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Population genetics of wood-feeding cockroaches in the genus Cryptocercus.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Aldrich B T, Kambhampati S, Krafsur E S
Abstract excerpt
Members of the genus Cryptocercus are xylophagous, wingless, subsocial cockroaches that inhabit decaying logs in temperate forests. Given their winglessness, subsocial living, and the patchy distribution of food resources (decomposing logs), it is likely that Cryptocercus populations are substructured. Allozyme variation at eight polymorphic loci was assayed for 10 subpopulations of Cryptocercus darwini and 13...
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