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Evolution of reproductive mode variation and host associations in a sexual-asexual complex of aphid parasitoids.
BMC evolutionary biology - 1 Dec 2011
Sandrock Christoph, Schirrmeister Bettina E, Vorburger Christoph
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BACKGROUND: The Lysiphlebus fabarum group is a taxonomically poorly resolved complex of aphid parasitoids, presently split into three described species that comprise sexual (arrhenotokous) and asexual (thelytokous) lineages of unknown relationship. Specifically, it is unclear how asexuals evolved from sexuals in this system, to what extent reproductive modes are still connected by genetic exchange, how much the...
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