Lost Sex The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schön, Isa. (Editor), Martens, Koen. (Editor), van Dijk, Peter. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2770-2
Table of Contents:
  • 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.