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ON the south-eastern coasts of southern Africa, there occurs a species of Convoluta which shows the rare phenomenon of asexual reproduction by architomy or scissiparity.
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MARCUS, E., MACNAE, W. Architomy in a Species of Convoluta . Nature 173, 130 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173130a0
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