General Objectives

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Our general objective is to understand underlying causality of observed patterns in the transition from sexuality to asexuality, and the maintenance of asexual lineages, using Eucypris virens as a unique model organism

1. To identify proximate mechanisms determining reproductive mode in non-marine Ostracoda
2. To test for the predicted genetic and genomic consequences of long-term asexuality and to consider mechanisms that might alleviate their effects
3. To determine dynamic genetic cohesiveness of a species with mixed reproduction.
4. To determine how different reproductive modes can coexist and how asexual lineages can persist.
5. To link extant distribution patterns of reproductive modes, such as geographical parthenogenesis, to historical and evolutionary causality.

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