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The Ecology of Altruism in a Clonal Insect

  • Pike N
  • Foster W
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2008), 37-56
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75957-7_2
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Abstract Social aphids are an ideal animal group in which to demonstrate the relative importance of ecological versus genetic factors in the evolution of sociality for several reasons:(1) Since aphids are clonal, the genetics of a colony is starkly simple (the aphids are either from the same clone or they are not) and, in principle, easy to measure;(2) Because good phylogeni es are available for several aphid taxa and there is clear ...

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Pike, N., & Foster, W. A. (2008). The Ecology of Altruism in a Clonal Insect. In Ecology of Social Evolution (pp. 37–56). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75957-7_2

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