Male soldiers are functional in the Japanese strain of a polyembryonic wasp

Polyembryonic parasitoids clonally produce sterile soldier larvae in both sexes. Female soldier larvae of Copidosoma floridanum defend their siblings and host resources against heterospecific competitors as well as conspecific male embryos that results in female biased sex ratios. However, the male...

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Autores principales: Uka, Daisuke, Takahashi-Nakaguchi, Azusa, Yoshimura, Jin, Iwabuchi, Kikuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3727076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23896894
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02312

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3727076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23896894
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02312

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