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Asexual Reproduction in the Enchytraeidae (Olig.)

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ASEXUAL reproduction has only recently been recorded in the Enchytraeidae 1. This inability of Enchytraeidae to reproduce asexually is in sharp contrast with the situation within the families of Naididae and Aelosomatidae. We have, however, found asexual reproduction to occur in three species of Enchytraeidae among the 78 Danish species hitherto examined. In one species asexual reproduction by fragmentation and regeneration is the only mode of reproduction whereas the two other species are able to reproduce sexually as well as asexually.

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CHRISTENSEN, B. Asexual Reproduction in the Enchytraeidae (Olig.). Nature 184, 1159–1160 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841159a0

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