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Population genomics reveals a possible history of backcrossing and recombination in the gynogenetic fish Poecilia formosa.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Aug 2013
Alberici da Barbiano Laura, Gompert Zachariah, Aspbury Andrea S, Gabor Caitlin R, Nice Chris C
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Unisexual sperm-dependent vertebrates are of hybrid origins, rare, and predicted to be short-lived as a result of several challenges arising from their mode of reproduction. In particular, because of a lack of recombination, clonal species are predicted to have a low potential to respond to natural selection. However, many unisexual sperm-dependent species persist, and assessing the genetic diversity present in...
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