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Temporal habitat variability and the maintenance of sex in host populations of the pea aphid.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Nov 2006
Frantz Adrien, Plantegenest Manuel, Simon Jean-Christophe
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary maintenance of sex, despite competition from asexual reproduction, has long intrigued the evolutionary biologists owing to its numerous apparent short-term costs. In aphids, winter climate is expected to determine the maintenance of sexual lineages in the high latitude zones owing to their exclusive ability to produce frost-resistant eggs. However, diverse reproductive modes may coexist at a...
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