Rotifers dry up and blow away to escape the Red Queen

Anciently Asexual Bdelloid Rotifers Escape Lethal Fungal Parasites by Drying Up and Blowing Away. — Wilson and Sherman explore a mechanism that asexual rotifers may utilize (dessication and aeolian dispersal) to escape the Red Queen model’s problem of coevolved pathogens/parasites in asexual lineages.

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