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Genome analysis of Diploscapter coronatus: insights into molecular peculiarities of a nematode with parthenogenetic reproduction.
BMC genomics - 24 Jun 2017
Hiraki Hideaki, Kagoshima Hiroshi, Kraus Christopher, Schiffer Philipp H, Ueta Yumiko, Kroiher Michael, Schierenberg Einhard, Kohara Yuji
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BACKGROUND: Sexual reproduction involving the fusion of egg and sperm is prevailing among eukaryotes. In contrast, the nematode Diploscapter coronatus, a close relative of the model Caenorhabditis elegans, reproduces parthenogenetically. Neither males nor sperm have been observed and some steps of meiosis are apparently skipped in this species. To uncover the genomic changes associated with the evolution of...
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