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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

On the utility of oddities: exceptional bee reproduction illuminates fundamental questions of recombination.

Scott William Roy

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Scott William RoySan Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA.
San Francisco State University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite its importance, the selective and mechanistic forces governing recombination remain obscure. A recent study of facultatively asexual honeybees suggests a clear case of adaptive adjustment of recombination rate. That these bees' atypical genetics were central to the experiment underscores the utility of genetic oddities as model organisms for studying fundamental questions.

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ParthenogenesisReproductionAnimalsBeesRecombination, Geneticatypical genetic systemshymenopteraparthenogenesisrecombination rate

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PMID34404256
PMCPMC8371359
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