Tom Parée

This study shows that self-fertilization changes the evolutionary pressure on a recombination modifier in C. elegans, reversing selection from positive to negative.

The paper generates and analyzes recombinant inbred lines (RILs) in Caenorhabditis becei to study heritable variation and QTLs in a gonochoristic nematode population.

The paper shows that recombination modifiers can influence adaptation by altering local recombination rates, even if they reduce genome-wide polygenic adaptation.

The paper shows that loss of function in rec-1 in C. elegans reduces but does not eliminate non-uniform crossover distribution, affecting X chromosome non-disjunction.