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- Title
A Tetraploid Amazon Molly, Poecilia formosa.
- Authors
Lampert, Kathrin P.; Lamatsch, Dunja K.; Fischer, Petra; Schartl, Manfred
- Abstract
Polyploidization is thought to be an important driving force in evolution as it increases the genetic material on which mutation and selection can act. In the Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, triploid genotypes can be found in the field and frequently arise from diploid breeding stocks, a tetraploid individual, however, was so far never documented. Here, we report the first tetraploid Amazon molly. Flow cytometry clearly showed the tetraploid DNA content, whereas microsatellite analysis not only confirmed the tetraploidy but also pointed to allotetraploidy. Most likely the fourth genome was received through paternal leakage, namely, by fertilization of a triploid egg with a haploid sperm. The existence of tetraploid individuals offers new explanations for the enormous clonal diversity observed in wild populations of P. formosa.
- Subjects
BIOLOGICAL evolution; GENETIC mutation; CYTOMETRY; DNA; FERTILIZATION (Biology)
- Publication
Journal of Heredity, 2008, Vol 99, Issue 2, p223
- ISSN
0022-1503
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhered/esm102