Sex ratio and Wolbachia infection in the ant Formica exsecta

Heredity

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 227-233

  Keller, Laurent ^a   Liautard, Cathy ^a   Reuter, Max ^a   Brown, William D ^a,b   Sundström, Lotta ^a,c   Chapuisat, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Division of Population Biology ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Formica exsecta; Host manipulation; Sex ratio; Virulence; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CYTOPLASMIC INHERITANCE; HOST; INSECT GENETICS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO;

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE-KILLING; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SEX RATIO; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX RATIO; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICA EXSECTA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0034777291     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2001.00918.x     Document Type: Article

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