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Inbreeding and population structure in two pairs of cryptic fig wasp species.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2004
Molbo Drude, Machado Carlos A, Herre Edward Allen, Keller Laurent
Abstract excerpt
We used recently developed microsatellites to directly estimate inbreeding levels in two pairs of coexisting cryptic fig wasp species ('Pegoscapus hoffmeyeri sp. A and sp. B', 'P. gemellus sp. A and sp. B'). Previous tests of Hamilton's local mate competition (LMC) theory in fig wasps have used the number of dead foundresses in a fig fruit to indirectly estimate the relative contribution of each to the common...
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