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Kin Recognition in a Clonal Fish, Poecilia formosa.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Makowicz Amber M, Tiedemann Ralph, Steele Rachel N, Schlupp Ingo
Abstract excerpt
Relatedness strongly influences social behaviors in a wide variety of species. For most species, the highest typical degree of relatedness is between full siblings with 50% shared genes. However, this is poorly understood in species with unusually high relatedness between individuals: clonal organisms. Although there has been some investigation into clonal invertebrates and yeast, nothing is known about kin...
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