Accelerated mutation accumulation in asexual lineages of a freshwater snail

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 954-963

  Neiman, Maurine ^a   Hehman, Gery ^a   Miller, Joseph T ^a,b   Logsdon, John M ^a   Taylor, Douglas R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexual; Hill Robertson; MtDNA; Muller's ratchet; Parthenogenetic; Potamopyrgus antipodarum; Sex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; FRESHWATER SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MUTATION RATE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM; SEXUALITY; SNAIL; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SNAILS;

EID: 77951224715     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp300     Document Type: Article

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