Sexual and asexual oogenesis require the expression of unique and shared sets of genes in the insect <it>Acyrthosiphon pisum</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Although sexual reproduction is dominant within eukaryotes, asexual reproduction is widespread and has evolved independently as a derived trait in almost all major taxa. How asexuality evolved in sexual organisms is unclear. Aphids,...

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Main Authors: Gallot Aurore, Shigenobu Shuji, Hashiyama Tomomi, Jaubert-Possamai Stéphanie, Tagu Denis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-02-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/13/76