A successful crayfish invader is capable of facultative parthenogenesis: A novel reproductive mode in decapod crustaceans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Buřič, Miloš ^a   Hulák, Martin ^a   Kouba, Antonín ^a   Petrusek, Adam ^b   Kozák, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAYFISH; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; ORCONECTES LIMOSUS; PARTHENOGENESIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROGENY; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ASTACOIDEA; CAMBARIDAE; CRUSTACEA; ORCONECTES LIMOSUS;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FEMALE; MALE; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 79957950350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020281     Document Type: Article

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