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Population genomics of sexual and asexual lineages in fissiparous ribbon worms (Lineus, Nemertea): hybridization, polyploidy and the Meselson effect

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Defying Muller’s Ratchet: Ancient Heritable Endobacteria Escape Extinction through Retention of Recombination and Genome Plasticity

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The effect of hybridization on fish physiology, immunity and blood biochemistry: A case study in hybridizing Cyprinus carpio and Carassius gibelio (Cyprinidae)

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Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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Distinguishing between Incomplete Lineage Sorting and Genomic Introgressions: Complete Fixation of Allospecific Mitochondrial DNA in a Sexually Reproducing Fish (Cobitis; Teleostei), despite Clonal Reproduction of Hybrids

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LET US NOT BE UNFAIR TO ASEXUALS: THEIR EPHEMERALITY MAY BE EXPLAINED BY NEUTRAL MODELS WITHOUT INVOKING ANY EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINTS OF ASEXUALITY

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New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

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Morphological Relationships Between Polyploid Hybrid Spined Loaches of the GenusCobitis(Teleostei: Cobitidae) and their Parental Species

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Accelerated Mutation Accumulation in Asexual Lineages of a Freshwater Snail

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Estimating the Rate of Adaptive Molecular Evolution in the Presence of Slightly Deleterious Mutations and Population Size Change

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Mutational Meltdown in Primary Endosymbionts: Selection Limits Muller's Ratchet

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Twigs on the tree of life? Neutral and selective models for integrating macroevolutionary patterns with microevolutionary processes in the analysis of asexuality

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