This volume explores the latest research techniques (and reviews) used to study apomixis model species. The chapters in this book are organized into six parts: Part One introduces gametophytic apomixis, and Part Two focuses on the detection and characterization of apomixis. Part Three talks about transcriptomic profiling of apomictic and sexual species, and Part Four covers genetic analysis of apomixis. Part Five is dedicated to research on model apomictic systems such as dandelion (Ta...

Sex is the queen of problems in evolutionary biology. Generations of researchers have investigated one of the last remaining evolutionary paradoxes: why sex exists at all. Given that sexual reproduction is costly from an evolutionary point of view, one could wonder why not all animals and plants reproduce asexually. Dozens of contemporary hypotheses attempt to explain the prevalence of sex and its advantages and predict the early extinction of fully asexual lineages.The major theme...