Going solo: Discovery of the first parthenogenetic gordiid (nematomorpha: Gordiida)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hanelt, Ben ^a   Bolek, Matthew G ^b   Schmidt Rhaesa, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MATING; MICROSCOPY; NEMATOMORPHA; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PARAGORDIUS OBAMAI; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PYROSEQUENCING; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HELMINTHS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; PARTHENOGENESIS;

EID: 84859982570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034472     Document Type: Article

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