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Genomic signatures of recombination in a natural population of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga.
Nature communications - 18 Dec 2020
Vakhrusheva Olga A, Mnatsakanova Elena A, Galimov Yan R, Neretina Tatiana V, Gerasimov Evgeny S, Naumenko Sergey A, Ozerova Svetlana G, Zalevsky Arthur O, Yushenova Irina A, Rodriguez Fernando, Arkhipova Irina R, Penin Aleksey A, Logacheva Maria D, Bazykin Georgii A, Kondrashov Alexey S
Abstract excerpt
Sexual reproduction is almost ubiquitous among extant eukaryotes. As most asexual lineages are short-lived, abandoning sex is commonly regarded as an evolutionary dead end. Still, putative anciently asexual lineages challenge this view. One of the most striking examples are bdelloid rotifers, microscopic freshwater invertebrates believed to have completely abandoned sexual reproduction tens of Myr ago. Here, we...
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