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IMPROVEMENT OF THE SEX-RATIO OF A PARASITE BY SELECTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

F. J. Simmonds
F. J. Simmonds
Affiliation:
Imperial Parasite Service, Belleville, Ontario.
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It is a well known fact, noticed by many workers engaged in breeding hymenopterous parasites, that there is a tendency in many bisexual species for the sex-ratio to decrease as the breeding work proceeds over a series of generations. In a number of cases the sex-ratio decreases to an extent where only males are produced, and the stock dies out.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , March 1947 , pp. 41 - 44
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1947

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LITERATURE CITED

McClure, H. E. 1933. Unusual variation in the life cycle of the male of Aenoplex carpocupsae Cush., codlin moth parasite. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., 26: 345–347.CrossRefGoogle Scholar