High fecundity of hybrids between the sympatric snail species Viviparus ater and V. contectus (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)

Heredity

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 418-423

  Trüb, Hans ^a   Ribi, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Haldane's rule; Hybrid fecundity; Introgression; Species barriers

Indexed keywords

BACKCROSS; FECUNDITY; HYBRID; SNAIL;

GASTROPODA; PROSOBRANCHIA; VIVIPARUS ATER; VIVIPARUS CONTECTUS;

EID: 0030868957     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1997.176     Document Type: Article

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