Yukio Yasui

The twofold cost of sex reconsidered: Meiotic mechanisms protect anisogamous populations from invasion by thelytoky

Most multicellular animals practice anisogamy (fertilization between eggs and sperm). When mothers produce sons and daughters at a 1:1 ratio, the "twofold cost of males" arises because males do not directly contribute to population growth. If thelytokous parthenogens producing on...