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Evaluation of elevated ploidy and asexual reproduction as alternative explanations for geographic parthenogenesis in Eucypris virens ostracods.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2010
Adolfsson Sofia, Michalakis Yannis, Paczesniak Dorota, Bode Saskia N S, Butlin Roger K, Lamatsch Dunja K, Martins Maria J F, Schmit Olivier, Vandekerkhove Jochen, Jokela Jukka
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Transitions from sexual to asexual reproduction are often coupled with elevations in ploidy. As a consequence, the importance of ploidy per se for the maintenance and spread of asexual populations is unclear. To examine the effects of ploidy and asexual reproduction as independent determinants of...
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