Thelytokous parthenogenesis in eusocial hymenoptera

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2013, Pages 273-292

  Rabeling, Christian ^a   Kronauer, Daniel J C ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

apomixis; arrhenotoky; automixis; clonality; sex determination; thelytoky

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APOMIXIS; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HYMENOPTERA; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOMIXIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HYMENOPTERA; PARTHENOGENESIS;

EID: 84873843046     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120811-153710     Document Type: Review

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