Sex-ratio-distorting Wolbachia causes sex-role reversal in its butterfly host

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1438, 2000, Pages 69-73

  Jiggins, Francis M ^a   Hurst, Gregory D D ^b   Majerus, Michael E N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Female lekking swarms; Male killers; Selfish genetic elements; Sex role reversal; Sexual selection; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BUTTERFLY; LEK; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATING; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WOLBACHIA;

ACRAEA; ACRAEA ENCEDANA; ACRAEA ENCEDON; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0013661205     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0968     Document Type: Article

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