Explaining the coexistence of asexuals with their sexual progenitors: No evidence for general-purpose genotypes in obligate parthenogens of the peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1091-1098

  Vorburger, Christoph ^a   Sunnucks, Paul ^a   Ward, Seamus A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aphid; Cyclical parthenogenesis; General purpose genotype hypothesis; Host plant; Myzus persicae; Obligate parthenogenesis

Indexed keywords

APHID; COEXISTENCE; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; HOST PLANT; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

APHIDIDAE; HEMIPTERA; MYZUS; MYZUS PERSICAE; PRUNUS PERSICA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0346104942     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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