Summary
Causes and consequences of obligately asexual evolution
Horizontal gene transfer between bdelloid rotifers questioned, The Scientist, July 2018
Cross-contamination explains "inter and intraspecific horizonal genetic transfers" between asexual bdelloid rotifers. Wilson, C.G., Nowell, R. W. & Barraclough, T. G. 2018. Current Biology 28, 2436-2444.
We still don't know how strange, celibate animals evolve, Imperial College, April 2018
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry: The Enigma of Sex, BBC Radio 4 interviews, February 2018
Study sheds new light on sexless creatures, Imperial College, June 2013
(video): The mystery of the celibate rotifer, Science Friday, January 2010 [full story]
(Español) La insólita especie animal que se reproduce solo por clones desde hace 40 millones de años, NCYT, Sep 2013
Science Podcast, AAAS, January 2010 [transcript]
Why asexual organisms are on their last legs, The New York Times, January 2010
How to survive without sex for 50 million years, National Geographic, February 2010
(Deutsch): Selbstverteidigungstrick: Rädertierchen flüchten per Salto, Der Spiegel, January 2010
(Português): Animal revela como sobrevive sem sexo, Folha de Sao Paulo, February 2010
(Español): Un escándalo evolutivo, Xataka Ciencia, September 2010
(Hebrew): Who needs sex anyway?
Publications
Journals
Wilson CG, Pieszko T, Nowell RW, et al., 2024, Recombination in bdelloid rotifer genomes: asexuality, transfer and stress., Trends Genet, ISSN:0168-9525
Vasilikopoulos A, Herlyn H, Fontaneto D, et al., 2024, Whole-genome analyses converge to support the Hemirotifera hypothesis within Syndermata (Gnathifera), Hydrobiologia, ISSN:0018-8158
Fiałkowska E, Fiałkowski W, Wilson CG, et al., 2022, Effects of polyaluminum chloride (PAX-18) on the relationship between predatory fungi and Lecane rotifers., Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, Vol:29, Pages:17671-17681
Nowell RW, Barraclough TG, Wilson CG, 2021, Bdelloid rotifers use hundreds of horizontally acquired genes against fungal pathogens
Nowell RW, Wilson CG, Almeida P, et al., 2021, Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in bdelloid rotifers, Elife, Vol:10, ISSN:2050-084X, Pages:1-37