Sex, health and behaviour
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Sex, health and behaviour
U nderstanding the emergence of sexual reproduction has been one of nature’s long-standing mysteries that even now is only partially understood. There is a clear distinction between the reason sex evolved in the first place in early eukaryotes—and even before that in prokaryotes—and why it has been so stubbornly maintained in virtually all higher species. After all, asexual reproduction is supe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: EMBO reports
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1469-221X,1469-3178
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201541661