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The genetic basis of male fertility in relation to haplodiploid reproduction in Leptopilina clavipes (Hymenoptera: Figitidae).
Genetics - 1 Sept 2004
Pannebakker Bart A, Beukeboom Leo W, van Alphen Jacques J M, Brakefield Paul M, Zwaan Bas J
Abstract excerpt
Traits under relaxed selection are expected to become reduced or disappear completely, a process called vestigialization. In parthenogenetic populations, traits historically involved in sexual reproduction are no longer under selection and potentially subject to such reduction. In Leptopilina clavipes, thelytokous (parthenogenetic) populations are infected by Wolbachia bacteria. Arrhenotokous populations do not...
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