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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2012-02-01
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Series: | BMC Genomics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/13/76 |