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Stress and fitness in parthenogens: is dormancy a key feature for bdelloid rotifers?

BACKGROUND: Bdelloid rotifers are the most common and abundant group of animals that reproduce by ameiotic parthenogenesis, only. They are common in temporally ephemeral habitats, and it is unclear if they dwell in unstable habitats because are excluded from better conditions by stronger competitors...

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Autores principales: Ricci, Claudia, Caprioli, Manuela, Fontaneto, Diego
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central|1 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1963474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17767737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-S2-S9