Evolution of asexual Daphnia pulex in Japan: variations and covariations of the digestive, morphological and life history traits
Abstract Background Several genetic lineages of obligate parthenogenetic Daphnia pulex, a common zooplankton species, have invaded Japan from North America. Among these, a lineage named JPN1 is thought to have started colonization as a single genotype several hundred to thousand years ago and subseq...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-06-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-019-1453-9 |