Publications

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2025

Ågren JA and MM Patten. 2025. The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict. Harvard University Press.

Mellon WJ, Sterner B, Ågren JA et al. 2025. Leveraging comparative phylogenetics for evolutionary medicine: Applications to comparative oncology. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health.  eoaf039

Schenkel MA, Patten MM, and Ågren JA. 2025 Internal conflicts and the measurement of evolutionary individuality. Biology and Philosophy. 40: 29.

    Barker-Clarke R, King ES, Maltas J, Ågren JA, Tadele D, and JG Scott. 2025. Decoding cancer evolution through adaptive fitness landscapes. In Salgia et al. (eds) Cancer Systems Biology: Translational Mathematical Oncology. Oxford University Press.

    Patel M and JA Ågren. 2025. Calculating relatedness: A pedigree of definitions. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 17:a041667

    McCoy DE, Kotler J, Weir B, and JA Ågren. 2025. Explanations of the obstetric dilemma: evolutionary conflict exacerbates health problems in pregnancy and childbirth. EcoEvoRxiv. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2KS7G

    2024

    Compton ZT, Ågren JA, Marusyk A, and AM Nedelcu. 2024. The Elephant and the spandrel. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health: eoae019

    Ågren JA, Arnqvist G, L Rowe. 2024. The resolution of evolutionary conflicts within species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291 (2031): 2024159 

    Schenkel M, Patten MM, and Ågren JA. 2024. Quantifying internal conflicts and their threats to organismal form and fitness. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.05.578856

    Ågren J. A. 2024. Biology and the English Language. Biosicence. 74: 120–121

    2023

    Ågren JA and JG Scott. 2023. Viruses, cancers, and evolutionary biology in the clinic: a commentary on Leeks et al. 2023. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36: 1587–1589.

    Munasinghe M and Ågren JA. 2023. When and why are mitochondria paternally inherited? Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. 80: 102053.

    Patten MM, Schenkel MA, Ågren JA. 2023. Adaptation in the face of internal conflicts: The paradox of the organism revisited. Biological Reviews. 98: 1796–1811.

    Hamis S, Somervuou P, Ågren JA, Tadele DS, Kesseli J, Scott JG, Nykter M, Gergle P, Finkelshtein D, and O Ovaskainen. 2023. Spatial cumulant models enable spatially informed treatment strategies and analysis of local interactions in cancer systems. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 86: 1–33.

    Ågren JA. Genes and organisms in the legacy of the Modern Synthesis. In: Dickins, T.E. and Dickins, B.J. (eds) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory, pp. 555–568. Springer International Publishing.

    Ågren JA. 2023. Why we disagree about selfish genes. In: Dickins, T.E. and Dickins, B.J. (eds) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory, pp. 581–583. Springer International Publishing.

    Ågren JA. 2023 Pluralism and progress in evolutionary biology. In: Dickins, T.E. and Dickins, B.J. (eds) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory, pp. 611–615. Springer International Publishing.

    Ågren JA. 2023. Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences by Andrew S. Reynolds. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 98: 30–31.

    2022

    Ågren JA and MM Patten. Genetic conflicts and the case of licensed anthropomorphizing. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76: 166.

    Ågren JA, Haig D, and DE McCoy. 2022. Meiosis solved the problem of gerrymandering. Journal of Genetics. 101: 38.

    Ågren JA. 2022. Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic: Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship by Armin Schulz. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 97: 50.

    2021

    Ågren JA. 2021. Sewall Wright’s criticism of the gene’s-eye view of evolution. Evolution. 75: 2326-2334

    Ågren JA. 2021. The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution. Oxford University Press.

    2020

    Ågren JA‡, Munasinghe M‡, and AG Clark. 2020. Mitochondrial-Y chromosome epistasis in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B. 287: 20200469

    Ågren JA‡, Davies NG‡, and KR Foster. 2020. Reply to: Broad definitions of enforcement are unhelpful for understanding evolutionary mechanisms of cooperation. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 4: 323.

    Ågren JA. 2020. Agents and Goals in Evolution by Samir Okasha. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 95: 266.

    2019

    Ågren JA‡, Davies NG‡, and KR Foster. 2019. Enforcement is central to the evolution of cooperation. Nature Ecology and Evolution.3: 1018–1029

    Rubenstein DR, JA Ågren, L Carbone, HE Hoekstra, NC Elde, KM Kapheim, L Keller, CS Moreau, AL Toth, S Yeaman and HA Hofmann. 2019. Coevolution of genome architecture and social behavior. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 34: 844–855

    Ågren JA‡, Munasinghe M‡, and AG Clark. 2019. Sexual conflict through Mother’s Curse and Father’s Curse. Theoretical Population Biology. 129: 9–17

    2018

    Ågren JA and AG Clark. 2018. Selfish genetic elements. PLoS Genetics. 14: e1007700

    Ågren JA. 2018. The Hamiltonian view of social evolution. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science. 68-89: 88-93.

    2017

    Ågren JA and Hurst GDD. 2017 Selfish Genes. In Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. Ed. Karin Pfennig. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Ågren JA‡, Williamson RJ‡, Campitelli BE, and J Wheeler. 2017. Greenbeards in yeast: An undergraduate laboratory exercise to teach the genetics of cooperation. Journal of Biological Education. 51: 228-236  (‡ = equal contribution)

    2016

    Ågren JA. 2016. Selfish genetic elements and the gene’s-eye view of evolution. Current Zoology. 62: 659-665

    Ågren JA, Huang H, and SI Wright. 2016. Transposable element evolution in the allotetraploid Capsella bursa-pastoris. American Journal of Botany. 103: 1197-1202

    Elliott TA and JA Ågren. 2016. A naturalist’s guide of mobile genetic elements. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 9: 1-3

    Ågren JA. 2016. The social life of the genome. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 31: 494-495

    2015

    Ågren JA, S Greiner, MTJ Johnson, and SI Wright. 2015. No evidence that sex and transposable elements drive genome size variation in evening primroses. Evolution 10: 1053-1062

    Douglas G, G Gos, K Steige, A Salcedo, K Holm, JA Ågren, K Hazzouri, W Wang, AE Platts, EB Josephs, RJ Williamson, B Neuffer, M Lascoux, T Slotte, SI Wright. 2015. Hybrid origins and the earliest stages of diploidization in the highly successful recent polyploid Capsella bursa-pastoris. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112: 2806-2811

    Ågren JA and Wright SI. 2015. Selfish genetic elements and plant genome size evolution. Trends in Plant Science 20: 195-196

    Ågren JA. 2015. Bortom det acceptablas gränser. Bengt Lidforss och lundaradikalismen [Beyond the limits of acceptability. Bengt Lidforss and the Lund radicalism]. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 37: 126-128

    2014

    Hough J‡, Ågren JA‡, Barrett SCH, and SI Wright. 2014. Chromosomal distribution of cyto-nuclear genes in a dioecious plant with sex chromosomes. Genome Biology and Evolution 6: 2439-2443 (‡ = equal contribution)

    Ågren JA, Wang W, Koenig D, Neuffer B, Weigel D, SI Wright. 2014. Mating system shifts and transposable element evolution in the plant genus Capsella. BMC Genomics 15: 602

    Ågren JA. 2014. Evolutionary transitions in individuality: insights from transposable elements. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29: 90-96

    2013

    Slotte T, Hazzouri KM, Ågren JA, Koenig D, Maumus F, Guo Y, Steige K, Platts AE, Escobar JS, Newman LK, Wang W, Mandáková T, Vello E, Smith LM, Steffen J, Takuno S, Brandvain Y, Coop G, Andolfatto P, Hu TT, Blanchette M, Clark RM, Quesneville H, Nordborg M, Gaut BS, Lysak MA, Jenkins J, Grimwood J, Chapman J, Prochnick S, Shu S, Rokhsar D, Schmutz J, Weigel D, Wright SI. 2013 The Capsella rubella genome and the genomic consequences of rapid mating system evolution. Nature Genetics 45: 831-835

    Ågren JA. 2013. Plant Transposable Elements: Impact on Genome Structure and Function by M-A Grandbastien and J Casacuberta. Quarterly Review of Biology 88: 252

    Ågren JA. 2013. Sex, spite, and selfish genes. Journal of Genetics 92: 341-343

    Ågren JA. 2013. Selfish genes and plant speciation. Evolutionary Biology 40: 439-449

    2012

    Ross RI, Ågren JA, and JR Pannell. 2012. Exogenous selection shapes germination behaviour and seedling trait of populations at different altitudes in a Senecio hybrid zone. Annals of Botany 110: 1439-1447

    2011

    Ågren JA and Wright SI. 2011. Co-evolution between transposable elements and their host: a major factor in genome size evolution? Chromosome Research 19: 777-786

    Wright SI and JA Ågren. 2011. Sizing up Arabidopsis genome evolution. Heredity 107: 509-510

    2010

    Charlesworth D, Qiu S, Bergero R, Ågren JA and SI Wright. 2010. Using DNA sequence diversity to test for selection in Silene. International Journal of Plant Science 171: 1072-1082