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Free keywords:
allozyme; clonal diversity; Dugesia; hybridization; planarian;
pseudogamous parthenogenesis
Genetic identity; poeciliopsis; populations; clones;
poeciliidae; evolution; diversity; mode
Abstract:
In Dugesia polychroa, a hermaphroditic planarian, diploid sexual and polyploid pseudogamous parthenogenetic forms exist in separate populations and in sympatry. Parthenogens produce viable, haploid sperm that are exchanged between two individuals during