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Stability and variation in aphid clonal lineages
Article first published online: 14 JAN 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1979.tb00038.x
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BLACKMAN, R. L. (1979), Stability and variation in aphid clonal lineages. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 11: 259–277. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1979.tb00038.x
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- Issue published online: 14 JAN 2008
- Article first published online: 14 JAN 2008
- Accepted for publication July 1978
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Keywords:
- aphid;
- apomixis;
- endomeiosis;
- parthenogenesis;
- recombination;
- mutation;
- variation;
- polymorphism;
- position effect;
- Myzus persicae;
- Acyrthosiphon pisum
Evidence in the literature purporting to show genetic variability within parthenogenetic lines of aphids is reviewed. The results of three experimental approaches to this problem are reported: (1) a long term study of fluctuation in alate morph production in six lines of Myzus persicae; (2) an attempt tp select for caudal hair form in Acyrthosiphon pisum; (3) a study of the inheritance of esterase variants of M. persicae in sexual and parthenogenetic reproduction. It is concluded that genetic recombination during parthenogenesis is not the general rule in diese aphids, and that aphid parthenogenesis should be regarded as of ameiotic or apomictic type. Possible alternative explanations for the different kinds of variation or apparent variation which occur within aphid clonal lineages are discussed.