| environmentally related patterns of reproductive modes in the aphid myzus persicae and the predominance of two 'superclones' in victoria, australia. | asexual organisms that naturally coexist with sexual relatives may hold the key to understanding the maintenance of sex and recombination, a long-standing problem in evolutionary biology. this situation applies to the peach-potato aphid, myzus persicae, in southeastern australia where cyclical parthenogens form mixed populations with obligate parthenogens. we collected m. persicae from several areas across victoria, genotyped them at seven microsatellite loci and experimentally determined their ... | 2003 | 14629364 |