The effects of a tsetse DNA virus infection on the functions of the male accessory reproductive gland in the host fly Glossina morsitans centralis (Diptera; Glossinidae)

Current Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 349-354

  Sang, Rosemary C ^a   Jura, Walter G Z O ^b   Otieno, Leonard H ^b   Mwangi, Richard W ^c   Ogaja, Peter ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VIRUS; FEMALE; GLOSSINA MORSITANS; HISTOLOGY; INSECT CONTROL; LARVA; MALE; MALE STERILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOGONIUM; TSETSE FLY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DNA VIRUSES; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; INSECT VIRUSES; INSEMINATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; TSETSE FLIES;

ARACHNIDA; DIPTERA; DNA VIRUSES; GLOSSINA (PROPER); GLOSSINA MORSITANS; GLOSSINA MORSITANS CENTRALIS; GLOSSINIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0032997652     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006815     Document Type: Article

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