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Genetic diversity in populations of asexual and sexual bag worm moths (Lepidoptera: Psychidae)

BACKGROUND: Despite the two-fold cost of sex, most of the higher animals reproduce sexually. The advantage of sex has been suggested to be its ability, through recombination, to generate greater genetic diversity than asexuality, thus enhancing adaptation in a changing environment. We studied the ge...

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Autores principales: Grapputo, Alessandro, Kumpulainen, Tomi, Mappes, Johanna, Parri, Silja
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1185528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15987507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-5-5

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