Loss of sexual reproduction and dwarfing in a small metazoan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Stelzer, Claus Peter ^a   Schmidt, Johanna ^a   Wiedlroither, Anneliese ^a   Riss, Simone ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRACHIONUS CALCIFLORUS; CHEMOREACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DWARFISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; INHERITANCE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OBLIGATE PARTHENOGENESIS; PARTHENOGENESIS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PLOIDY; RECESSIVE GENE; ROTIFERA; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; GENETICS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; DWARFISM; FEMALE; MALE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PEDIGREE; PLOIDIES; REPRODUCTION; ROTIFERA;

EID: 77958454283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012854     Document Type: Article

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