Many aphid species exhibit a variation in reproductive mode which is influenced by winter climate regimes,with cyclical parthenogenetic (CP)lines dominating in cold winter areas (because they produce cold-resistant eg...
supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(Nos.100082 and 16086209)from the Ministry of Science;Culture,Sports and Education,Japan(MH and MM)and from PRESTO,Japan Science and Technology Corporation(KK).
Certain freshwater planarians reproduce asexually as well as sexually,and their chromosomal ploidies include polyploidy,aneuploidy and mixoploidy.Previously,we successfully performed an experiment in which a clonal po...