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March 2011

Daphnia magna is a freshwater crustacean. Normal, healthy populations are entirely parthenogenetic female. However, decline in environmental quality of the habitat leads to the clonal production of males, which allows sexual reproduction. This is known as environmental sex determination (see Kato et al., 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001345).

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Initial Mutations Direct Alternative Pathways of Protein Evolution

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Testing for an Unusual Distribution of Rare Variants

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Differential Genetic Associations for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Based on Anti–dsDNA Autoantibody Production

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