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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Fishes > Smegmamorpha > Cyprinodontiformes > Poecilia

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Poecilia  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Lebistes
  • Mollies
  • Molly

Note

  • NIM when experimental animal

Scope note

  • A genus of livebearing cyprinodont fish comprising the guppy and molly. Some species are virtually all female and depend on sperm from other species to stimulate egg development. Poecilia is used in carcinogenicity studies as well as neurologic and physiologic research.

History note

  • 91(87); was see under CYPRINODONTIFORMES 1987-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011036

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