Genetics of the butterfly Danaus chrysippus (L.) in a broad hybrid zone, with special reference to sex ratio, polymorphism and intragenomic conflict

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-40

  Smith, David A S ^a   Gordon, Ian J ^b   Depew, Lorna A ^c   Owen, Denis F ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Kipepeo Project   (Kenya)

^c East Africa Natural History Society   (Kenya)

^d OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allopatric evolution; Meiotic drive; Non Mendelian inheritance; Nuclear cytoplasmic incompatibility; Pleistocene; Polytypism; Sperm displacement; Thelygeny

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; AUTOSOME; BACKCROSSING; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYBRID; INSECT GENETICS; INTROGRESSION; MEIOSIS; SEX RATIO; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

BUTTERFLY; GENETICS; HYBRID ZONE; POLYMORPHISM; SEX RATIO;

DANAIDEA; DANAINAE; DANAUS CHRYSIPPUS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0031685440     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0240     Document Type: Article

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