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Heritable gene expression differences between apomictic clone members in Taraxacum officinale: Insights into early stages of evolutionary divergence in asexual plants.
BMC genomics - 8 Mar 2016
Ferreira de Carvalho Julie, Oplaat Carla, Pappas Nikolaos, Derks Martijn, de Ridder Dick, Verhoeven Koen J F
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BACKGROUND: Asexual reproduction has the potential to enhance deleterious mutation accumulation and to constrain adaptive evolution. One source of mutations that can be especially relevant in recent asexuals is activity of transposable elements (TEs), which may have experienced selection for high transposition rates in sexual ancestor populations. Predictions of genomic divergence under asexual reproduction...
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