Fitness effects and transmission routes of a microsporidian parasite infecting Drosophila and its parasitoids

Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 479-492

  Futerman, P H ^a   Layen, S J ^a   Kotzen, M L ^a   Franzen, C ^b   Kraaijeveld, A R ^a   Godfray, H C J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asobara tabida; Drosophila; Fitness costs; Microsporidian parasite; Pachycrepoideus vindemiae; Transmission; Tubulinosema kingi

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FERTILITY; GENE SEQUENCE; LABORATORY TEST; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APANSPOROBLASTINA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OVUM; PUPA; SPORES, FUNGAL; WASPS;

ASOBARA TABIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA; MICROSPORIDIA; PACHYCREPOIDEUS VINDEMIAE;

EID: 33644819260     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005009339     Document Type: Article

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