A mixed-mating strategy in a hermaphroditic vertebrate.

Abstract excerpt

Mixed-mating systems, in which hermaphrodites can either self-fertilize or outcross, are common in many species of plants and invertebrates and have been informative models for studying the selective forces that can maintain both inbreeding and outbreeding in populations. Here, we document a remarkable instance of evolutionary convergence to an analogous mixed mating system by a vertebrate, the mangrove killifish...

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• Florida
• Genetic Variation
• Genotype
• Hermaphroditic Organisms
• Inbreeding
• Microsatellite Repeats