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Reproductive Isolation in the Cryptic Species Complex of a Key Pest: Analysis of Mating and Rejection Behaviour of Onion Thrips (Thrips tabaci Lindeman)

Biology, 2022
Thrips tabaci Lindeman is a serious pest of various cultivated plants, with three, distinct lineages within a cryptic species complex. Despite the well-known significance of this pest, many attributes of these lineages are not yet fully understood ...
Kristóf Domonkos Király, Márta Ladányi, József Fail   +2 more
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Sexual conflict as a constraint on asexual reproduction: an empirical review. [PDF]

Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
ABSTRACT Theory predicts that facultatively asexual animals, which can leverage the advantages of both sexual and asexual reproduction, should outcompete obligately sexual and obligately asexual animals. Yet, paradoxically, obligate sexual reproduction predominates in many animal lineages, while the most flexible form of facultative asexuality (i.e ...
Wilner D, Bonduriansky R, Burke NW.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Thelytokous parthenogenesis in the fungus-gardening ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
The general prevalence of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction among organisms testifies to the evolutionary benefits of recombination, such as accelerated adaptation to changing environments and elimination of deleterious mutations.
Christian Rabeling, José Lino-Neto, Simone C Cappellari, Iracenir A Dos-Santos, Ulrich G Mueller, Maurício Bacci   +5 more
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Thelytokous Reproduction of Onion Thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman 1889, Infesting Welsh Onion and Genetic Variation among Their Subpopulations

Insects, 2022
Parthenogenesis is not uncommon in thrips. This asexual reproduction produces males (arrhenotokous) or female (thelytokous). Only females are found in the onion thrips (Thrips tabaci Lindeman 1889) infesting Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum) in several ...
Falguni Khan, Miltan Chandra Roy, Yonggyun Kim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Control of reproductive dominance by thethelytokygene in honeybees [PDF]

Biology Letters, 2007
Differentiation into castes and reproductive division of labour are a characteristics of eusocial insects. Caste determination occurs at an early stage of larval development in social bees and is achieved via differential nutrition irrespective of the genotype.
Lattorff, H. Michael G., Moritz, Robin F.A., Crewe, Robin M., Solignac, M.   +3 more
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Cytogenetic basis of thelytoky in Apis mellifera capensis [PDF]

Apidologie, 2017
Haplodiploid insects reproduce both sexually and asexually; haploid males arise from unfertilized eggs, while diploid females arise from fertilized eggs. Some species can also produce female offspring by thelytokous parthenogenesis. For example, queenless workers of the Cape honey bee, Apis mellifera capensis, of South Africa can produce diploid female
Cole-Clark, Miles P., Barton, Deborah A., Allsopp, Michael H., Beekman, Madeleine, Gloag, Rosalyn S., Wossler, Theresa C., Ronai, Isobel, Smith, Nicholas, Reid, Rebecca J., Oldroyd, Benjamin P.   +9 more
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Thelytokous Diglyphus wani: A more promising biological control agent against agromyzid leafminers than its arrhenotokous counterpart

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2023
Diglyphus wani (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is a dominant parasitoid that attacks agromyzid leafminers. Two reproductive types occur in D. wani: arrhenotoky (in which virgin females produce only male offspring; and virgin females mate with males to produce ...
Su-jie DU, Fu-yu YE, Shi-yun XU, Wei-jie WAN, Jian-yang GUO, Nian-wan YANG, Wan-xue LIU   +6 more
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The Existence of Deuterotokous Reproduction Mode in the T. tabaci (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) Cryptic Species Complex

Journal of Horticultural Research, 2020
The present study aimed to investigate whether adult males could fertilize immature female pupae in the leek (L1) and tobacco-associated (T) Thrips tabaci lineages and to investigate the potential effects of mother to son inbreeding on the appearance of ...
Woldemelak Wondimagegn Atilaw
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Soft selection reduces loss of heterozygosity in asexual reproduction

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 36, Issue 9, Page 1313-1327, September 2023., 2023
Competition among offspring promotes the types of asexual reproduction that produce offspring with variation in loss of complementation. Abstract The adaptive value of sexual reproduction is still debated in evolutionary theory. It has been proposed that the advantage of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction is to promote genetic diversity, to ...
Marco Archetti
wiley   +1 more source

The kin selection theory of genomic imprinting and modes of reproduction in the eusocial Hymenoptera

Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 2, Page 677-695, April 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Genomic imprinting is known from flowering plants and mammals but has not been confirmed for the Hymenoptera even though the eusocial Hymenoptera are prime candidates for this peculiar form of gene expression. Here, the kin selection theory of genomic imprinting is reviewed and applied to the eusocial Hymenoptera.
Jack da Silva
wiley   +1 more source