Selected lines of Aedes aegypti with persistently distorted sex ratios

Heredity

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 388-393

  Owusu Daaku, Kofi Ohene ^a,b   Wood, Roger John ^a   Butler, Ronald Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Meiotic drive; Mosquito; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031260093     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1997.172     Document Type: Article

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