What ecological factors favor parthenogenesis over sexual reproduction? A study on the facultatively parthenogenetic mayfly Alainites muticus in natural populations.
M. Liegeois, M. Sartori, T. Schwander
The paper investigates ecological factors influencing parthenogenesis vs. sexual reproduction in mayflies, finding that mate limitation, not community diversity, drives female-biased sex ratios.
bioRxiv · Sep 10, 2021Evolutionary Biology