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Article: Report summarizes science study findings from Shizuoka University.(Report)
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- August 4, 2009
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"Periodical cicadas are well known for their prime-numbered life cycles (17 and 13 years) and their mass periodical emergences. The origination and persistence of prime-numbered cycles are explained by the hybridization hypothesis on the basis of their lower likelihood of hybridization with other cycles," researchers in Hamamatsu, Japan report (see also Science).
"Recently, we showed by using an integer-based numerical model that prime-numbered cycles are indeed selected for among 10- to 20-year cycles. Here, we develop a real-number-based model to investigate the factors affecting the selection of prime-numbered cycles. We include an Allee effect in our model, ...
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