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Exploring the relationship between tychoparthenogenesis and inbreeding depression in the Desert Locust, #Schistocerca gregaria#

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Little C., Chapuis M.P., Blondin L., Chapuis E., Jourdan H.
2017

Tychoparthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction in which a small proportion of unfertilized eggs can hatch spontaneously, could be an intermediate evolutionary link in the transition from sexual to parthenogenetic reproduction. The lower fitness of tychoparthenogenetic offspring could be due to either developmental constraints or to inbreeding depression in more homozygous individuals. We ...

Physiologie animale : reproduction

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