Review. The origin and evolution of a unisexual hybrid: Poecilia formosa

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1505, 2008, Pages 2901-2909

  Lampert, K P ^a,b   Schartl, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amazon molly; B chromosome; Hybridization; Microchromosome; Paternal introgression; Polyploidy

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CLONAL GROWTH; CYPRINID; EVOLUTION; HYBRID; INTROGRESSION; LITERATURE REVIEW; POLYPLOIDY; RECOGNITION;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA FORMOSA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; POECILIA; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 48749104210     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0040     Document Type: Review

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