Maintenance and loss of heterozygosity in a thelytokous lineage of honey bees (apis mellifera capensis)

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1897-1906

  Goudie, Frances ^a   Allsopp, Michael H ^b   Beekman, Madeleine ^a   Oxley, Peter R ^a   Lim, Julianne ^a   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera capensis; Asexual; Paradox of sex; Parthenogenesis; Thelytoky

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HONEYBEE; PARTHENOGENESIS; RECOMBINATION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX DETERMINATION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS;

ANIMALS; BEES; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

APIS MELLIFERA; APIS MELLIFERA SCUTELLATA;

EID: 84861660335     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01543.x     Document Type: Article

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