Article
Gene flow between sexual and facultatively asexual lineages of an aphid species and the maintenance of reproductive mode variation.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2008
Halkett F, Plantegenest M, Bonhomme J, Simon J-C
Abstract excerpt
Many organisms considered as strictly clonal may in fact experience some rare events of sexual reproduction with their sexual relatives. However, the rate of sexual-asexual gene flow has rarely been assessed mainly because its evaluation is difficult to achieve in the field. In the cyclically parthenogenetic aphid Rhopalosiphum padi, two main sets of lineages, differing in their investment in sexual reproduction...
Topics
- Animals
- Aphids
- Female
- Gene Flow
- Genetic Variation
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Models, Biological
- Phenotype
- Reproduction
- Reproduction, Asexual