Lost sex in the reptiles: Constraints and correlations

Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis

Volumn 9789048127702, Issue , 2009, Pages 447-474

  Kearney, Michael ^a   Fujita, Matthew K ^b   Ridenour, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2770-2_21     Document Type: Chapter

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