The adaptive value of polyembryony.

W.J. Loughry, Paulo Prodöhl, C.M. McDonough, J.C. Avise

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Abstract

From an evolutionary standpoint, the production of offspring is the single most important aspect of an animal's life. Offspring carry an individual's genes into the next generation and it is the differential representation of genes in a population that drives evolutionary change. There are a variety of ways in which animals create offspring, ranging from cases where parents make identical copies of themselves by budding or parthenogenesis, to the standard case in vertebrates where gametes from a male and female fuse in sexual reproduction to produce the next generation. In this article we describe an usual variant of sexual reproduction, polyembryony.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)274-278
Number of pages5
JournalAmerican Scientist
Volume86
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1998

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