Stress and fitness in parthenogens: is dormancy a key feature for bdelloid rotifers?
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Bdelloid rotifers revisited.
S exual reproduction is one of the most striking features of the biological world. The great majority of the animals and plants with which we are most familiar reproduce at least part of the time by means of sexual reproduction with meiosis, recombination, and fertilization. But many eukaryotes reproduce asexually part of the time, and some are exclusively asexual (1, 2). Two articles in a rece...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Evolutionary Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1471-2148
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-s2-s9