Asexuality and polyploidy in Daphnia from the tropical Andes

• Main Authors: Ximena Aguilera, Joachim Mergeay, An Wollebrants, Steven Declerck, Luc De Meester
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Kon
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.507.8412; http://www.aslo.org/lo/pdf/vol_52/issue_5/2079.pdf

We assessed genetic variation at microsatellite loci within and among populations of the planktonic crustacean Daphnia pulex in 12 Bolivian Andean lakes, located above 4,000 m above sea level. Genetic analyses show that all populations consisted of obligately asexual lineages, a fact that was confir...