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Science 26 February 1982:
Vol. 215. no. 4536, pp. 1133 - 1134
DOI: 10.1126/science.215.4536.1133
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Maternally Inherited Sex Ratio in the Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis

SAMUEL W. SKINNER 1

1 Department of Biology, University of Utahi Salt Lake City 84112

Facultative control of the sex ratio has been reported in the wasp Nasonia vitripennis. In a newly wild-eaught strain, females produced few or no male offspring and did not show the usual alterations of sex ratio in response to external conditions. The aberrant trait is inherited through females.

Submitted on July 20, 1981
Revised on October 24, 1981


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