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Polyploidy versus endosymbionts in obligately thelytokous thrips.
BMC evolutionary biology - 22 Feb 2015
Nguyen Duong T, Spooner-Hart Robert N, Riegler Markus
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Thelytoky, the parthenogenetic development of females, has independently evolved in several insect orders yet the study of its mechanisms has so far mostly focussed on haplodiploid Hymenoptera, while alternative mechanisms of thelytoky such as polyploidy are far less understood. In haplodiploid insects, thelytoky can be encoded in their genomes, or induced by maternally inherited bacteria such as...
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