Wolbachia dynamics and host effects: What has (and has not) been demonstrated?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 257-262

  Weeks, Andrew R ^a   Tracy Reynolds, K ^b   Hoffmann, Ary A ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ENDOPARASITE; EVOLUTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTION; FEMINIZATION; HOST; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPERM COMPETITION; WOLBACHIA;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0036603965     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02480-1     Document Type: Review

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