Virus-like particles, bacteria and microsporidia affect spindle-associated membranes in spermatocytes of Lepidoptera species

Zygote

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-30

  Wolf, Klaus Werner ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Meiosis; Parasites; Spermatogenesis; Spindle

Indexed keywords

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; ANIMALIA; EPHESTIA; KUEHNIELLA; LASIOCAMPIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MICROSPORIDIA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PYRALIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDA; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSPORIDA; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOTHS; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; VIRION;

EID: 0031063588     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S096719940000352X     Document Type: Article

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