Evolution in a putatively ancient asexual aphid lineage: Recombination and rapid karyotype change

Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1458-1469

  Normark, Benjamin B ^a,b,c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anholocycly; Apomixis; Covert sex; Cryptic sex; Myrmecophily; Parthenogenesis; Protrama

Indexed keywords

APHID; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTION;

APHIDIDAE; APHIDOIDEA; HEMIPTERA; HOMOPTERA; LACHNIDAE; PROTRAMA; TRAMA;

EID: 0032717533     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1999.tb05410.x     Document Type: Article

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