Every time you thought nature is diverse when it comes to reproduction, you find an even crazier example. There is also a serious side to this: to understand general principles of evolution, one should really know what is really is the norm (forget our own biases!) and why changing the rules – changing the ecology, say via the body size of an organism – can change what we expect to evolve in nature. So, from marine insects that emerge either at full or new moon and only live a couple of hours as adults, to fish that produce no male offspring yet still need sperm to reproduce (where might that sperm then come from?), have a read!
| Ekrem, R.K., de Vries, C., Kaiser, T.S. & Kokko, H. 2025. Temporal niche differentiation often leads to priority effects rather than coexistende: lessons from a marine midge. Journal of Animal Ecology 94:1935-1947. | |
| Ekrem, R.K., Jacobsen, A., Kokko, H. & Kaiser, T.S. 2025. How an insect converts time into space: Temporal niches aid coexistence via modifying the amount of habitat available for reproduction. Ecology Letters 28:e70139. | |
| Kokko, H. & Jennions, M.D. 2023. Is more always better when it comes to mating? PLoS Biology 21:e3001955. | |
| ecoevorxiv version | de Vries, C., Erten, E.Y. & Kokko, H. 2023. Is asymmetry required for the evolution of senescence? A comment on Pen & Flatt 2021. Proc. R. Soc. B. 290: 20221101. |
| Klein, K., Kokko, H. & ten Brink, H. 2021. Disentangling verbal arguments: intralocus sexual conflict in haplodiploids. American Naturalist 198: 678–693. | |
| Aubier, T.G., Galipaud, M., Erten, E.Y. & Kokko, H. 2020. Transmissible cancers and the evolution of sex under the Red Queen hypothesis. PloS Biology 18: e3000916. | |
| Erten, E.Y. & Kokko, H. 2020. From zygote to a multicellular soma: body size affects optimal growth strategies under cancer risk. Evolutionary Applications 13:1593–1604. | |
| Constable, G.W.A. & Kokko, H. 2018. The rate of facultative sex governs the number of expected mating types in isogamous species. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1168-1175. | |
| Kokko, H. 2017. Give one species the task to come up with a theory that spans them all: what good can come out of that? Proc. R. Soc. B 284: 20171652. | |
| Lindholm, A.K., Dyer, K.A., Firman, R.C., Fishman, L., Forstmeier, W., Holman, L., Johannesson, H., Knief, U., Kokko, H., Larracuente, A.M., Manser, A., Montchamp-Moreau, C., Petrosyan, V.G., Pomiankowski, A., Presgraves, D.C., Safronova, L.D., Sutter, A., Unckless, R.L., Verspoor, R. L., Wedell, N., Wilkinson, G.S. & Price, T.A.R. 2016. The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31 (4), 315-326. | |
| haiku | Lehtonen, J., Schmidt, D.J., Heubel, K. & Kokko, H. 2013. Evolutionary and ecological implications of sexual parasitism. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 28: 297-306. |
| haiku pdf | Kokko, H. & Heubel, K.U. 2011. Prudent males, group adaptation, and the tragedy of the commons. Oikos 120: 641–656 (an invited Per Brinck Oikos Award article). |
| Heubel, K.U., Rankin, D.J. & Kokko, H. 2009. How to go extinct by mating too much: Population consequences of male mate choice and efficiency in a sexual-asexual species complex. Oikos 118: 513-520. | |
| Kokko, H., Heubel, K. & Rankin, D.J. 2008. How populations persist when asexuality requires sex: the spatial dynamics of coping with sperm parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275: 817-825. |