New insights on facultative parthenogenesis in pythons

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 461-468

  Booth, Warren ^a,b,c   Schuett, Gordon W ^b,c,d   Ridgway, Annice ^a   Buxton, Devin W ^a   Castoe, Todd A ^e   Bastone, Giuseppe ^f   Bennett, Charles ^g   Mcmahan, William ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b The Copperhead Institute   (United States)

^c Chiricahua Desert Museum   (United States)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^g NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Malayopython reticulatus; Microsatellite genotyping; Python bivitattus; Python regius; Reptilia; Serpentes; Terminal fusion automixis

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; CLONE; FACULTATIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC MARKER; PARTHENOGENESIS; SNAKE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BOIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES; PYTHON MOLURUS; PYTHON REGIUS; PYTHONIDAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84902544375     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12286     Document Type: Article

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