Natural variation of outcrossing in the hermaphroditic nematode Pristionchus pacificus

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Click, Arielle ^a   Savaliya, Chandni H ^a   Kienle, Simone ^b   Herrmann, Matthias ^a,b   Pires DaSilva, Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERMAPHRODITISM; HYBRID; MALE; MATING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; OUTCROSSING; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERM; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INBREEDING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONDISJUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON; TEMPERATURE; X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; INBREEDING; MALE; NEMATODA; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA; TEMPERATURE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 65449145196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-75     Document Type: Article

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