Publication Date:
2013-09-25
Description:
Sex: what is it good for? Anthropocentric answers aside, this remains a central—and largely unanswered—question in evolutionary biology (1). Although asexual reproduction is phylogentically widespread among eukaryotes, none of these asexual lineages [with only a few arguable exceptions (2)] succeed like their sexually reproducing counterparts. In other words, asexual lineages...
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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