Wolbachia infections and arthropod reproduction: Wolbachia can cause cytoplasmic incompatibility parthenogenesis, and feminization in many arthropods

BioScience

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 287-293

  Bourtzis, Kostas ^a,b   O'Neill, Scott ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

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Indexed keywords

WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0031947242     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313355     Document Type: Review

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