From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genus of stick insects
Acanthoxyla
[1] is a
genus of
stick insects in the family
Phasmatidae (tribe
Acanthoxylini ).
[1] All the individuals of the genus are female and
reproduce asexually by
parthenogenesis .
[2] However, a male
Acanthoxyla inermis was recently discovered in the UK, probably the result of chromosome loss.
[3] The genus is the result of interspecific
hybridisation
[4]
[5] resulting in some
triploid
[6] lineages and some
diploid
[7] lineages. The genus is endemic to New Zealand,
[8] but some species have been accidentally introduced elsewhere. The genus name Acanthoxyla translates from Greek as prickly stick (acantho = thorn; xyla = wood).
Species
The
Catalogue of Life lists:
[1]
See also
References
^
a
b
c Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. (eds) (2011). "
Acanthoxyla ". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, UK. Accessed 24 September 2012.
^
"Acanthoxyla Uvarov" . Landcare Research. Retrieved 29 January 2018 .
^ Brock, Paul (2018).
"Missing stickman found: the first male of the parthenogenetic New Zealand Phasmid genus Acanthoxyla Uvarov, 1944 discovered in the United Kingdom" . Atropos (60): 16–23.
^ Morgan-Richards, Mary; Trewick, Steven A. (2005).
"Hybrid origin of a parthenogenetic genus?" . Molecular Ecology . 14 (7): 2133–2142.
doi :
10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02575.x .
PMID
15910332 .
S2CID
29709325 .
^ Morgan-Richards, Mary; Hills, Simon F. K.; Biggs, Patrick J.; Trewick, Steven A. (2016). Budak, Hikmet (ed.).
"Sticky Genomes: Using NGS Evidence to Test Hybrid Speciation Hypotheses" . PLOS ONE . 11 (5): e0154911.
doi :
10.1371/journal.pone.0154911 .
ISSN
1932-6203 .
PMC
4871368 .
PMID
27187689 .
^ Buckley, Thomas R.; Attanayake, Dilini; Park, Duckchul; Ravindran, Shanthinie; Jewell, Tony R.; Normark, Benjamin B. (2008).
"Investigating hybridization in the parthenogenetic New Zealand stick insect Acanthoxyla (Phasmatodea) using single-copy nuclear loci" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 48 (1): 335–349.
doi :
10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.016 .
ISSN
1055-7903 .
PMID
18367411 .
^ Myers, Shelley S.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2013). Boomsma, Jacobus; Brad, Sean (eds.).
"Multiple lines of evidence suggest mosaic polyploidy in the hybrid parthenogenetic stick insect lineage Acanthoxyla" . Insect Conservation and Diversity . 6 (4): 537–548.
doi :
10.1111/icad.12008 .
S2CID
59932320 .
^ Salmon, John (1991). The Stick Insects of New Zealand . Singapore: Reed.
ISBN
0790002116 .
External links