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The Genome of the Self-Fertilizing Mangrove Rivulus Fish, Kryptolebias marmoratus: A Model for Studying Phenotypic Plasticity and Adaptations to Extreme Environments.
Genome biology and evolution - 16 Aug 2016
Kelley Joanna L, Yee Muh-Ching, Brown Anthony P, Richardson Rhea R, Tatarenkov Andrey, Lee Clarence C, Harkins Timothy T, Bustamante Carlos D, Earley Ryan L
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The mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus) is one of two preferentially self-fertilizing hermaphroditic vertebrates. This mode of reproduction makes mangrove rivulus an important model for evolutionary and biomedical studies because long periods of self-fertilization result in naturally homozygous genotypes that can produce isogenic lineages without significant limitations associated with inbreeding...
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