Speculate on why asexually producing species' nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies tend to be more congruent than nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies in sexually re-producing species?
a. Asexual populations consist of only females.
b. Asexual populations do not experience population bottlenecks as often as sexual ones.
c. The effective population size of mitochondrial DNA in sexual populations is higher than that of nuclear genes.
d. Males and females in sexual populations always have different dispersal patterns.
A
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