Maintaining genetic diversity and population panmixia through dispersal and not gene flow in a holocyclic heteroecious aphid species.

doi:10.1038/hdy.2012.21

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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

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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 glycin...

Topics

Animals
Aphids
Female
Gene Flow
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Male
Microsatellite Repeats
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Reproduction
Rhamnus
Glycine max

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