The effect of life cycle stage and genotype on desiccation tolerance in the colonizing parthenogenetic cockroach Pycnoscelus surinamensis and its sexual ancestor P. indicus

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 479-493

  Gade, B ^a   Parker Jr , E D ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Colonizing species; Desiccation tolerance; General purpose genotypes; Geographic parthenogenesis; Pycnoscelus cockroaches

Indexed keywords

PYCNOSCELUS INDICUS; PYCNOSCELUS SURINAMENSIS; DICTYOPTERA;

COCKROACH; DESICCATION TOLERANCE; GENOTYPE; LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 0030612861     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000360050037     Document Type: Article

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