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Variation in asexual lineage age in Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a New Zealand snail.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2005
Neiman M, Jokela J, Lively C M
Abstract excerpt
Asexual lineages are thought to be subject to rapid extinction because they cannot generate recombinant offspring. Accordingly, extant asexual lineages are expected to be of recent derivation from sexual individuals. We examined this prediction by using mitochondrial DNA sequence data to estimate asexual lineage age in populations of a freshwater snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) native to New Zealand and...
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