FUNCTIONLESS MALES IN TWO SPECIES OFNEUROTERUS

1 February 1928

journal article
research article
Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin

Vol. 54 (2) , 196-200
https://doi.org/10.2307/1537128

Abstract

The discovery of a few [male] in the agamic generation of 2 species of the Cynipidae (N. contortus (Weld) and N. rileyi (Bassett)) is reported. Tests on the behavior of these [male] demonstrate that they are functionless. The interpretation is made that such aberrant [male] represent a remnant of a more primitive, bisexual condition in the generation which has now become agamic.

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