Asexual reproduction and molecular systematics of the sea anemone Anthopleura krebsi (Actiniaria: Actiniidae)

 

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Autoři: Braga Gomes, Paula, Zamponi, Mauricio Oscar, Solé-Cava, Antonio Mateo
Médium: artículo original
Stav:Versión publicada
Datum vydání:2003
Popis:In this paper we use allozyme analyses to demonstrate that individuals in Anthopleura krebsi aggregates are monoclonal. Additionally, sympatric samples of the red and the green colour-morphs of A. krebsi from Pernambuco, Brazil were genetically compared and no significant differences were observed between them (gene identity= 0.992), indicating that they do not belong to different biological species. All individuals within aggregates of the green colour-morph were found to be identical over the five polymorphic loci analysed. Such results would be extremely unlikely (P<10-11) if the individuals analysed had been generated through sexual reproduction, thus confirming the presence of asexual reproduction in this species.
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Instituce:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Jazyk:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/15642
On-line přístup:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/15642
Klíčové slovo:cnidaria
allozymes
clones
fission
molecular systematics