The shift from outcrossing to selfing is common in flowering plants 1 , 2 , but the genomic
consequences and the speed at which they emerge remain poorly understood. An excellent …

… Best of all, as we follow the gene's eye view around in Agren's … Chapter 4 draws on Ågren
JA. 2018. The Hamiltonian view … Chapter 5 incorporates material from Ågren JA. 2016. Selfish …

Although social behavior can have a strong genetic component, it can also result in selection
on genome structure and function, thereby influencing the evolution of the genome itself. …

… MMP and JA Å. further gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the John Templeton
Foundation (#62220). The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not …

Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events have occurred repeatedly during flowering plant
evolution, and there is growing evidence for predictable patterns of gene retention and loss …

Cooperation occurs at all levels of life, from genomes, complex cells and multicellular organisms
to societies and mutualisms between species. A major question for evolutionary biology …

During the last few decades, we have seen an explosion in the influx of details about the
biology of selfish genetic elements. Ever since the early days of the field, the gene’s-eye view of …

Most models of genome size evolution emphasize changes in relative rates of and/or the
efficacy of selection on insertions and deletions. However, transposable elements (TEs) are a …

… Ågren JA. Selfish genetic elements and the gene’s-eye view of evolution. Curr Zool. … Ågren
JA, Wright SI. Selfish genetic elements and plant genome size evolution. Trends Plant Sci. …

The history of life has been characterised by evolutionary transitions in individuality, the
grouping together of independently replicating units into new larger wholes: genes to …