Reproductive assurance drives transitions to self-fertilization in experimental caenorhabditis elegans

BMC Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Theologidis, Ioannis ^a,b   Chelo, Ivo M ^a   Goy, Christine ^a,c   Teotónio, Henrique ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b BENAKI PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c IUF LEIBNIZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Androdioecy; Caenorhabditis elegans; Evolutionary transition; Experimental evolution; Fitness; Fog 2; NaCl; Selfing; Xol 1

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITE; NONHUMAN; OUTCROSSING; PARASITE PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; PARASITE REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE ASSURANCE; SELF FERTILIZATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES INVASION; ALLELE; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FOG-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HELMINTH DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; POLLINATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SELF-FERTILIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84924341441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-014-0093-1     Document Type: Article

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