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EVIDENCE FOR OBLIGATORY PARTHENOGENESIS AND ITS POSSIBLE EFFECT ON THE EMERGENCE PERIOD OF CLOEON TRIANGULIFER (EPHEMEROPTERA: BAETIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

K. Elizabeth Gibbs
K. Elizabeth Gibbs
Affiliation:
Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec
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Abstract

The absence of males in 1000 adults examined over a 2 year period, the facility with which unmated females deposited eggs, and the high percentage (86%) of these eggs which hatched are presented as evidence for obligatory parthenogenesis in Cloeon triangulifer McDunnough. It is suggested that the unusually long (June to November) emergence period of the species is a result of parthenogenesis.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 109 , Issue 3 , March 1977 , pp. 337 - 340
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1977

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