As I mentioned in my last post, obligately parthenogenetic (asexual) Daphnia produce males that are functional but functionless to the females that produce them. Their functionality was suggested by one simple test and then proven by another much more complicated. Both of these tests are interesting stories.
Our first question was whether superfluous males still produced [...]
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Males as sexual disorder vectors
Posted in Ecology, Environment, tagged Daphnia, vernal pond, parthenogenesis, asexuality on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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