Convergent incidences of Wolbachia infection in fig wasp communities from two continents

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1561, 2005, Pages 421-429

  Haine, Eleanor R ^a,b   Cook, James M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fig wasps; Horizontal transmission; Incidence; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; CONVERGENCE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EVOLUTION; WASP;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIG; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WASP; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FICUS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AGAONIDAE; INSECTA; WOLBACHIA;

CYTOCHROME B; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; WSP PROTEIN, WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CYTOCHROMES B; FICUS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 16844379269     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2956     Document Type: Review

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