Abandoning sex: Multiple origins of asexuality in the ciliate Tetrahymena

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Doerder, F Paul ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amicronucleate; Asexual; Barcode; Evolution; Macronuclear assortment; Muller's ratchet; Natural populations; Putative new species

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CILIATE; CYTOCHROME; MUTATION; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; DNA, PROTOZOAN; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 84902078428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-112     Document Type: Article

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