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Persistence of Mhc heterozygosity in homozygous clonal killifish, Rivulus marmoratus: implications for the origin of hermaphroditism.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2002
Sato Akie, Satta Yoko, Figueroa Felipe, Mayer Werner E, Zaleska-Rutczynska Zofia, Toyosawa Satoru, Travis Joseph, Klein Jan
Abstract excerpt
The mangrove killifish Rivulus marmoratus, a neotropical fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes, is the only known obligatorily selfing, synchronous hermaphroditic vertebrate. To shed light on its population structure and the origin of hermaphroditism, major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) class I genes of the killifish from seven different localities in Florida, Belize, and the Bahamas were cloned and sequenced....
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