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