Geographic Parthenogenesis: Recurrent Patterns Down Under
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Geographic Parthenogenesis: Recurrent Patterns Down Under
A recent study reports striking similarities in the origin and spread of parthenogenesis in two distantly related animals of the Australian arid zone, suggesting that the loss of sex was driven by a very general selective force.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.027