The Paradox of the White Worker: Studies in Race Formation

1992 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Noel Ignatiev ◽  
Alexander Saxton ◽  
David Roediger
Keyword(s):  
White Worker ◽  
Race Formation

Incipient habitat race formation in an amphibian

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Van Buskirk
Keyword(s):  
Race Formation

scholarly journals POPULATION GENETIC CONSEQUENCES OF FEEDING HABITS IN SOME FOREST LEPIDOPTERA

Genetics ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 1005-1021
Author(s):  
Charles Mitter ◽  
Douglas J Futuyma
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Environmental Heterogeneity ◽  
Feeding Habits ◽  
Functional Relation ◽  
Allozyme Variation ◽  
Unexpected Result ◽  
Polymorphic Loci ◽  
Allozyme Loci ◽  
Race Formation ◽  
Relationship Of

ABSTRACT By surveying variation at allozyme loci in several phytophagous lepidopteran species (Geometridae), we have tested two hypotheses about the relationship of genetic variation to environmental heterogeneity: (1) that allozyme polymorphisms may exist because of associations between genotypes and "niches" (different host plants, in this instance), and (2) that the overall genetic variation of a species is correlated with environmental heterogeneity (or breadth of the species' overall ecological niche) .—Genetic differentiation among samples of oligophagous or polyphagous species taken from different host species was observed in one of three species, at only one of seven polymorphic loci. The data thus provide no evidence for pronounced genetic sub-structuring, or "host race" formation in these sexually reproducing species, although host plant-genotype associations in a parthenogenetic moth give evidence of the potential for diversifying selection.—In a comparison of allozyme variation in polyphagous ("generalized") and oligophagous ("specialized") species, heterozygosity appeared to be higher in specialized species, at all polymorphic loci but one. I t is possible that this unexpected result arises from a functional relation between breadth of diet and genetic variation.

scholarly journals The Eggplant Beetle on a Leguminous Weed: Host Race Formation in Progress?

Tropics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 115-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takayoshi NISHIDA ◽  
Liliek E. PUDJIASTUT ◽  
Susumu NAKANO ◽  
Idrus ABBAS ◽  
Sih KAHONO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Host Race ◽  
Weed Host ◽  
Host Race Formation ◽  
Race Formation
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