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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...
Autores principales: | Uka, Daisuke, Takahashi-Nakaguchi, Azusa, Yoshimura, Jin, Iwabuchi, Kikuo |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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