Genetic variation in sexual and clonal lineages of a freshwater snail
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Wide variation in ploidy level and genome size in a New Zealand freshwater snail with coexisting sexual and asexual lineages.
Natural animal populations are rarely screened for ploidy-level variation at a scale that allows detection of potentially important aberrations of common ploidy patterns. This type of screening can be especially important for the many mixed sexual/asexual systems in which sexuals are presumed to be dioecious diploids and asexuals are assumed to be triploid and all-female. For example, elevation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0024-4066,1095-8312
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00181.x