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Genetic diversity and the phylogeography of parthenogenesis: comparing bisexual and thelytokous populations of Nemasoma varicorne (Diplopoda: Nemasomatidae) in Denmark.
Hereditas - 1 Jan 2002
Jensen Lone Hoy, Enghoff Henrik, Frydenberg Jane, Parker E Davis
Abstract excerpt
The millipede, Nemasoma varicorne, represents a textbook example of geographic parthenogenesis with thelytokous populations being distributed north, east, south and west of the distribution of the bisexual ancestor in the deciduous forests of central Europe. We here describe variation in amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLP's) in sympatric bisexual and thelytokous populations of N. varicorne in Denmark...
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