• DOI:10.1007/s002650100347
Corpus ID: 38152512

A fully reproductive fighting morph in a soldier clade of gall-inducing thrips (Oncothrips morrisi)

@article{Kranz2001AFR,
  title={A fully reproductive fighting morph in a soldier clade of gall-inducing thrips (Oncothrips morrisi)},
  author={B. Kranz and M. Schwarz and T. E. Wills and T. Chapman and D. C. Morris and B. Crespi},
  journal={Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology},
  year={2001},
  volume={50},
  pages={151-161}
}

B. Kranz, M. Schwarz, +3 authors B. Crespi

Published 2001

Biology

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Abstract. We present the first life history data for Oncothrips morrisi, a species in a clade of haplodiploid, Australian gall-inducing thrips that has a micropteran fighting morph in the first generation of the gall. Micropterans in other species in the clade have lower fecundity than their mother, and these species are considered eusocial. There is no such reproductive skew in O. morrisi, and the species is not eusocial by any definition. The volume of O. morrisi galls is between 4 and 20… CONTINUE READING

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