Male-killing Wolbachia in Drosophila: A temperature-sensitive trait with a threshold bacterial density

Genetics

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 699-709

  Hurst, Gregory D D ^a   Johnson, Alice P ^a   Schulenburg, J Hinrich G V D ^b   Fuyama, Yoshiaki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LARVA; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RIFAMPIN; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0033790281     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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