Invasion of an asexual American water flea clone throughout Africa and rapid displacement of a native sibling species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1603, 2006, Pages 2839-2844

  Mergeay, Joachim ^a   Verschuren, Dirk ^b   De Meester, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Daphnia pulex; extinction; Paleogenetics; Parthenogenesis; Sex

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CLONE; CRUSTACEAN; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATIVE SPECIES; PARTHENOGENESIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SIBLING;

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HYBRID; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; LAKE NAIVASHA; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA PULEX; DAPHNIA PULICARIA;

EID: 33751119291     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3661     Document Type: Article

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