Asexual reproduction and molecular systematics of the sea anemone Anthopleura krebsi (Actiniaria: Actiniidae)
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| Författarna: | , , |
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| Materialtyp: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Utgivningstid: | 2003 |
| Beskrivning: | 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. |
| Land: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Organisation: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Språk: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/15642 |
| Länkar: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/15642 |
| Nyckelord: | cnidaria allozymes clones fission molecular systematics |