Losing the desire: selection can promote obligate asexuality

Whilst parthenogenesis has evolved multiple times from sexual invertebrate and vertebrate lineages, the drivers and consequences of the sex-asex transition remain mostly uncertain. A model by Stouthamer et al. recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology shows a pathway by which obligate asexualit...

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Autores principales: King, Kayla C, Hurst, Gregory DD
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2911426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20687906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-101
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description Whilst parthenogenesis has evolved multiple times from sexual invertebrate and vertebrate lineages, the drivers and consequences of the sex-asex transition remain mostly uncertain. A model by Stouthamer et al. recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology shows a pathway by which obligate asexuality could be selected for following endosymbiont infection. See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/229
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spelling pubmed-29114262010-07-29 Losing the desire: selection can promote obligate asexuality King, Kayla C Hurst, Gregory DD BMC Biol Commentary Whilst parthenogenesis has evolved multiple times from sexual invertebrate and vertebrate lineages, the drivers and consequences of the sex-asex transition remain mostly uncertain. A model by Stouthamer et al. recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology shows a pathway by which obligate asexuality could be selected for following endosymbiont infection. See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/229 BioMed Central 2010-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2911426/ /pubmed/20687906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-101 Text en Copyright ©2010 King and Hurst; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Losing the desire: selection can promote obligate asexuality
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