THE EFFECTS OF SPATIAL CONFIGURATION OF POPULATIONS ON THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SEXES IN A CLONAL ORGANISM
Despite the two-fold advantage to asexual reproduction and its prevalence in a variety of organisms, sexual reproduction is prevalent across all taxa. The maintenance of two sexes is required to ensure genetic diversity and to prevent “evolutionary dead ends,” especially in clonal organisms. Many me...
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UKnowledge
2012
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