Paternal sex in parthenogenetic planarians: A tool to investigate the accumulation of deleterious mutations

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Storhas, M ^a,b   Weinzierl, R P ^a   Michiels, N K ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embryo mortality; Hermaphrodite; Mutation accumulation; Parthenogenesis; Planarian; Schmidtea; Sperm degeneration

Indexed keywords

CLONE; CROSSING; EMBRYO MORTALITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; INHERITANCE; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX; SPERMATOZOON;

SCHMIDTEA POLYCHROA;

EID: 0033972582     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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