The Meselson Laboratory
The Evolutionary Genetics of Ancient Asexuality

Commentaries, Perspectives and other articles discussing our research:

Arkhipova, I. and H. G. Morrison (2001). PNAS 98: 14497-14502:

Mary-Lou Pardue, P. G. DeBaryshe, and Ky Lowenhaupt (2001).  Another protozoan contributes to understanding telomeres and transposable elements. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 98: 14195-14197.
Arkhipova, I. and M. Meselson (2000).  PNAS 97: 14473-14477:
Matic, I. (2001) Sex and retrotransposons.  Trends Microbiol. 9: 110.

Wright, S. and D. Finnegan (2001) Genome evolution: Sex and the transposable element.  Curr. Biol. 11: R296-R299.

Mark Welch, D.B., M.P.Cummings, D.M Hillis and M. Meselson (2004). PNAS 101: 1622-1625.
Mark Welch, J.L., D.B. Mark Welch and M.Meselson (2004). PNAS 101: 1618-1621.

      Birky, C.W. Jr. (2004). Bdelloid rotifers revisited. Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA) 101: 2651-2652.

Mark Welch, D. and M. Meselson (2000). Science 288: 1211-1215:

Judson, O. P. and B. B. Normark (1996).  Ancient asexual scandals.  Trends Ecol. Evol. 11: 41-46.

Butlin, R. (2000). Virgin rotifers.  Trends Ecol. Evol .15: 389-390.

Judson, O. P. and B. B. Normark (2000).  Sinless Originals. Science 288: 1185-1186.

Milius, S. (2000).  Bdelloids: No sex for over 40 millioin years. Science News 157: 326-327.