Polyploid insects.
Author of the article:LI Shao-Wen
Author's Workplace：(College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China).
Key Words：polyploid; insects; parthenogenesis
Abstract：Polyploid insects exist in several main insect orders but is exceedingly rare, less than one hundred. Polyploid insects are in gereral flightless and sluggish, reproduce parthenogenentically. In general polyploid parthenogenetic form has a very wide distr