Henrique Teotónio

The paper shows that small mutations creating phenotypic memory have no first-order selective advantage, while maternal effects conditioned on the environment are under first-order selection.

This study shows that maternal traits evolve adaptively only when maternal environments provide reliable cues predicting offspring selection environments.

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 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.

The paper expands the CeMEE panel, reports updated QTL mapping results, and finds that additive QTL explain 3% of trait variance with >80% power.