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ArticleComparative cytogenetics2013

Meiosis in rare males in parthenogenetic Cacopsylla myrtilli (Wagner, 1947) (Hemiptera, Psyllidae) populations from northern Europe.

Christina Nokkala, Valentina G Kuznetsova, Seppo Nokkala

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Article in Comparative cytogenetics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Christina NokkalaLaboratory of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Turku, FI-20014, Turku Finland.
Valentina G Kuznetsova
Seppo Nokkala

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For studying meiosis in males, large samples of Cacopsylla myrtilli (Wagner, 1947) (Hemiptera, Psyllidae) were collected in Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwest Russia. In addition to all-female populations, males were present in 10 out of 47 populations; still, all populations were highly female-biased, the proportion of males varying from 0.1% to 9.1%. These males are thus rare or so-called spanandric males. Males in northern Norway, Finland and northwest Russia showed normal chiasmate meiosis, while complete absence of chiasmata due to asynapsis was found in males collected in Norway and northern Sweden. In asynaptic meiosis, all univalent chromosomes divided during the first meiotic division resulting in incomplete second meiotic division and formation of diploid sperms. Hence, males in these populations are nonfunctional and do not contribute to the genetic constitution of the population, but appear in every generation as reversals from apomictic parthenogenesis and the mode of parthenogenesis is of obligatory type.

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asynaptic meiosisCacopsylla myrtillinonfunctional malesparthenogenesisspanandric males

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PMID24260704
PMCPMC3833741

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