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Recent evolution of alternative reproductive modes in the 'living fossil' Triops cancriformis.
BMC evolutionary biology - 13 Sept 2007
Zierold Thorid, Hanfling Bernd, Gómez Africa
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Notostraca is a small but ancient crustacean order with a contrasting combination of a conservative morphology and a wide range of reproductive modes. The tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis, includes bisexual - the putatively ancestral state -, androdioecious and hermaphrodite populations. As hermaphroditism and androdioecy confer a colonisation advantage, we expect the postglacial colonisation of...
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