Insights into species divergence and the evolution of hermaphroditism from fertile interspecies hybrids of Caenorhabditis nematodes

Genetics

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 997-1012

  Woodruff, Gavin C ^a   Eke, Onyinyechi ^a   Baird, Scott E ^b   Félix, Marie Anne ^c   Haag, Eric S ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERMAPHRODITISM; HYBRID; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SELFING; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAENORHABDITIS; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GONADS; HOMOZYGOTE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; POLYPLOIDY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; NEMATODA;

EID: 78649248933     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.120550     Document Type: Article

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