The effect of ploidy level on fitness in parthenogenetic flatworms

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 191-198

  D'Souza, Thomas G ^a,b   Storhas, Martin ^a   Michiels, Nico K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clonal lineages; Coexistence; Interclonal variation; Microsatellites; Polyploidy; Reproduction; Schmidtea polychroa; Tetraploid; Triploid

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FITNESS; FLATWORM; POLYPLOIDY;

PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHMIDTEA POLYCHROA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 20444393466     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00482.x     Document Type: Article

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