The unstable 'clone': evidence from monitoring AFLP-based mutations for short-term clonal genetic variation in two asexual lineages of the grain aphid, Sitobion avenae (F.).

Abstract excerpt

Clones have been in the forefront of biological interest for many years. Even so, open discussions continue to surround the concept of clonality, which has been recently much debated in the scientific literature, both in terms of philosophical meaning as well as empirical determination. Philosophically, the clone is the horizontally produced lineage from a single fertlized egg (e.g. mammals by division of the...

Topics

• Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
• Animals
• Aphids
• Female
• Genes, Insect
• Genotype
• Mutation
• Parthenogenesis
• Phylogeny
• Polymorphism, Genetic