The cytogenetics of thelytoky in a predominantly asexual parasitoid wasp with covert sex

Genome

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 170-173

  Belshaw, Robert ^a   Quicke, Donald L J ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphimixis; Aphidiinae; Arrhenotoky; Lysiphlebus; Parthenogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FEMALE; OVUM; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; WASPS; WOLBACHIA;

APHIDIINAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LYSIPHLEBUS; LYSIPHLEBUS FABARUM; VESPIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0037314442     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g02-112     Document Type: Article

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