Evolution: How Not to Detect a Brood Parasite.

Lyon, Bruce E; Zink, Andrew G

Lyon, Bruce E; Zink, Andrew G.

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Lyon BE; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Coastal Biology Building, 130 McAllister Way, University of California Santa Cruz, California 95060, USA. Electronic address: belyon@ucsc.edu.
Zink AG; Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, California 94132, USA.

Curr Biol ; 28(20): R1192-R1194, 2018 10 22.

Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30352187

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

An elegant study on social parasitism in digger wasps quantifies the costs and benefits of kin recognition and shows that recognizing non-kin comes at a cost. This supports 'Crozier's paradox' of why kin recognition genes are unlikely to evolve when rare alleles are selected against.

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Parásitos; Avispas; Alelos; Animales; Evolución Biológica

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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Parásitos / Avispas Límite: Animals Idioma: En Revista: Curr Biol Asunto de la revista: BIOLOGIA Año: 2018 Tipo del documento: Article

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