Genetic signatures of occasional sex in parthenogenetic subpopulations of the freshwater planarian Schmidtea polychroa

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1890-1900

  D'Souza, Thomas G ^a   Michiels, Nico K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution of sex; Genetic diversity; Microsatellites; Platyhelminthes; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

FLATWORM; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; PARTHENOGENESIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SUBPOPULATION;

DUGESIA (TURBELLARIAN); PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHMIDTEA; SCHMIDTEA POLYCHROA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 33748747118     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01622.x     Document Type: Article

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