For this assignment go to the reading Room and download the following paper:
Pires, M and Reznick, D (2018) Life-history evolution in the fish genus Poecilia
(Poeciliidae: Cyprinodontiformes: subgenus Pamphorichthys): an evolutionary
origin of extensive matrotrophy decoupled from superfetation. Biological Journal
of the Linnean Society, 125:3, 1–14
- Define each of the following terms:
a. matrotrophy
b. adelphophagy
c. oophagy
d. trophodermy
e. placentotophy
f. monophyletic
g. polyphyletic
h. clade - Create an outline for the Discussion of this paper.
- What is the hypothesis (or hypotheses) being tested?
- Alphabetically list the journal articles (author and year) cited in this
Introduction. - What is the total number of citations (without repeats) in this Introduction?
- What is the oldest citation? What is the newest citation?
- List the species names that appear in this Introduction, sorted by Class.
- There are five paragraphs in this Introduction. How does each of these
paragraphs relate to the hypothesis you stated above.
Sample Solution
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