Rudi L. Verspoor

TL;DR: Current knowledge of how natural drive systems function, how drivers spread through natural populations, and the factors that limit their invasion are reviewed.

TL;DR: It is found that D. melanogaster populations from Sub-Saharan Africa are the most diverse, and that divergence is highest between these and non-Sub-Saharan populations, and there is strong evidence for structuring of populations between Sub-African Africa and the rest of the world, and some evidence for weak structure amongst derived populations.

TL;DR: It is suggested that age-based preference by females can be consistent across populations with very different environments, even when those populations differ in other key mating-related traits such as offspring production and copulation duration.

TL;DR: Current there is little valorisation of insects as a food product in Benin, in contrast to neighbouring countries, and promoting this tradition and implementing small scale captive rearing of selected species could improve food security.

TL;DR: Potential factors that may explain the persistence of drive systems are explored, focusing on the ancient sex-ratio driver in the fly Drosophila pseudoobscura, and potential solutions to the evolutionary mystery of why suppression does not appear to have evolved in this system are discussed.