Publications of Hugh Loxdale

Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W.W.: Coevolutionary fine-tuning: evidence for genetic tracking between a specialist wasp parasitoid and its aphid host in a dual metapopulation interaction. Bulletin of Entomological Research 102, pp. 149 - 155 (2012)

Loxdale, H.; Lushai, G.; Harvey, J.A.: The evolutionary improbability of 'generalism' in nature, with special reference to insects. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 103, pp. 1 - 18 (2011)

Loxdale, H.; Massonnet, B.; Schöfl, G.; Weisser, W.W.: Evidence for a quiet revolution: seasonal variation in colonies of the specialist tansy aphid, Macrosiphoniella tanacetaria (Kaltenbach) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) studied using microsatellite markers. Bulletin of Entomological Research 101 (2), pp. 221 - 239 (2011)

Loxdale, H.; Schöfl, G.; Wiesner, K. R.; Nyabuga, F.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W. W.: Stay at home aphids: comparative spatial and seasonal metapopulation structure and dynamics of two specialist tansy aphid species studied using microsatellite markers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104 (4), pp. 838 - 865 (2011)

Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W.W.: Temporal genetic structuring of a specialist parasitoid, Lysiphlebus hirticornis Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) attacking a specialist aphid on tansy. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102 (4), pp. 737 - 749 (2011)

Loxdale, H.D.: Setting the scene... meeting up with Darwin and Wallace. Ecological Entomology 35 (s1), pp. 1 - 9 (2010)

Loxdale, H.D.: Rapid genetic changes in natural insect populations. Ecological Entomology 35 (s1), pp. 155 - 164 (2010)

Loxdale, H.D.; Massonnet, B.; Weisser, W. W.: Why are there so few aphid clones? Bulletin of Entomological Research 100 (5), pp. 613 - 622 (2010)

Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H.D.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W. W.: Spatial population dynamics of a specialist aphid parasitoid, Lysiphlebus hirticornis Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae): evidence for philopatry and restricted dispersal. Heredity 105, pp. 433 - 442 (2010)

Loxdale, H.D.; Balog, A.: Bela Bartok: Musician, musicologist, composer ... and entomologist! Antenna 33 (4), pp. 175 - 182 (2009)

Loxdale, H.D.; Kigathi, R.; Weisser, W. W.: Paucity of microsatellite genotypes (MLGs = 'clones') in tansy aphids. Redia - Giornale di Entomologia 92, pp. 51 - 56 (2009)

Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H. D.; Sharbel, T. F.; Todd, M.; Weisser, W. W.: Microsatellite marker isolation and characterisation from Lysiphlebus hirticornis Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiidae), a specialist primary parasitoid attacking the specialist tansy aphid, Metopeurum fuscoviride Stroyan (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Molecular Ecology Resources 9 (3), pp. 931 - 934 (2009)

Loxdale, H. D.: The nature and reality of the aphid clone - genetic variation, adaptation and evolution. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 10 (2), pp. 81 - 90 (2008)

Loxdale, H.D.: Was Dan Janzen (1977) right about aphid clones being a ‘super-organism’, i.e. a single ‘evolutionary individual’? New insights from the use of molecular marker systems. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Angewandte Entomologie 16, pp. 437 - 449 (2008)

Loxdale, H. D.: Big issues in population biology: lessons from a greenfly I. Antenna 31 (3), pp. 152 - 158 (2007)

Loxdale, H. D.: Big issues in population biology: lessons from a greenfly II. Antenna 31 (4), pp. 194 - 202 (2007)

Loxdale, H. D.: Big issues in population biology: lessons from a greenfly III. Antenna 32 (1), pp. 18 - 25 (2007)

Lushai, G.; Loxdale, H. D.: The potential role of chromosome telomere resetting consequent upon sex in the population dynamics of aphids: an hypothesis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 90 (4), pp. 719 - 728 (2007)

Loxdale, H.D.: What’s in a clone: The rapid evolution of aphid asexual lineages in relation to geography, host plant adaptation and resistance to pesticides. In: Lost Sex: The Biology of Parthenogenetic Organisms, pp. 535 - 557 (Eds. Schön, I.; Martens, K.; Van Dijk, P. J.). Springer Verlag, Berlin (2009)

Martens, K.; Loxdale, H. D.; Schön, I.: The elusive clone - in search of its true nature and identity. In: Lost Sex: The Biology of Parthenogenetic Organisms, pp. 187 - 200 (Eds. Schön, I.; Martens, K.; Van Dijk, P.J.). Springer Verlag, Berlin (2009)