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Sexual selection expedites the evolution of pesticide resistance (2016)
Journal Article
Jacomb, F., Marsh, J., & Holman, L. (2016). Sexual selection expedites the evolution of pesticide resistance. Evolution, 70(12), 2746-2751. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13074

The evolution of insecticide resistance by crop pests and disease vectors causes serious problems for agriculture and health. Sexual selection can accelerate or hinder adaptation to abiotic challenges in a variety of ways, but the effect of sexual se... Read More about Sexual selection expedites the evolution of pesticide resistance.

Ornament Complexity Is Correlated with Sexual Selection: (A Comment on Raia et al., “Cope’s Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity”) (2016)
Journal Article
Holman, L., & Bro-Jørgensen, J. (2016). Ornament Complexity Is Correlated with Sexual Selection: (A Comment on Raia et al., “Cope’s Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity”). American Naturalist, 188(2), 272-275. https://doi.org/1

Raia et al. propose that the evolution of the shape and complexity of animal ornaments (e.g., deer antlers) can be explained by interspecific variation in body size and is not influenced by sexual selection. They claim to show that ornament complexit... Read More about Ornament Complexity Is Correlated with Sexual Selection: (A Comment on Raia et al., “Cope’s Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity”).

Evolution of social insect polyphenism facilitated by the sex differentiation cascade (2016)
Journal Article
Klein, A., Schultner, E., Lowak, H., Schrader, L., Heinze, J., Holman, L., & Oettler, J. (2016). Evolution of social insect polyphenism facilitated by the sex differentiation cascade. PLoS Genetics, 12(3), e1005952. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.10

The major transition to eusociality required the evolution of a switch to canalize development into either a reproductive or a helper, the nature of which is currently unknown. Following predictions from the ‘theory of facilitated variation’, we iden... Read More about Evolution of social insect polyphenism facilitated by the sex differentiation cascade.

The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive (2016)
Journal Article
Lindholm, A. K., Dyer, K. A., Firman, R. C., Fishman, L., Forstmeier, W., Holman, L., …Price, T. A. R. (2016). The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31(4), 315-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.0

Meiotic drivers are genetic variants that selfishly manipulate the production of gametes to increase their own rate of transmission, often to the detriment of the rest of the genome and the individual that carries them. This genomic conflict potentia... Read More about The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive.

Queen pheromones modulate DNA methyltransferase activity in bee and ant workers (2016)
Journal Article
Holman, L., Trontti, K., & Helanterä, H. (2016). Queen pheromones modulate DNA methyltransferase activity in bee and ant workers. Biology Letters, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.1038

DNA methylation is emerging as an important regulator of polyphenism in the social insects. Research has concentrated on differences in methylation between queens and workers, though we hypothesized that methylation is involved in mediating other fle... Read More about Queen pheromones modulate DNA methyltransferase activity in bee and ant workers.

Highly specific responses to queen pheromone in three Lasius ant species (2016)
Journal Article
Holman, L., Hanley, B., & Millar, J. G. (2016). Highly specific responses to queen pheromone in three Lasius ant species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70(3), 387-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2058-6

Queen pheromones mediate the reproductive division of labor in social insect colonies and provide novel opportunities for investigating the evolution of animal communication. Previous work found that queens in the ant genus Lasius produce several 3-m... Read More about Highly specific responses to queen pheromone in three Lasius ant species.