaatar, J., Miller, S.M., Burke, N.W. and Bonduriansky, R. 2025.Can sexual conflict drive transitions to asexuality? Female resistance to fertilization in a facultatively parthenogenetic insect. Evolution 79: 525-540.

Boldbaatar, J., Vasconcelos, A.C.O., Burke, N.W. and Bonduriansky, R. 2024. Could adult or juvenile dispersal shape geographical parthenogenesis? Evidence from the facultatively parthenogenetic phasmid Megacrania batesii. Evolutionary Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-024-10327-y

Ying, W.C.V., Wilner, D., Adler, L., Wylde, Z. and Bonduriansky, R. 2024. Male-female chemical interactions in a facultatively parthenogenetic stick insect. Ethology 130 (10): e13503

Miller, S., Wilner, D., Boldbaatar, J., Burke, N.W., Rollins, L.A. and Bonduriansky, R. 2024. Does ecology shape geographical parthenogenesis? Evidence from the facultatively parthenogenetic stick insect Megacrania batesii. Ecology & Evolution 14: e70145.

Miller, S.M., Stuart, K.C., Burke, N.W., Rollins. L.A. and Bonduriansky, R. 2024. Genetic and phenotypic consequences of local transitions between sexual and parthenogenetic reproduction in the wild. The American Naturalist 203: 727511.

Burke, N.W. and Bonduriansky, R. 2022. Sexually but not parthenogenetically produced females benefit from mating in a stick insect. Functional Ecology 36: 2001-2014.

Burke, N.W. and Bonduriansky, R. 2019. The paradox of obligate sex: the roles of sexual conflict and mate scarcity in transitions to facultative and obligate asexuality. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32: 1230-1241.

Burke, N.W. and Bonduriansky, R. 2019. Exposure to juvenile males during development suppresses female capacity for parthenogenesis in a stick insect. Animal Behaviour 154: 85-94.

Burke, N. W., and Bonduriansky, R. 2018. The geography of sex: sexual conflict, environmental gradients, and local loss of sex in facultatively parthenogenetic animals. Philosophical Transactions B 373: 20170422.

Burke, N.W. and Bonduriansky, R. 2018. The fitness effects of delayed switching to sex in a facultatively asexual insect. Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3895

Burke, N.W. and Bonduriansky, R. 2017. Sexual conflict, facultative asexuality, and the true paradox of sex. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32: 646-652.

Burke, N.W. 2017. The short end of the stick: cloning and costly sex in the spiny leaf insect. Wildlife Australia 53: 28-31.

Burke, N. W., Crean, A. J., and Bonduriansky, R. 2015. The role of sexual conflict in the evolution of facultative parthenogenesis: a study on the spiny leaf stick insect. Animal Behaviour 101: 117-127.