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the genetics, ecology, and evolution of sexual abstinence in vertebrate animals
1 online resource (x, 237 pages) : illustrations, maps
In this book, Avise describes the genetics, ecology, natural history, and evolution of the world's approximately 100 species of vertebrate animal that routinely display one form or another of clonal or quasi-clonal reproduction.
Background: like begets like -- Clonality with the individual -- Sexuality: the antithesis of clonality -- Unisexual clonality in nature -- Reproduction by the chaste: parthenogenesis -- Reproduction by the semichaste: gynogenesis, hybridogenesis, and kleptogenesis -- Sexual clonality in nature -- Clonality in utero: polyembryony -- Clonality by incest: hermaphroditic self-fertilization -- Clonality in the laboratory -- Human-sponsored clonality.
John C. Avise ; with animal illustrations by Trudy Nicholson.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-231) and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008