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Life cycle of the rotifer Brachionus sp. Cyclical parthenogens exhibit the full life cycle (asexual and sexual cycle). Obligate parthenogens lack all sexual stages (mictic females, males, and diapausing eggs) and are thus constrained to the asexual cycle (blue arrow).
