How can sex ratio distorters reach extreme prevalences? Male-killing Wolbachia are not suppressed and have near-perfect vertical transmission efficiency in Acraea encedon

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2290-2295

  Jiggins, Francis M ^a   Randerson, James P ^b   Hurst, Gregory D D ^c   Majerus, Michael E N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acraea encedon; Male killer; Mate choice; Paradox of the lek; Population dynamics; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LEK; MALE-KILLING; MATE CHOICE; PARASITE PREVALENCE;

ACRAEA; ACRAEA ENCEDON; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 2342617140     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00152.x     Document Type: Article

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