Horizontal transfer of Wolbachia between phylogenetically distant insect species by a naturally occurring mechanism

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 313-316

  Heath, Benjamin D ^a   Butcher, Robert D J ^a   Whitfield, William G F ^a   Hubbard, Stephen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LEPTOPILINA BOULARDI; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; WOLBACHIA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; INSECTA; LEPTOPILINA BOULARDI; VESPIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0033602395     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80139-0     Document Type: Article

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