Variability of sexual organ possession rates and phylogenetic analyses of a parthenogeneticjapanese earthworm, Amynthas vittatus(Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae)

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-35

  Minamiya, Yukio ^a   Hayakawa, Hiroshi ^b   Ohga, Kyohei ^a   Shimano, Satoshi ^c   Ito, Masamichi T ^d   Fukuda, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d SURUGADAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

COI; Male pore; mtDNA; Parthenogenetic earthworms; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMYNTHAS VITTATUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EARTHWORM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPANESE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENITALIA; HAPLOTYPES; JAPAN; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMYNTHAS VITTATUS; ANIMALIA; MEGASCOLECIDAE;

EID: 79955637004     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: 18805779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.86.27     Document Type: Article

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