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All-male hybrids of a tetrapod Pelophylax esculentus share its origin and genetics of maintenance.
Biology of sex differences - 2 Apr 2018
Doležálková-Kaštánková Marie, Pruvost Nicolas B M, Plötner Jörg, Reyer Heinz-Ulrich, Janko Karel, Choleva Lukáš
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BACKGROUND: Sexual parasites offer unique insights into the reproduction of unisexual and sexual populations. Because unisexuality is almost exclusively linked to the female sex, most studies addressed host-parasite dynamics in populations where sperm-dependent females dominate. Pelophylax water frogs from Central Europe include hybrids of both sexes, collectively named P. esculentus. They live syntopically with...
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