Wolbachia transmission in a naturally bi-infected Drosophila simulans strain from New-Caledonia

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-103

  Merçot, Hervé ^a   Poinsot, Denis ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic incompatibility; Drosophila simulans; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; INFECTION RATE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

NEW CALEDONIA; NOUMEA;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0031937098     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1998.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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