Morphology, testes development and behaviour of unusual triploid males in microchromosome-carrying clones of Poecilia formosa

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1459-1487

  Lamatsch, D K ^a,b   Stock M ^c   Fuchs, R ^d   Dobler M ^a   Wacker, R ^a   Parzefall, J ^e   Schlupp, I ^f   Schartl, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonopodium; Histology; Sex determination; Sperm dependent parthenogenesis

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CLONING; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS; TRIPLOIDY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, ORGANISM; DNA; FEMALE; MALE; POECILIA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTIS; TRIPLOIDY;

POECILIA FORMOSA;

EID: 78449273944     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02766.x     Document Type: Article

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