Sex–linked inheritance of host–plant specialization in a polyphagous butterfly
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Sex-linked inheritance of host-plant specialization in a polyphagous butter ̄y
I investigated the genetic background of intraspeci¢c variation in oviposition speci¢city in the generalist butter£y Polygonia c-album. Using reciprocal crosses between two populations that di¡er in their degree of specialization, I show that speci¢city is strongly sex-linked. This indicates that genes determining this di¡erence are located primarily on the paternally inherited X-chromosome. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0487