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Maintaining genetic diversity and population panmixia through dispersal and not gene flow in a holocyclic heteroecious aphid species.
Heredity - 1 Aug 2012
Orantes L C, Zhang W, Mian M A R, Michel A P
Abstract excerpt
Heteroecious holocyclic aphids exhibit both sexual and asexual reproduction and alternate among primary and secondary hosts. Most of these aphids can feed on several related hosts, and invasions to new habitats may limit the number of suitable hosts. For example, the aphid specialist Aphis glycines survives only on the primary host buckthorn (Rhamnus spp.) and the secondary host soybean (Glycine max) in North...
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