Wolbachia as a possible means of driving genes into populations

Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages

  Curtis, C F ^a   Sinkins, S P ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Culex; Cytoplasmic inheritance; Genetic control; Immigration; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULEX; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA CONTROL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; CULICIDAE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALARIA; MALE; SPERMATOCYTES; SYMBIOSIS;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; RICKETTSIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0031835851     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000084997     Document Type: Article

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