The origins of asexuality in plants as well as animals have long puzzled researchers. In article 2000111, Diego Hojsgaard and Manfred Schartl integrate old ideas with recent molecular and genomic data and provide a single mechanistic model for this phenomenon. They highlight two usually overlooked conditions to understand the molecular nature of clonal organisms to explain asexuals' developmental diversity and biologically vague cases such as automixis and polyploidy.

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BioEssays 1/2021

植物和动物的无性起源长期困扰着研究人员。在文章2000111中，Diego Hojsgaard和Manfred Schartl将旧的思想与最新的分子和基因组数据相结合，并为这种现象提供了单一的机理模型。他们强调了两个通常被忽视的条件，以了解克隆生物的分子性质来解释无性恋者的发育多样性和生物学上模糊的情况，例如自体混合体和多倍体。