Recent and ancient asexuality in Timema walkingsticks

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1711-1717

  Law, Jennifer H ^a   Crespi, Bernard J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ancient asexuality; Phylogenetics; Walkingsticks

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMALIA; DIAPHEROMERA FEMORATA; INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA; PHASMATIDAE; TIMEMA; TIMEMA DOUGLASI; TIMEMA GENEVIEVE; TIMEMA MONIKENSIS; TIMEMA SHEPARDII; TIMEMA TAHOE;

EID: 0036694512     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb01484.x     Document Type: Article

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