Publications
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2021
Sandler, G., S. I. Wright*, and A. F. Agrawal*. 2021. Patterns and causes of signed linkage disequilibria in flies and plants. Mol. Bio. Evol. 38: 4310-4321. PDF
Lefcheck, J. S., G. J. Edgar, R.D. Stuart-Smith, A. E. Bates, C. Waldock, S. J. Brandl, S. Kininmonth, S. D. Link, J. E. Duffy, D. B. Rasher and A. F. Agrawal. 2021. Species richness and identity both determine the biomass of global reef fish communities. Nat. Comm. 12: 6875. PDF
Yun, L., H. D. Rundle*, and A. F. Agrawal*. 2021. On male harm: how it is measured and how it evolves in different environments. Am. Nat. 198: 219-231. PDF
2020
Sandler, G., M. Bartkowska, S. I. Wright*, and A. F. Agrawal*. 2020. Estimation of the SNP mutation rate in two vegetatively propagating species of duckweed. G3 10: 4191-4200. PDF
2019
Wardlaw, A.M. and A. F. Agrawal. 2019. Sexual conflict and sexually transmitted infections (STIs): Coevolution of sexually antagonistic host traits with an STI. Am. Nat. 193: E1-E14. PDF
Ho, E. K. H., M. Bartkowska, S. I. Wright*, and A.F. Agrawal*. 2019. Population genomics of the facultatively asexual duckweek Spirodela polyrhiza. New Phytol. 224: 1361-1371. PDF
Wang, A., A. Singh, Y. Huang, and A. F. Agrawal. 2019. Ecological specialization in populations adapted to constant verses heterogeneous environments. Evolution 73: 1309-1317. PDF
Yun, L., M. Bayoumi, S. Yang, P. J. Chen, H. D. Rundle*, and A. F. Agrawal*. 2019. Testing for local adapation in adult male and female fitness among populations evolved under different mate competition regimes. Evolution 73: 1604-1616. PDF
2018
Sharp, N. P. and A. F. Agrawal. 2018. An experimental test of the mutation-selection balance model for the maintenance of genetic variation in fitness components. Proc. B. 285: 20181864. PDF
Hartfield, M., S. I. Wright, and A. F. Agrawal. 2018. Coalescence and linkage disequilibrium in facultatively sexual diploids. Genetics 210: 683-701. PDF
Yun, L., P. J. Chen, K. E. Kwock, C. S. Angell, H. D. Rundle* and A. F. Agrawal*. 2018. Competition for mates and the improvement of nonsexual fitness. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115: 6762-6767. PDF
MacPherson, A., L. Yun, T. S. Barrera, A. F. Agrawal and H. D. Rundle. 2018. The effects of male harm vary with female quality and environmental complexity in Drosophila melanogaster. Biol. Lett. 14: 20180443. PDF
Rowe, L., S. F. Chenoweth, and A. F. Agrawal. 2018. The genomics of sexual conflict. Am. Nat. 192: 274-286. PDF
Ho, E. K. H., and A. F. Agrawal. 2018. Mutation accumulation in selfing populations under fluctuating selection. Evolution 72: 1759–1772. PDF
Luijckx, P, E. K. H. Ho, A. Stanic, and A. F. Agrawal. 2018. Mutation accumulation in populations of varying size: large effect mutations cause most mutational decline in the rotifer B. calyciflorus under UV-C radiation. J Evol Biol 71: 2714-2720. PDF
2017
Singh, A., A. F. Agrawal*, and H. D. Rundle*. 2017. Environmental complexity and the purging of deleterious alleles. Evolution 71: 2714-2720. PDF
Yun, L., P.J. Chen, A. Singh, A. F. Agrawal*, and H. D. Rundle*. 2017. The physical environment mediates male harm and its effect on selection in females. Proc. R. Soc. B 284: 20170424. PDF
Ho, E. K. H., and A. F. Agrawal. 2017. Aging asexual lineages and the evolutionary maintenance of sex. Evolution 71: 1865-1875. PDF
Luijckx, P., E. K. H. Ho, M. Gasim, S. Chen, A. Stanic, C. Yanchus, Y. S. Kim, and A. F. Agrawal. 2017. Higher rates of sex evolve during adaptation to more complex environments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114: 534-539. PDF
2016
Huang, Y. and A.F. Agrawal. 2016. Experimental evolution of gene expression and plasticity in alternative selective regimes. PLoS Genetics 12: e1006336. Available from PLoS here.
Huang, Y., I. Tran, and A.F. Agrawal. 2016. Does genetic variation maintained by environmental heterogeneity facilitate adaptation to novel selection? Am. Nat. 188: 27-37. PDF
Sharp, N. P. and A.F. Agrawal. 2016. Low genetic quality alters key dimensions of the mutational spectrum. PLoS Biology 14: e1002419. Available from PLoS here.
Agrawal, A. F., and M. Hartfield. 2016. Coalescence with background and balancing selection in systems with bi- and uniparental reproduction: contrasting partial asexuality and selfing. Genetics 202: 313-326. PDF
2015
Huang, Y., J.R. Stinchcombe, and A.F. Agrawal. 2015. Quantitative genetic variance in experimental fly populations evolving with or without environmental heterogeneity. Evolution 69: 2735-2746. PDF
Agrawal, A.F. 2015. Infection elevates diversity. Nature 525: 464-465. (News and Views) PDF
2014
Yun, L., and A. F. Agrawal. 2014. Variation in the strength of inbreeding depression across environments: Effects of stress and density dependence. Evolution 68: 3599-3606. PDF
Huang, Y., S.I. Wright, and A.F. Agrawal. 2014. Genome-wide patterns of genetic variation within and among alternative selective regimes . PLoS Genetics 10: e1004527. Available from PLoS here.
Kamran-Disfani, A., and A. F. Agrawal. 2014. Selfing, adaptation and background selection in finite populations. J. Evol. Biol. 27: 1360-1371. PDF
Arbuthnott, D., E. M. Dutton, A. F. Agrawal, and H. D. Rundle. 2014. Remating and sperm competition in replicate populations of Drosophila melanogaster adapted to alternative environments. PLoS One 9: e90207 Available from PLoS here.
Wang, A. D., N. P. Sharp, and A. F. Agrawal. 2014. Sensitivity of the distribution of mutational fitness effects to environment, genetic background, and adaptedness: a case study with Drosophila. Evolution 68: 840-853. PDF
Arbuthnott, D., E. M. Dutton, A. F. Agrawal, and H. D. Rundle. 2014. The ecology of sexual conflict: ecologically dependent parallel evolution of male harm and female resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Ecology Letters 17: 221-228. PDF
2013
Zikovitz, A. E. and A. F. Agrawal. 2013. The condition dependency of fitness in males and females: the fitness consequences of juvenile diet assessed in environments differing in key adult resources. Evolution. 67: 2849-2860. PDF
Becks, L. and A. F. Agrawal. 2013. Higher rates of sex evolve under K-selection. J. Evol. Biol. 26: 900-905. PDF
Sharp, N.P. and A.F. Agrawal. 2013. Male-biased fitness effects of spontaneous mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 67: 1189-1195. PDF
Long, T.A.F., L. Rowe, and A.F. Agrawal 2013. The effects of selective history and environmental heterogeneity on inbreeding depression in experimental populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Am. Nat. 181: 532-544. PDF
2012
Agrawal, A.F., and M.C. Whitlock. 2012. Mutation load: The fitness of individuals in populations where deleterious alleles are abundant. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 43: 115-135. PDF
Wang, A.D., and A.F. Agrawal. 2012. DNA repair pathway choice is influenced by the health of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 192: 361-370. PDF
Wardlaw, A.M. and A.F Agrawal. 2012. Temporal variation in selection accelerates mutational decay by Muller’s ratchet. Genetics 191: 907-916 PDF
Ho, E.K.H., and A.F. Agrawal. 2012. The effects of competition on the strength and softness of selection. J. Evol. Biol. 25: 2537-2546. PDF
Clark, S.C.A., N.P. Sharp, L. Rowe, and A.F. Agrawal. 2012. Relative effectiveness of mating success and sperm competition at eliminating deleterious mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One 7: e37351 Available from PLoS here.
Sharp, N.P. and A.F. Agrawal. 2012. Evidence for elevated mutation rates in low-quality genotypes. PNAS 109: 6142-6146 PDF
Long, T.A.F., A.F. Agrawal, and L. Rowe. 2012. The effect of sexual selection on offspring fitness depends on the nature of genetic variation. Curr. Biol. 22: 204-208 PDF
Becks, L. and A.F. Agrawal. 2012. The evolution of sex is favoured during adaptation to new environments. PLoS Biology 10: e1001317. Available from PLoS here.
Tedman-Aucoin, K. and A.F. Agrawal. 2012. The effect of deleterious mutations and age on recombination in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 66: 575-585 PDF
2011
Agrawal, A.F., J.L. Feder, and P. Nosil 2011. Ecological divergence and the origins of intrinsic isolation with gene flow. Intl. J. Ecol. Article ID 435357 Available from IJE here
Becks, L. and A.F. Agrawal. 2011. The effect of sex on the mean and variance of fitness in facultatively sexual rotifers. J. Evol. Biol. 24: 656-664 PDF
Agrawal, A.F., and M.C. Whitlock. 2011. Inferences about the distribution of dominance drawn from yeast gene knockout data. Genetics 178: 553-566 PDF
Laffafian, A., J.D. King and A.F. Agrawal. 2010. Variation in the strength and softness of selection on deleterious mutations. Evolution 64: 3232-3241 PDF
2010
Agrawal, A.F., and M.C. Whitlock. 2010. Environmental duress and epistasis: How does stress affect the strength of selection on new mutations? Trends Ecol. Evol. 25: 450-458 PDF
Becks, L., and A.F. Agrawal. 2010. Higher rates of sex evolve in spatially heterogeneous environments. Nature 468: 89-92 PDF
Agrawal, A.F. 2010. Ecological determinants of mutation load and inbreeding depression in subdivided populations. Am. Nat. 176: 111-122 PDF
Cutter, A.D., and A.F. Agrawal. 2010. The evolutionary dynamics of operon distributions in eukaryote genomes. Genetics 185: 685-693 PDF
Wyman, M. J., A.F. Agrawal, and L. Rowe. 2010. Condition-dependence of the sexually dimorphic transcriptome in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 64: 1836-1848 PDF
2009
Agrawal, A.F., and J.R. Stinchcombe. 2009. How much do genetic covariances alter the rate of adaptation? Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 276: 1183-11191 PDF
Whitlock, M.C., and A.F. Agrawal. 2009. Purging the genome with sexual selection: Reducing mutation load through selection on males. Evolution 63: 569-582. PDF
Agrawal, A.F. 2009. Spatial heterogeneity and the evolution of sex in diploids. Am. Nat. 174: S54-S70 PDF
Agrawal, A.F. 2009. Selection on sex versus recombination in Red Queen models with diploid hosts.Evolution. 63: 2131-2141 PDF
Wang, A.D., N.P. Sharp, C.C. Spencer, K. Tedman-Aucoin, and A.F. Agrawal. 2009. Selection, epistasis, and parent-of-origin effects on deleterious mutations across environments in Drosophila melanogaster. Am. Nat. 174: 863-874 PDF
Sharp, N.P., and A.F. Agrawal. 2009. Sexual selection and the random union of gametes: Testing for a correlation in fitness between parents in Drosophila melanogaster. Am. Nat. 174: 613-622 PDF
Young, J.A., C.P. Yourth, and A.F. Agrawal. 2009. The effect of pathogens on selection against deleterious mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Evol. Biol. 22: 2125-2129 PDF
2008
Agrawal A.F. and A.D. Wang. 2008. Increased transmission of mutations by low-condition females: Evidence for condition-dependent DNA repair. PLoS Biol., 6: e30. Available from PLoS here.
Sharp, N.P. and A.F. Agrawal. 2008. Mating density and the strength of sexual selection against deleterious alleles in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 62: 857-867. PDF
Stinchcombe, J.R., A.F. Agrawal, P. A. Hohenlohe, S. J. Arnold, and M. W. Blows 2008. Estimating nonlinear selection gradients using quadratic regression coefficients: double or nothing? Evolution 62: 2435-2440. PDF
2006
Blachford, A., and A.F. Agrawal. 2006. Assortative mating for fitness and the evolution of recombination. Evolution, 60: 1337–1343. PDF
Agrawal A.F. 2006. Similarity selection and the evolution of sex: Revisiting the Red Queen. PLoS Biol., 4: 1364-1371. Available from PLoS here. Supporting Info: SI1, SI2, SI3
Agrawal A.F. 2006. Evolution of sex: Why do organisms shuffle their genotypes?Curr. Biol., 16: R696-R704. PDF
Dolgin, E.S., M.C. Whitlock and A.F. Agrawal. 2006. Male Drosophila melangoaster have higher mating success when adapted to their thermal environment. J. Evol. Biol. 19: 1894-1900 PDF
Agrawal A.F. and S.P. Otto. 2006. Host-parasite coevolution and selection on sex through the effects of segregation. Am. Nat. 168: 617-679. PDF (Supplementary material)
2001-2005
Agrawal A.F., N. Combs, and E.D. Brodie III. 2005. Insights into the costs of complex maternal care behavior in the burrower bug (Sehirus cinctus). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 57: 566-574. PDF
Agrawal A.F., L. Hadany, and S.P. Otto. 2005. The evolution of plastic recombination. Genetics, 171: 803-812. PDF
Agrawal, A.F., J.M. Brown, and E.D. Brodie III. 2004. On the social structure of offspring rearing in the burrower bug, Sehirus cinctus (Hemiptera: Cydnidae). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 57: 139-148. PDF
Agrawal, A.F., and C.M. Lively. 2003. Modelling infection as a two-step process combining gene-for-gene and matching-allele genetics. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 270: 323-334. PDF
Brown, J.M., A.F. Agrawal, and E.D. Brodie, III. 2003. An analysis of single clutch paternity in the burrower bug Sehirus cinctus using microsatellites. J. Insect. Behav., 16, 731-745. PDF
Agrawal, A.F. 2002. Genetic loads under fitness-dependent mutation rates. J. Evol. Biol., 15: 1004-1010. PDF
Agrawal, A.F. and C.M. Lively. 2002. Infection genetics: gene-for-gene versus matching-alleles models, and all points in between. Evol. Ecol. Res., 4: 79-90. PDF
Agrawal, A.F. 2001. Sexual selection and the maintenance of sexual reproduction. Nature, 411: 692-695. PDF
Agrawal, A.F. 2001. Kin recognition and the evolution of altruism. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B, 268: 1099-1104. PDF
Agrawal, A.F. 2001. The evolutionary consequences of mate copying on male traits. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 51: 33-40. PDF
Agrawal, A.F., E.D. Brodie, III, and J. Brown. 2001. Parent-offspring coadaptation and the dual genetic control of maternal care. Science, 292: 1710-1712. PDF
Agrawal, A.F., E.D. Brodie, III, and L.H. Rieseberg. 2001. Possible consequences of genes of major effect: transient changes in the G-matrix. Genetica, 112: 33-43. PDF
Agrawal, A.F., E.D. Brodie, III, and M.J. Wade. 2001. On indirect genetic effects in structured populations. Am. Nat. 158: 308-323. PDF
Agrawal, A.F. and J.R. Chasnov. 2001. Recessive mutations and the maintenance of sex in structured populations. Genetics 158: 913-917. PDF
Agrawal, A.F. and C.M. Lively. 2001. Parasites and the evolution of self-fertilization. Evolution, 55: 869-879. PDF
Brodie, E.D., III and A.F. Agrawal. 2001. Maternal effects and the evolution of aposematic signals. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 98: 7884-7887. PDF
Wade, M.J., R.G. Winther, A.F. Agrawal, and C.J. Goodnight. 2001. Alternative definitions of epistasis: dependence and interaction. Trends Ecol. Evol., 16: 498-504. PDF
Wolf, J.B., W.A. Frankino, A.F. Agrawal, E.D. Brodie, III, and A.J. Moore. 2001. Developmental interactions and the constituents of quantitative variation. Evolution, 55: 232-245. PDF