Article
Asexual but Not Clonal: Evolutionary Processes in Automictic Populations.
Genetics - 1 Jun 2017
Engelstädter Jan
Abstract excerpt
Many parthenogenetically reproducing animals produce offspring not clonally but through different mechanisms collectively referred to as automixis. Here, meiosis proceeds normally but is followed by a fusion of meiotic products that restores diploidy. This mechanism typically leads to a reduction in heterozygosity among the offspring compared to the mother. Following a derivation of the rate at which...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Clone Cells
- Diploidy
- Heterozygote
- Meiosis
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Parthenogenesis
- Reproduction, Asexual
- Selection, Genetic