Equal fecundity in asexual and sexual mollies (Poecilia)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-206

  Schlupp, Ingo ^a,c   Taebel Hellwig, Angelika ^a   Tobler, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexual; Fecundity; Poeciliid; Recombination

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; PARTHENOGENESIS; RECOMBINATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; TELEOST;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA FORMOSA; POECILIA LATIPINNA; POECILIA MEXICANA; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 77951768531     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-010-9630-0     Document Type: Article

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