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Clonal Niche Organization in Triploid Parthenogenetic Trichoniscus pusillus: A Comparison of Two Kinds of Microevolutionary Events

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The phenomenon of parthenogenesis confronts current neo-Darwinistic thought with two major paradoxes. The so-called cost of sex implies that through production of males a sexually reproducing species may reduce its natural rate of increase by as much as 50% in comparison with an asexually reproducing but otherwise similar clone, while the so-called cost of meiosis implies that for each generation individual genotypes are broken and reshuffled with more or less randomly chosen genetic material from other individuals belonging to the same species. If it is taken as axiomatic that natural selection is a phenomenon operating solely at the level of the individual, these two paradoxes become very hard to resolve when at the same time it has to be explained why the vast majority of species in nature reproduce sexually (Williams 1975; Maynard Smith 1978; Bell 1982, 1985).

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  1. Institute of Population Biology, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen 0, Denmark

    H. Noer

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  1. Department of Population and Evolutionary Biology, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, NL-3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Gerdina de Jong

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Noer, H. (1988). Clonal Niche Organization in Triploid Parthenogenetic Trichoniscus pusillus: A Comparison of Two Kinds of Microevolutionary Events. In: de Jong, G. (eds) Population Genetics and Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73069-6_20

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