Diploid Amazon mollies (Poecilia formosa) show a higher fitness than triploids in clonal competition experiments

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 687-697

  Lamatsch, D K ^a,b   Lampert, K P ^a,c   Fischer, P ^a   Geiger, M ^d   Schlupp, I ^e   Schartl, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d MPI for Behavioural Physiology   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal reproduction; Gynogenesis; Host species; Paternal leakage; Polyploidy; Sperm dependent parthenogenesis

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; CYPRINID; FITNESS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GENE; GENOME; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROSIS; NICHE PARTITIONING; PARTHENOGENESIS; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPERM;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA FORMOSA;

EID: 70350712907     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-008-9264-2     Document Type: Article

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