Cyprinodontiformes
"Cyprinodontiformes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An order of fish with eight families and numerous species of both egg-laying and livebearing fish. Families include Cyprinodontidae (egg-laying KILLIFISHES;), FUNDULIDAEl; (topminnows), Goodeidae (Mexican livebearers), Jenynsiidae (jenynsiids), Poeciliidae (livebearers), Profundulidae (Middle American killifishes), Aplocheilidae, and Rivulidae (rivulines). In the family Poeciliidae, the guppy and molly belong to the genus POECILIA.
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D003532
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.493.850.280
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cyprinodontiformes" by people in Profiles.
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Cummings ME, Gelineau-Kattner R. The energetic costs of alternative male reproductive strategies in Xiphophorus nigrensis. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2009 Oct; 195(10):935-46.