Evolution of trade-offs between sexual and asexual phases and the role of reproductive plasticity in the genetic architecture of aphid life histories

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2402-2412

  Nespolo, Roberto F ^a   Halkett, Fabien ^b   Figueroa, Christian C ^a   Plantegenest, Manuel ^c   Simon, Jean Christophe ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscape; Aphids; Cyclic parthenogenesis; G matrix; Life histories

Indexed keywords

APHID; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PARTHENOGENESIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SPECIALIZATION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; APHIDS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

APHIDIDAE; AVES; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI;

EID: 69249176165     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00706.x     Document Type: Article

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