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Natural variation of male ornamental traits of the guppy, Poecilia reticulata.
Zebrafish - 1 Dec 2008
Tripathi Namita, Hoffmann Margarete, Dreyer Christine
Abstract excerpt
Male ornamental traits of the guppy, Poecilia reticulata, provide an outstanding example of natural variation in sex-linked male-advantageous traits that are shaped by both sexual and environmental selection. A substantial fraction of the underlying genes is known to be genetically linked to the sex-determining region on the differentiating Y-chromosome. Intercrosses between parental populations originating from...
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