Male age, host effects and the weak expression or non-expression of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila strains infected by maternally transmitted Wolbachia

Genetical Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 79-87

  Reynolds, K Tracy ^a   Hoffmann, Ary A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG; FEMALE; GENETIC COMPATIBILITY; HATCHING; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; RICKETTSIALES; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; CYTOPLASM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MALE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0036775547     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672302005827     Document Type: Article

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