Is polyploidy a persevering accident or an adaptive evolutionary pattern? The case of the brine shrimp Artemia

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 353-364

  Maniatsi, Stefania ^a   Baxevanis, Athanasios D ^a   Kappas, Ilias ^a   Deligiannidis, Panagiotis ^b   Triantafyllidis, Alexander ^a   Papakostas, Spiros ^a   Bougiouklis, Dimitrios ^b   Abatzopoulos, Theodore J ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b LIAISON Stem Cell Banking   (Greece)

Author keywords

Asexuality; Flow cytometry; Geographic parthenogenesis; Life history strategy; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY;

ARTEMIA;

EID: 79951580739     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.029     Document Type: Article

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