You catalog all obligate asexual species within a family of insects and notice that asexual species are rare and are all members of genera that consist predominantly of sexual species. None of the genera consist exclusively of asexual species, and many of the asexual species have gone extinct. Your phylogenetic analysis shows that asexual species tend to be short "twigs" on the tree. What could you conclude from these results?

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The Answer of You catalog all obligate asexual species within a family of insects and notice that asexual species are rare and are all members of genera that consist predominantly of sexual species. None of the genera consist exclusively of asexual species, and many of the asexual species have gone extinct. Your phylogenetic analysis shows that asexual species tend to be short "twigs" on the tree. What could you conclude from these results?

You Catalog All Obligate Asexual Species Within a Family of Insects