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Volume 18, Issue 21, 11 November 2008, Pages R983-R985
SummaryAsexual taxa, such as the bdelloid rotifers, are
anticipated to help answer the question of what makes sexual
reproduction so prevalent and persistent. But perhaps the secret
of some asexuals' success lies in their ecological oddity.
Florian Maderspacher takes a look. Summary | Full Text | PDF
(240 kb) - Asexual Evolution: Can Species Exist without Sex?
Current Biology, Volume 17, Issue 14, 17 July 2007, Pages
R543-R544 David M. Hillis SummaryMost explanations for the
existence of species involve a role for sex. A new study of a
group of asexual rotifers supports the idea that selection for a
common ecological niche can produce a pattern that mimics sexual
species, even in the absence of sex. Summary | Full Text | PDF
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