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Genetic and morphological variation in sexual and asexual parasitoids of the genus Lysiphlebus – an apparent link between wing shape and reproductive mode

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Title
Genetic and morphological variation in sexual and asexual parasitoids of the genus Lysiphlebus – an apparent link between wing shape and reproductive mode
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, February 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0293-5
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Andjeljko Petrović, Milana Mitrović, Ana Ivanović, Vladimir Žikić, Nickolas G Kavallieratos, Petr Starý, Ana Mitrovski Bogdanović, Željko Tomanović, Christoph Vorburger

Abstract

Morphological divergence often increases with phylogenetic distance, thus making morphology taxonomically informative. However, transitions to asexual reproduction may complicate this relationship because asexual lineages capture and freeze parts of the phenotypic variation of the sexual populations from which they derive. Parasitoid wasps belonging to the genus Lysiphlebus Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) are composed of over 20 species that exploit over a hundred species of aphid hosts, including many important agricultural pests. Within Lysiphlebus, two genetically and morphologically well-defined species groups are recognised: the "fabarum" and the "testaceipes" groups. Yet within each group, sexual as well as asexual lineages occur, and in L. fabarum different morphs of unknown origin and status have been recognised. In this study, we selected a broad sample of specimens from the genus Lysiphlebus to explore the relationship between genetic divergence, reproductive mode and morphological variation in wing size and shape (quantified by geometric morphometrics).

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Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
France 1 2%
Unknown 54 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 21%
Student > Master 9 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Professor 3 5%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 8 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 40 70%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 5%
Environmental Science 3 5%
Psychology 1 2%
Materials Science 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 9 16%
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