Although clonal species are dominant in many habitats, from unicellular organisms to plants
and animals, ecological and particularly evolutionary studies on clonal species have been …

Investigating diversity in asexual organisms using molecular markers involves the
assignment of individuals to clonal lineages and the subsequent analysis of clonal diversity …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …

Microsatellites are powerful molecular markers, used commonly to estimate intraspecific
genetic distances. With the exception of band sharing similarity index, available distance …

In theory, females that reproduce asexually should enjoy a twofold advantage in fitness over
sexual females, yet sex remains the predominant mode of reproduction in virtually all …

Apomixis, the asexual production of seed, is a trait estimated to occur in fewer than 1% of
flowering plant species, with an uneven distribution among lineages. In the past decade …

Partially, clonal species are common in the Tree of Life. And yet, population genetic models
still mostly focus on the extremes: strictly sexual versus purely asexual reproduction. Here …

• Premise of the study: The evolution of asexual seed production (apomixis) from sexual
relatives is a great enigma of plant biology. The genus Boechera is ideal for studying …

Genetic variation within apomictic organisms, as a raw material for evolutionary change, has
been underestimated in the past. Here we present a review of population studies using …

Sources and implications of genetic diversity in agamic complexes are still under debate.
Population studies (amplified fragment length polymorphisms, microsatellites) and …