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Haploid all the way: a new style of asexuality revealed in animals
✍ Scribed by Véronique Perrot
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 93 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0265-9247
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Weeks et al(1) recently reported that they had found a species of mites where the parthenogenetic females are haploid. They show that this is caused by intracellular bacteria that turn genetic haploid males into haploid females. I discuss these findings and attempt to place these observations in evolutionary context. BioEssays 24:114–118, 2002. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.