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Influence of genome and bio-ecology on the prevalence of genome exchange in unisexuals of the Ambystoma complex.
BMC evolutionary biology - 31 May 2018
Beauregard France, Angers Bernard
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Unisexuals of the blue-spotted salamander complex are thought to reproduce by kleptogenesis. Genome exchanges associated with this sperm-dependent mode of reproduction are expected to result in a higher genetic variation and multiple ploidy levels compared to clonality. However, the existence of some populations exclusively formed of genetically identical individuals suggests that factors could...
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