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Dispersal and clonal diversity of North-European parthenogenetic earthworms

2006-09-01

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At least 15 earthworm species are known to reproduce parthenogenetically. Most of these retain meiosis but the chromosome set is duplicated before meiosis; alternatively there is mitosis instead of meiosis. In both cases the offspring are genetic copies of the parent worm. Parthenogens are always polyploid. Parthenogenesis is associated with a dispersal advantage: a single propagule suffices to establish a new pop...

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Literature Corpus work: 49335f61-cf8c-546f-b644-56814a85de0b
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-006-9015-7

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