Maurine Neiman

Postdoctoral Researcher

I am interested in the selective value and maintenance of sexual reproduction and recombination. Currently, I am investigating how mating system affects mutation accumulation in mitochondrial and nuclear genomes across a variety of organisms, but with a special focus on snails. I did my Ph.D. with Curt Lively at Indiana University, where I studied the maintenance of sex in Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a New Zealand snail characterized by mixed sexual/asexual populations.

Representative Publications

• Neiman, M., J. Jokela and C. M. Lively. 2005. Variation in asexual lineage age in Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a New Zealand snail. Evolution 59:1945-1952. pdf
• Neiman, M. and C.M. Lively. 2005. Male New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) persist in copulating with asexual and parasitically castrated females. American Midland Naturalist 154: 88-96. pdf
• Barr, C., M. Neiman and D. R. Taylor. 2005. Inheritance and recombination of mitochondrial genomes in plants, fungi and animals. New Phytologist 168:39-50. pdf
• Neiman, M. and C.M. Lively. 2004. Pleistocene glaciation is implicated in the phylogeographical structure of Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a New Zealand snail. Molecular Ecology 13:3085-3098 pdf
• Busch, J.W., M. Neiman and J.M. Koslow. 2004. Evidence for maintenance of sex by pathogens in plants. Evolution 58:2584-2590. pdf
• Neiman, M. 2004. Physiological dependence on copulation in parthenogenetic females can reduce the cost of sex. Animal Behaviour 67:811-822. pdf

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