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TitleBDELLOID ROTIFERS IN DOMINICAN AMBER - EVIDENCE FOR PARTHENOGENETIC CONTINUITY
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1992
AuthorsPoinar, GO, Ricci, C
JournalExperientia
Volume48
Pagination408-410
Type of ArticleJournal Article
ISSN0014-4754
Abstract

Recently discovered representatives of the Class Bdelloidea from Tertiary amber from the Dominican Republic represent the oldest known fossils of the Phylum Rotifera. Assuming that the fossil bdelloids had a similar mode of reproduction as present day members of the Class (apomictic thelytoky), then contrary to current thought, some lines of parthenogenetic organisms are not doomed to an early extinction and have evolved built-in mechanisms for genetic diversity.
URL<Go to ISI>://WOS:A1992HT78800021
DOI10.1007/bf01923444