A bacterial symbiont in the Bacteroidetes induces cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitoid wasp Encarsia pergandiella

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1529, 2003, Pages 2185-2190

  Hunter, Martha S ^a   Perlman, Steve J ^a   Kelly, Suzanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphelinidae; CFB group; Hymenoptera; Male killing; Parthenogenesis; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIUM; INCOMPATIBILITY; PARASITOID; PARTHENOGENESIS; SYMBIONT; WASP;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCARSIA PERGANDIELLA; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYMBIONT; WASP;

ACARI; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; APHELINIDAE; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; BREVIPALPUS; ENCARSIA; ENCARSIA PERGANDIELLA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; NEGIBACTERIA; VESPIDAE; VESPOIDEA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0142105965     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2475     Document Type: Article

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