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Molecular phylogenetics and asexuality in the brine shrimp Artemia.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Sept 2006
Baxevanis Athanasios D, Kappas Ilias, Abatzopoulos Theodore J
Abstract excerpt
Explaining cases of long-term persistence of parthenogenesis has proven an arduous task for evolutionary biologists. Interpreting sexual-asexual interactions though has recently advanced owing to methodological design, increased taxon sampling and choice of model organisms. We inferred the phylogeny of Artemia, a halophilic branchiopod genus of sexual and parthenogenetic forms with cosmopolitan distribution,...
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