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Diapause in the pea aphid involves a period of slow growth, the progression of which is temperature independent.
The conditions required to induce the production of sexual males and females has been established [ 8 9 ] . There has also been work on the influence of genetic background and the environment on the duration of egg development in different species and strains [ 10 11 ] . The most comprehensive study of aphid egg development, by Behrandt [ 12 ] , suggests that it constitutes three stages: (i) a temperature dependent period of initial development, (ii) a temperature independent 'diapause' followed by (iii) temperature dependent development.
For example, the highly conserved, host-controlled determination of aphid bacteriocytes (Braendle et al.
The Buchnera endosymbiont of the aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum has a genome of 643 kb [ 8], only one-seventh the size of the genome of E. coli MG1655 (4.
Once winter has commenced, diapause ends and the insect enters post-diapause quiescence, relying on persistent low temperatures to maintain developmental arrest [ 27 ] . This appears to be the case in A. pisum . The aphid clone used for the experiment would normally oviposit in mid-October, when the average daily temperature is 9°C with a maximum of 15°C [ 32 ] . By day 28 the embryos would be exposed to average daily temperatures of 3°C.