Lost and found: The secret sex lives of bdelloid rotifers

Genetics

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 409-412

  Umen, James G ^a  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexuality; Meiosis; Oenothera

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BDELLOID ROTIFER; EVENING PRIMROSE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RING CHROMOSOME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TETRAPLOIDY; ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; ROTIFERA;

BDELLOIDA; OENOTHERA; ROTIFERA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; MITOCHONDRIA; ROTIFERA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84931462170     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.176388     Document Type: Note

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