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Molecular markers and evolutionary processes in hermaphrodite freshwater snails

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Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications

Part of the book series: Experientia Supplementum ((EXS,volume 69))

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Polyploidy and its genetical, ecological, and evolutionary consequences in hermaphrodites have predominantly been studied in vascular plants, but the condition also occurs in animals, such as freshwater pulmonate snails (Basommatophora). Representatives of this group have been preserved in fossil deposits, but the paucity and plasticity of morphological characters does not allow the events of hybridization and polyploidization to be traced in the ancestry of extant taxa. Drawing on our studies of the European stream limpet, Ancylus fluviatilis, we highlight the facility of allozyme and RAPD fingerprint data to unravel the genetic structure, historic hybridizations, and mating system parameters, and discuss the emerging similarities to evolutionary processes well documented for vascular plants.

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Streit, B., Städler, T., Kuhn, K., Loew, M., Brauer, M., Schierwater, B. (1994). Molecular markers and evolutionary processes in hermaphrodite freshwater snails. In: Schierwater, B., Streit, B., Wagner, G.P., DeSalle, R. (eds) Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications. Experientia Supplementum, vol 69. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7527-1_14

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