Infectious parthenogenesis

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6783, 2000, Pages 178-179

  Hulgens, M E ^a   Luck, R F ^b   Klaassen, R H G ^a   Maas, M F P M ^a   Timmermans, M J T N ^a   Stouthamer, R ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; PARASITISM; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; FEMALE; LARVA; OVUM; PARTHENOGENESIS; WASPS; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYMENOPTERA; VESPIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0034636576     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35012066     Document Type: Article

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