Bdelloid rotifers: Progress in understanding the success of an evolutionary scandal

Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis

Volumn 9789048127702, Issue , 2009, Pages 259-279

  Welch, David B Mark ^a   Ricci, Claudia ^b   Meselson, Matthew ^a,c  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2770-2_13     Document Type: Chapter

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