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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...
Autores principales: | King, Kayla C, Hurst, Gregory DD |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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