The sex ratio distortion in the human head louse is conserved over time

BMC Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Perotti, M Alejandra ^a   Catalá, Silvia S ^b   del V Ormeño, Analía ^b   Zelazowska, Monika ^c   Biliński, Szczepan M ^c   Braig, Henk R ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Transferencia Tecnologia   (Argentina)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAEMATOPINUS SUIS; HUMAN; LOUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMATOPINUS SUIS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS CAPITIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; SUS SCROFA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

EID: 25444434669     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-5-10     Document Type: Article

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