Reproductive Plasticity in the Nematode Gyrinicola batrachiensis: Does an Intermediate Reproductive Strategy Exist in Sexually Reproducing, Didelphic Pinworms?

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Phenotypic plasticity is a process in which multiple phenotypes arise from 1 genotype because of environmental selection pressures. Gyrinicola batrachiensis has a heterogeneous reproductive strategy such that females reproduce either via parthogenesis with thick-shelled eggs in a single uterus or sexual reproduction with thick- and thin-shelled eggs in separate uterine horns. No evidence exists that strains of G....

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