Post-reproductive parthenogenetic pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) are visually identifiable and disproportionately positioned distally to clonal colonies

The role of kin-selection in the evolution of post-reproductive life is controversial. While anthropological and demographic studies strongly suggest that humans and a few other species experience kin selection for significant post-reproductive survival, these results are necessarily correlational....

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Main Authors: Saberski, Erik T., Diamond, Julia Daisy, Henneman, Nathaniel Fath, Levitis, Daniel A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5088610/