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Not so clonal asexuals: Unraveling the secret sex life of
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- Loss, persistence and reversal of phenotypic traits.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Rare sex punctuates strict asexual reproduction in the clonal raider ant,bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Sexual conflict as a constraint on asexual reproduction: an empirical review.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Strong Bottlenecks Constrain Adaptive Coevolution in a Host-Parasite Metapopulation.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- No Mate, No Problem: Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Parthenogenesis in the Cosmopolitan Earthworm Aporrectodea trapezoides (Annelida, Clitellata).Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Interplay of asexual and sexual reproduction in bifunctional insects.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Lack of successful sexual reproduction suggests the irreversible parthenogenesis in a stick insect.Ecology · 2025Article
- Parthenogenetic Stick Insects Exhibit Signatures of Preservation in the Molecular Architecture of Male Reproduction.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Spatio-temporal patterns of ovarian development andOpen biology · 2023Article
- Evidence for cryptic sex in parthenogenetic stick insects of the genusProceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Evolutionary Potential of Parthenogenesis-Bisexual Lineages within Triploid Apomictic Thelytoky inInsects · 2022Article
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- Chromosome-level genome assembly reveals homologous chromosomes and recombination in asexual rotiferScience advances · 2021Article
- Transitions to asexuality and evolution of gene expression inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
The maintenance of sex is paradoxical as sexual species pay the "twofold cost of males" and should thus quickly be replaced by asexual mutants reproducing clonally. However, asexuals may not be strictly clonal and engage in "cryptic sex," challenging this simple scenario. We study the cryptic sex life of the brine shrimp
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