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A population of sexual Daphnia pulex resists invasion by asexual clones.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Aug 2014
Innes David J, Ginn Michael
Abstract excerpt
Asexual reproduction avoids the costs associated with sex, predicting that invading asexual clones can quickly replace sexual populations. Daphnia pulex populations in the Great Lakes area are predominately asexual, but the elimination of sexual populations by invading clones is poorly understood. Asexual clones were detected at low frequency in one rare sexual population in 1995, with some increase in frequency...
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