What Can Asexual Lineage Age Tell Us about the Maintenance of Sex?

Sexual reproduction is both extremely costly and extremely common relative to asexuality, indicating that it must confer profound benefits. This in turn points to major disadvantages of asexual reproduction, which is usually given as an explanation for why almost all asexual lineages are apparently...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009-06, Vol.1168 (1), p.185-200
Hauptverfasser:	Neiman, Maurine, Meirmans, Stephanie, Meirmans, Patrick G.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ancient asexual Animals asexual Biological Evolution Female Genetic Variation lineage age Male parthenogenetic Reproduction Reproduction, Asexual scandal sex
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