Article
Single-locus recessive inheritance of asexual reproduction in a parasitoid wasp.
Current biology : CB - 8 Mar 2011
Sandrock Christoph, Vorburger Christoph
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary maintenance of sex is one of the big unresolved puzzles in biology. All else being equal, all-female asexual populations should enjoy a two-fold reproductive advantage over sexual relatives consisting of male and female individuals. However, the "all else being equal" assumption rarely holds in real organisms because asexuality tends to be confounded with altered genomic constitutions such as...
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