Lost Sex The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis - Schön, Isa.; Martens, Koen.; van Dijk, Peter; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Asex and Evolution: A Very Large-Scale Overview -- The Evolution of the Problem of Sex -- Apomixis: Basics for Non-botanists -- Cytology of Asexual Animals -- A Graphical Approach to Lineage Selection Between Clonals and Sexuals -- Geographical Parthenogenesis: General Purpose Genotypes and Frozen Niche Variation -- Sex and the Red Queen -- Geographical Parthenogenesis: Opportunities for Asexuality -- The Elusive Clone - In Search of Its True Nature and Identity -- Asexual Speciation -- Darwinulid Ostracods: Ancient Asexual Scandals or Scandalous Gossip? -- Parthenogenesis in Oribatid Mites (Acari, Oribatida): Evolution Without Sex -- Bdelloid Rotifers: Progress in Understanding the Success of an Evolutionary Scandal -- Sex Loss in Monogonont Rotifers -- Cyclical Parthenogenesis in Daphnia: Sexual Versus Asexual Reproduction -- Metasexual Stick Insects: Model Pathways to Losing Sex and Bringing It Back -- Thelytoky in Hymenoptera with Venturia canescens and Leptopilina clavipes as Case Studies -- Sex in Parthenogenetic Planarians: Phylogenetic Relic or Evolutionary Resurrection? -- Sperm-Dependent Parthenogenesis and Hybridogenesis in Teleost Fishes -- Masked Damage: Mutational Load in Hemiclonal Water Frogs -- Lost Sex in the Reptiles: Constraints and Correlations -- An Apomixis-Gene's View on Dandelions -- Allelic Sequence Divergence in the Apomictic Boechera holboellii Complex -- Asexual Reproduction in Infectious Diseases -- What's in a Clone: The Rapid Evolution of Aphid Asexual Lineages in Relation to Geography, Host Plant Adaptation and Resistance to Pesticides -- Epigenetic Mechanisms in Mammals and Their Effects on Cloning Procedures -- Grapevine (Vitis ssp.): Example of Clonal Reproduction in Agricultural Important Plants.
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Ecology .; Plant science; Botany; Zoology; Evolutionary Biology; Ecology; Plant Sciences; Zoology