Template:Did you know nominations/Adineta ricciae
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 20:36, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Adineta ricciae
[edit]- ... that the rotifer Adineta ricciae gave up sex about 80 million years ago?
- Reviewed: Nils Arntzen Ramm
Created/expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self nom at 14:10, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
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- Article brand new, 3195 characters
- Cites sources inline, sources appear to be reliable
- Interesting, brief hook, confirmed in multiple sources
- Only image is properly licensed
- QPQ completed
- I will soon check source-article integrity and copyvio. Chris857 (talk) 21:09, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
- AGF on sources unavailable to me
- The sources seem to match the article pretty well broadly checking
- Paraphrase concern: "generating genetic diversity in the absence of sexual reproduction" is present in our article and the BBC article. Could we reword this?
- Changed to "becoming genetically diverse even though not exchanging genes through sexual reproduction" Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:22, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
- Chris857 (talk) 01:23, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
