Transposable elements suppress recombination in all meiotic eukaryotes, including automictic ancient asexuals: A reply to Schön and Martens

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 903-909

  Gorelick, Root ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5 methylcytosine; Artemia; Automixis; Bdelloid; Darwinula; Darwinulid; Heterochromatin; Methylation; Parthenogenetic

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ARTEMIA; DARWINULA; DARWINULIDAE; EUKARYOTA; MUSTELINAE;

EID: 0038019675     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000007705     Document Type: Article

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