By Isa Schön,Koen Martens,Peter van Dijk
Sex is the queen of difficulties in evolutionary biology. Generations of researchers have investigated one of many final final evolutionary paradoxes: why intercourse exists in any respect. on condition that sexual replica is expensive from an evolutionary perspective, you possibly can ask yourself why no longer all animals and vegetation reproduce asexually. Dozens of latest hypotheses try and clarify the superiority of intercourse and its benefits and expect the early extinction of totally asexual lineages.
The significant subject of this publication is: what's the destiny of animal and plant teams within which intercourse is misplaced? preliminary chapters speak about thought in the back of asexual lifestyles: what significant negative aspects do asexual teams need to face, what are the genetic and ecological effects and what does this idea are expecting for extra utilized points of asexual lifestyles, for instance in agricultural pests, ailments in addition to in cultural plants comparable to grapes. situations experiences in lots of animals (focusing on either invertebrates and vertebrates) and crops show parallel, but in addition singularly novel variations to the absence of meiosis and syngamy. And final yet now not least, are asexuals fairly doomed to early extinction or do real old asexuals exist?
This publication assembles contributions from an important study teams facing asexual evolution in eukaryotes. it's a milestone in learn on parthenogenesis and should be beneficial to undergraduate in addition to graduate scholars and to senior researchers in all fields of evolutionary biology, because the paradox of intercourse continues to be its queen of difficulties.
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