Ultrastructure meets reproductive success: Performance of a sphecid wasp is correlated with the fine structure of the flight-muscle mitochondria

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1516, 2003, Pages 749-754

  Strohm, Erhard ^a   Daniels, Wiltrud ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density of inner mitochondrial membranes; Flight muscle; Sphecidae; Variation in reproductive success

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

FLIGHT; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; WASP;

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLIGHT MUSCLE; GENE MUTATION; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT CELL; LARVA; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WASP;

APIS MELLIFERA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PHILANTHUS; PHILANTHUS TRIANGULUM; SPHECIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0037425027     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2282     Document Type: Article

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