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Lutz Becks1, Aneil F Agrawal

  • 1Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada. lutz.becks@utoronto.ca

Nature
|October 15, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

ロティファーBrachionus calyciflorusの実験によると,空間的に異質な環境で性の進化が好まれる. 対照的に,性別は均質な環境では急速に減少し,空間的多様性が性繁殖を理解する上で鍵となることを示唆しています.

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