Article
Molecular evidence for multiple origins of hybridogenetic fish clones (Poeciliidae:Poeciliopsis).
Genetics - 1 Feb 1991
Quattro J M, Avise J C, Vrijenhoek R C
Abstract excerpt
Hybrid matings between the sexual species Poeciliopsis monacha and Poeciliopsis lucida produced a series of diploid all-female lineages of P. monacha-lucida that inhabit the Río Fuerte of northwestern Mexico. Restriction site analyses of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) clearly revealed that P. monacha...
Topics
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- Cyprinodontiformes
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Diploidy
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Isoenzymes
- Male
- Phenotype
- Restriction Mapping