Selfish element maintains sex in natural populations of a parasitoid wasp

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1467, 2001, Pages 617-622

  Stouthamer, R ^a   Van Tilborg, M ^a   De Jong, J H ^a   Nunney, L ^a   Luck, R F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

B chromosome; Parthenogenesis; Paternal sex ratio; Sex ratio distorters; Trichogramma; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PARASITOID; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOME; MALE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; WASP; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA KAYKAI; VESPIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0035932295     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1404     Document Type: Article

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