Large population size predicts the distribution of asexuality in scale insects

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 196-206

  Ross, Laura ^a,b   Hardy, Nate B ^c   Okusu, Akiko ^a   Normark, Benjamin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

General purpose genotype; Parthenogenesis; Polyphagy; Population size; Scale insects

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CROP PEST; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION RISK; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HEMIPTERA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION;

COCCOIDEA; HEMIPTERA;

EID: 84871979959     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01784.x     Document Type: Article

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