Evolution of meiosis genes in sexual vs. asexual Potamopyrgus antipodarum

How asexual reproduction affects genome evolution, and how organisms that are ancestrally sexual alter their reproductive machinery upon becoming asexual are both central unanswered questions in evolutionary biology. While these questions have been addressed to some extent in organisms such as asexu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rice, Christopher Steven
Other Authors: Logsdon, John M., Jr.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2015
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1739
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5791&context=etd