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Female adult of the water flea Daphnia magna.
Daphnia magna is a freshwater crustacean. Normal, healthy populations are entirely parthenogenetic female. However, decline in environmental quality of the habitat leads to the clonal production of males, which allows sexual reproduction. This is known as environmental sex determination (see Kato et al., 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001345).
Image Credit: Hajime Watanabe
Citation: (2011) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 7(3) March 2011. PLoS Genet 7(3): ev07.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v07.i03
Published: March 31, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Watanabe. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Daphnia magna is a freshwater crustacean. Normal, healthy populations are entirely parthenogenetic female. However, decline in environmental quality of the habitat leads to the clonal production of males, which allows sexual reproduction. This is known as environmental sex determination (see Kato et al., 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001345).
Image Credit: Hajime Watanabe