Effect of self-fertilization on Biomphalaria tenagophila (Orbigny, 1835) (Pulmonata: Planorbidae)

  • Tuan, Roseli
  • Simões, Luiz Carlos Gomes
Publication date
December 1998
Publisher
Sociedade Brasileira de Genetica

Abstract

Biomphalaria tenagophila is a simultaneous hermaphrodite freshwater snail, which can breed by self and cross-fertilization. It is, therefore, well suited for studying reproduction as an evolutive strategy. Several characteristics (shell size and age at sexual maturity, egg fecundity and fertility) were analyzed in four consecutive self-fertilized generations and compared to cross-fertilized individuals. The reproductive parameters were similar in the two groups. Shell size was significantly greater in the fourth self-fertilized generation than in the cross-fertilized individuals.A Biomphalaria tenagophila é um caramujo hermafrodita simultâneo com potencial para a autofecundação e fecundação cruzada. É portanto, um excelente objeto de estudo...

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