Selection on insect immunity in the wild

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1553, 2004, Pages 2157-2160

  Rolff, Jens ^a   Siva Jothy, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calopteryx xanthostoma; Ecological immunology; Phenoloxidase; Positive selection

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

IMMUNITY; INSECT; PARASITISM; SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CALOPTERYX XANTHOSTOMA; FORELIMB; GENETIC SELECTION; IMMUNITY; INSECT; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; REPRODUCTION; RIVER;

CALOPTERYX XANTHOSTOMA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA; ZYGOPTERA;

ANIMALS; FRANCE; INSECTS; MALE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OBSERVATION; PIGMENTATION; REPRODUCTION; RIVERS; SELECTION (GENETICS); WING;

EID: 16544385826     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2859     Document Type: Article

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