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Diploid males support a two-step mechanism of endosymbiont-induced thelytoky in a parasitoid wasp.
BMC evolutionary biology - 12 May 2015
Ma Wen-Juan, Pannebakker Bart A, van de Zande Louis, Schwander Tanja, Wertheim Bregje, Beukeboom Leo W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Haplodiploidy, where females develop from diploid, fertilized eggs and males from haploid, unfertilized eggs, is abundant in some insect lineages. Some species in these lineages reproduce by thelytoky that is caused by infection with endosymbionts: infected females lay haploid eggs that undergo diploidization and develop into females, while males are very rare or absent. It is generally assumed that...
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