InhaltsangabeAsex and Evolution: A Very Large-Scale Overview.- The Evolution of the Problem of Sex.- Apomixis: Basics for Non-botanists.- Cytology of Asexual Animals.- A Graphical Approach to Lineage Selection Between Clonals and Sexuals.- Geographical Parthenogenesis: General Purpose Genotypes and Frozen Niche Variation.- Sex and the Red Queen.- Geographical Parthenogenesis: Opportunities for Asexuality.- The Elusive Clone - In Search of Its True Nature and Identity.- Asexual Speciation.- Darwinulid Ostracods: Ancient Asexual Scandals or Scandalous Gossip?.- Parthenogenesis in Oribatid Mites (Acari, Oribatida): Evolution Without Sex.- Bdelloid Rotifers: Progress in Understanding the Success of an Evolutionary Scandal.- Sex Loss in Monogonont Rotifers.- Cyclical Parthenogenesis in Daphnia: Sexual Versus Asexual Reproduction.- Metasexual Stick Insects: Model Pathways to Losing Sex and Bringing It Back.- Thelytoky in Hymenoptera with Venturia canescens and Leptopilina clavipes as Case Studies.- Sex in Parthenogenetic Planarians: Phylogenetic Relic or Evolutionary Resurrection?.- Sperm-Dependent Parthenogenesis and Hybridogenesis in Teleost Fishes.- Masked Damage: Mutational Load in Hemiclonal Water Frogs.- Lost Sex in the Reptiles: Constraints and Correlations.- An Apomixis-Gene's View on Dandelions.- Allelic Sequence Divergence in the Apomictic Boechera holboellii Complex.- Asexual Reproduction in Infectious Diseases.- What's in a Clone: The Rapid Evolution of Aphid Asexual Lineages in Relation to Geography, Host Plant Adaptation and Resistance to Pesticides.- Epigenetic Mechanisms in Mammals and Their Effects on Cloning Procedures.- Grapevine (Vitis ssp.): Example of Clonal Reproduction in Agricultural Important Plants.